View larger. | Using these images from the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 taken on January 8, 2022, astronomers confirmed the biggest comet yet discovered is headed to the inner solar s… [+5321 chars]
The amount of heat and moisture that atmospheric rivers transport is higher than it would be without global warming, Dr. Clem said. So the air mass that slams into Antarctica is much, much warmer. An… [+1606 chars]
A special form of light made using an ancient Namibian gemstone could be the key to new light-based quantum computers, which could solve long-held scientific mysteries, according to new research led … [+3000 chars]
A butterfly-shaped stellar nursery twinkles in red and orange in a beautiful photo recently released by NASA. The agency's Spitzer Space Telescope captured the image of the aptly named Butterfly N… [+2117 chars]
Scott Kelly, NASA From now until early July, the five nearest planets to Earth will slowly join a celestial conga line across the pre-dawn sky. These rare, but not once-in-a-lifetime conjunctions o… [+1815 chars]
A special form of light made using an ancient Namibian gemstone could be the key to new light-based quantum computers, which could solve long-held scientific mysteries, according to new research led … [+3000 chars]
Virtual travel to space is possible! Thanks to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which did it through what it calls the holoport. NASA virtually teleported a doctor hundreds o… [+2386 chars]
Similar to the widespread interest in graphite and diamond, there is growing interest in metastable phases, which have different physical properties than those of stable phases. However, processes to… [+3205 chars]
Air Date: Week of April 15, 2022 stream/download this segment as an MP3 file An artists rendering of the James Webb Space Telescope, with the multilayered sunshield stretched out beneath the observ… [+22988 chars]
image: Circadian rhythms of the phosphorylation cycle (red circle with P indicating the phosphor transfer) and the ATP hydrolysis cycle (blue circle with ATP and ADP indicating the conversion of Aden… [+4862 chars]
By Doug Norrie | 1 hour ago As we peer out into the cosmos, into the furthest reaches of the known (and even unknown) galaxies, it stands to reason that we will continue to new objects for the firs… [+2760 chars]
For all their death-defying abilities, one thing that tardigrades are pretty rubbish at is walking long distances, though new research suggests that the podgy little moss piglets may be able to overc… [+3316 chars]