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]
For the first time since 947 AD, four planets will line up across the southeastern sky tomorrow morning. If you head outside just before sunrise, from around 4:30am to 5am AEST, you can get a glimps… [+1275 chars]
Fossil organisms from the Cenozoic Era have been discovered in abundance in a geological deposit in Aix-en-Provence, France. There has been an abundance of mummified animals & plants unearthed in… [+1895 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]
NASA and its industry partners have developed a lunar backpack - a remote-sensing 3D mapping system to support lunar exploration and future science missions. Using the new technology, explorers coul… [+1920 chars]
A low-res version of the high resolution image of the Sun from Solar Orbiter.ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI team; Data processing: E. Kraaikamp (ROB) A few weeks ago I wrote about a ground-breakin… [+7467 chars]
We all know crows and ravens, with their pitch-black color and distinctive sounds. But theres much to these birds than meets the eyes. As it turns out, they occupy almost all of Earths biomes, from d… [+2817 chars]
The latest advance in recommendation technology shows that better user and item representations can be learned via performing graph convolutions on the user-item interaction graph. However, such a fi… [+2080 chars]
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The Sun has become a beehive of solar activity lately. Since April 15, the Earth has been bombarded by one solar storm after another as a result of non-stop solar flare eruption on the surface of the… [+2161 chars]
Physicists at the University of California, Irvine have demonstrated the use of a hydrogen molecule as a quantum sensor in a terahertz laser-equipped scanning tunneling microscope, a technique that c… [+3514 chars]
The first solar eclipse of 2022 is coming on April 30. There will be a narrow band of visibility across parts of Antarctica, the southern tip of South America, and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Or… [+8058 chars]