The Large Hadron Collider, the particle accelerator that enabled the discovery of the Higgs boson, is back in action after over three years in hiatus. CERN shut the accelerator down for maintenance a… [+2075 chars]
As they say, the best things in life are free. When it comes to what to watch and experience this month, very few opportunities come close to that of witnessing the rare alignment of four planets in … [+2570 chars]
Big bodies and big brains have helped crows and ravens survive in a variety of climates and habitats all over the world, new research finds. Crows and ravens, well known for their black color and th… [+3885 chars]
NASA flight surgeon Josef Schmid flashes a famous 'Star Trek' gesture Oct. 8, 2021, as he is ... [+] holoported on to the International Space Station. ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Thomas Pe… [+2584 chars]
The cover of the current issue of Science, the 142-year-old flagship journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and one of the top peer-reviewed academic journals in the worl… [+10468 chars]
New research has identified a lesser-known form of ozone playing a big role in heating the Southern Oceanone of Earth's main cooling systems. Ozone is a gas composed of three oxygen atoms. Many stud… [+3638 chars]
Schmid had a virtual consultation with astronaut Thomas Pesquet as part of his 3D telemedicine visit. The “holoportation”, a word derived from hologram and transportation, featured a life-like visua… [+337 chars]
It's messy out there in the universe. In the latest example, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found intermediate-mass black holes that are growing by ripping apart and consuming thousands of… [+3579 chars]
Imagine a home on Mars. Is it filled with bacteria? When we send humans to Mars , they'll need places to live. In a new study, a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), in … [+4201 chars]
Construct covalent organic frameworks foam separators by melt polymerization. Credit: Science China Press Adsorption-based (e.g., gas or liquid molecules) separation technologies have shown unique e… [+3578 chars]
Stable packets of light waves — called optical solitons — are emitted in ultrashort-pulse lasers as a chain of light flashes. These solitons often combine into pairs with very short temporal separati… [+2869 chars]
Two galaxies locked together in an intricate gravitational dance have created a beautiful illusion in the depths of space. Captured in a new Hubble photo, their interaction has formed a near-symmetr… [+1707 chars]
