The earliest documented case of an aurora, the fleeting but brilliantly colored lights that sometimes illuminate the night sky, dates to the early 10th century B.C., a new study on an ancient Chinese… [+4324 chars]
According to a team of scientists led by Harvard researchers, analysis of some very rare, ancient, and nearly indestructible crystals – zircons – has shed light on when the plate tectonics might have… [+3615 chars]
Scientists who study stars have detected a previously unknown kind of event called a micronova. The event involves thermonuclear explosions that take place on a star called a white dwarf. The explos… [+3649 chars]
If you were an alien looking at Earth from a great distance, it would have looked mostly the same right up until 10,000 years ago. That’s when humans invented agriculture, and the planet has never be… [+2724 chars]
Tiny beetles that feed on fruit from the palm family may have developed their taste for coconuts long ago, according to a Penn State-led team of scientists studying suspected insect damage in a 60-mi… [+3895 chars]
The earliest documented case of an aurora, the fleeting but brilliantly colored lights that sometimes illuminate the night sky, dates to the early 10th century B.C., a new study on an ancient Chinese… [+4324 chars]
ByUniversity of California - RiversideApril 25, 2022 A sequence of images from Solar Dynamic Observatory in 171 angstroms of the Venus transit, merged together to show the path of Venus across the s… [+2201 chars]
The 'Cupola Views Pattern' based on retired NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg's experience in the ... [+] International Space Station. Pattern designed by Karen Nyberg and Sarah Ruiz For those of us wish… [+2736 chars]
That same astronomical thinking led them to patch the ancient Babylonian method of counting by 60, the sexagesimal system, onto the hour. Just as they divided the 360 degrees of a circle or the spher… [+2141 chars]
Most of us know how to run on a basic level, but if youre reading this then the chances are that youre interested in honing your technique. If you really want to do it properly, its time to break d… [+7865 chars]
As we speak, there’s a crisis playing out in physics. Does time exist? And if not, how do we explain our universe? It’s an absurd notion to question the very fabric of our reality; the clock, the cal… [+5397 chars]
INRS researchers and international partners have succeeded in looking at spin inside rare earth materials, using a tabletop ultrafast soft-X-ray microscope, for the first time. MONTRÉAL AND VARENNES… [+4822 chars]
