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]
A Geiger counter, also known as the Geiger-Muller tube, is an inexpensive and useful instrument used to quickly detect and measure radiation. There are two types of radiation , non-ionizing and io… [+3793 chars]
Fossil trilobites. getty Five hundred million years ago, the oceans teemed with trillions of trilobites - an extinct group of marine arthropods ruling the seas for more than 270 million years. Over… [+2410 chars]
Europa's potential to support life may have increased thanks to geographic observations. Reutersnotes researchers have discovered similarities between double ridges on the Jovian moon's surface and s… [+1040 chars]
The hottest rock ever recorded on Earth has been confirmed to have originated from a huge meteorite impact some 36 million years ago. Scientists say the fist-sized piece of black glass was formed in… [+4530 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]
The planets in our solar system are all unique in their way. In terms of temperature, no two planets have the same one since it is the result of various processes. Generally, a planets temperature is… [+7459 chars]
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spotted an impact crater on the Red Planet, but it isn't round as most impact craters ar… [+1827 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]
Originally discovered in 2007, fast radio bursts, or as researchers refer to them, FRBs, are one of the many mysteries of the universe that are yet to be fully explained by science. FRBs are a radio… [+1278 chars]
Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmoson Twitter Image caption, Uranus, photographed here by the Hubble Space Telescope, has at least 13 rings and numerous moons The US space agency Nasa should… [+4785 chars]
Zoom/ A trapped blow fly on a carnivorous dewy plant. Cathy Kiefer | GT Towards the end of the 19th century, horrific stories about killer plants began to appear everywhere. Terrible tentacled tree… [+4644 chars]
