Earlier this week, private space technology company Astrobotic unveiled its new robotic lunar lander. Called Peregrine, the 6-foot-tall probe is scheduled to land on the Moon later this year. Pereg… [+2881 chars]
Intermediate-mass black holes are notoriously hard to find but a new study indicates there may be some at the center of dense star clusters located throughout the universe. The study, published in … [+3576 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]
It has been common knowledge that climatic shifts, in particular the transition from the warm and wet Pliocene (5.3-2.6 mya) to the cold and dry Pleistocene (2.6 mya 10 kya), played a key role in the… [+5859 chars]
For years, the brain has been thought of as a biological computer that processes information through traditional circuits, whereby data zips straight from one cell to another. While that model is sti… [+5994 chars]
image: From left: Thomas Albright and Sergei Gepshteinview more Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA—(April 22, 2022) For years, the brain has been thought of as a biological computer that processes in… [+6599 chars]
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been fired up again after a three year break for maintenance and upgrades with the first beam sent around the tunnel just before 10am BST this morning. The LHC wo… [+13327 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]
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]
Nucleic acids analysis is mainly used in pathogen detection, genetic disease identification and early cancer diagnosis. For example, quantitative analysis of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), a free DNA… [+3017 chars]
Monash University, University of Queensland and Australian National University researchers have used ANSTO's Australian Synchrotron in their study of meteorites found on Earth that could be used in f… [+4622 chars]
The eerie, ethereal sound of the singing saw has been a part of folk music traditions around the globe, from China to Appalachia, since the proliferation of cheap, flexible steel in the early 19th ce… [+4881 chars]
