NASA flight surgeon Dr. Josef Schmid gives a space greeting. (Nasa) Talking 'holograms' have long been a staple of science-fiction films such as Star Wars. Now a Nasa doctor has 'holoported' onto t… [+3066 chars]
A Cornell University research highlights a success in the attempt to boost photosynthesis in certain crops, a step toward adapting plants to rapid climate change and raising yields to feed the world'… [+3559 chars]
For the first time, scientists have found the ancestor of a supermassive black hole. The researchers identified a distant object with properties that lie between those of a galaxy and those of a so-… [+4654 chars]
Over a 17-year period, an international team of astronomers monitored Neptunes atmospheric temperatures. They discovered that Neptunes global temperatures dropped unexpectedly, followed by a dramatic… [+8068 chars]
Rydberg polaritons switch continually from light to matter and back again. In Rydberg polaritons, light and matter are like two sides of a coin, and the matter side is what makes polaritons interact … [+1585 chars]
This is a new step in the long hunt for the causes of biological aging. New, but not so new: the study published on April 13 in the journal Naturein reality, comes to validate “a hypothesis put forwa… [+2580 chars]
Fossils unearthed at Winton, in Queensland's central west, more than a decade ago have been officially identified as Australia's smallest sauropod.
ANU astrophysicist and cosmologist Dr Brad Tucker says the chances aliens will listen to and decode a radio message to the stars is “slim at best”. In 1974, American scientists sent the Arecibo mes… [+460 chars]
The fireball streaked above Shropshire last week. (Gareth Oakey, UK Meteor Network) A huge fireball that streaked across the sky last week may have left a meteorite somewhere in Shropshire, scientis… [+2183 chars]
The CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has performed the most accurate ever measurement of the mass of the top quarkthe heaviest known elementary particle. The latest CMS result est… [+3234 chars]
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has photographed a spiral galaxy 55 million light-years away from Earth and at its heart is a monster. NASA has taken to its blog and social channels to showcase an ima… [+975 chars]
The fireball streaked above Shropshire last week. (Gareth Oakey, UK Meteor Network) A huge fireball that streaked across the sky last week may have left a meteorite somewhere in Shropshire, scientis… [+2183 chars]
