Evolution of early life artists concept. Diverse life forms may have evolved earlier than previously thought. Diverse microbial life existed on Earth at least 3.75 billion years ago, suggests a new… [+7750 chars]
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev, Expedition 40 flight engineer, attired in a Russian Orlan spacesuit, participates in a session of extravehicular activity (EVA) in support of science and maintenance … [+2852 chars]
On Mars, the Curiosity rover narrowly avoided colliding with some razor-sharp rocks. The robotic explorer, which landed on Mars over ten years ago, has spent the last month climbing Mount Sharps Gre… [+4461 chars]
Phase transitions, such as the boiling of water or the melting of a metal, are commonplace but fascinating phenomena that spur surprises decades after decades. They often occur as the temperature of … [+2396 chars]
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Kevin M. Gill Located 2.8 billion miles away from the Sun, Neptune is understandably chilly. But a new study shows that temperatures on the eighth planet from the Sun might b… [+3368 chars]
Scientist from the Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery (CIBD) of the Natural History Museum in Berlin, from the ZUSE-Institute Berlin and from the RWTH Aachen University have discovered a n… [+4698 chars]
A key instrument on Nasas James Webb Space Telescope that detects infrared light has fallen to its final operating temperature, just a few degrees above absolute zero. The Mid-Infrared Instrument (… [+2927 chars]
A team of researchers with members affiliated with MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, UCLA and Harvard University has found that a woman without a left temporal lobe developed a language network in the… [+2682 chars]
In chemistry, there are structures that are particularly stable, such as the so-called "benzene ring" consisting of six interconnected carbon atoms. Such rings form the structural basis for graphite … [+3578 chars]
image: Dr. Peter Schüffelgen (left) and Tobias Schmitt (right) in front of the NanoCluster at Forschungszentrum Jülich where core components of the hybrid qubit were fabricated in an ultra-high vacuu… [+3052 chars]
As the demand for nanodevices grows so too does the need to improve the functionality of such devices, which is vulnerable to changes in the charge distribution, energy levels or conformation. Hence … [+2577 chars]
In chemistry, there are structures that are particularly stable, such as the so-called "benzene ring" consisting of six interconnected carbon atoms. Such rings form the structural basis for graphite … [+3578 chars]
