During the Antarctic summer, air temperatures get warm enough to melt snow and ice on the surface of the great ice sheets that make up around 99% of Antarctica. This melted water collects to form tho… [+4968 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]
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]
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]
Uranus, the ice giant, is certainly the strangest planet in the solar system, with more than a dozen rings that circle around it and as many as 27 moons encircle it! Its atmosphere, which is full of … [+2123 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]
image: The researchers clamped the saw in two configurations: a J shape (left) and an S shape (right). The S shape has an inflection point (the sweet spot) in its profile, while J shape doesn't/ (Cre… [+4950 chars]
The European Organization for Nuclear Research known by its French acronym, CERN is the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Located just outside of Geneva, Switzerland, it was establish… [+7206 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]
The CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider measures the mass of the top quark with unparalleled accuracy. Credit: CERN Precise knowledge of the top-quark mass is of paramount importance to u… [+3278 chars]
image: Construct covalent organic frameworks foam separators by melt polymerization.view more Credit: ©Science China Press Adsorption-based (e.g., gas or liquid molecules) separation technologies … [+3139 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]
