Egyptian fruit bats use echolocation during daylight hours even though they have good eyesight, according to a study by a team of researchers at Tel Aviv University. In their paper published in the j… [+864 chars]
MiniThis will be the first of two partial solar eclipses in 2022, as the second will occur on 25 October 2022.
Bacteria can do a lot of cool stuff. They can break down crude oil and plastic, eat metal, shrink tumors, and maybe even control robots. But for all we know about them, there is much that we dont wh… [+3017 chars]
The Kardashev Scale assesses a civilization based on its capacity to harness the energy of the cosmos. The higher up the scale, the better the civilization is at using the abundant energy of its surr… [+2717 chars]
The test version of a unique satellite navigation receiver has been delivered for integration testing on the Lunar Pathfinder spacecraft. The NaviMoon satnav receiver is designed to perform the farth… [+7158 chars]
What is the strangest animal ever discovered in the sea? Woo boy. We’ve got options. Even sea creatures that people tend to be familiar with are pretty weird. Take flounder, with their flat bodies a… [+8988 chars]
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning new image of two merging galaxies in the VV689 system (the Angel Wing). The two galaxies are in the midst of a collision, giving the impres… [+1282 chars]
A nearby dwarf star's emitted radio flares were detected by the advanced MeerKAT radio telescope, a space tech that is located in the Northern Cape of South Africa. Because of this, an internation… [+2458 chars]
Our solar system is encased in a gigantic “magnetic tunnel” that connects two vast regions of our galaxy that seemed to be disconnected. That’s the conclusion of a recent study in the area of the mag… [+4943 chars]
While crystallization is a ubiquitous and necessary process, the microscopic picture of crystal nucleation is yet to be established. It is important to develop the tiny picture of crystal nucleation … [+1753 chars]
WASHINGTON Astronomers have detected a previously unknown type of stellar explosion called a micronova involving thermonuclear blasts at the polar regions of a type of burned-out star called a white … [+2748 chars]
While crystallization is a ubiquitous and necessary process, the microscopic picture of crystal nucleation is yet to be established. It is important to develop the tiny picture of crystal nucleation … [+1753 chars]