A massive solar flare erupted from the surface of the Sun earlier this week. The X-class flare is just the latest eruption from the Sun that has captured NASA’s attention. This time, though, NASA man… [+2447 chars]
A team from the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering has developed a new family of two-dimensional materials that researchers say has promising applications, including in advanced elec… [+2516 chars]
ByNancy Atkinson, Universe TodayMay 6, 2022 The evolution of infrared astronomy, from Spitzer to WISE to JWST. Credit: Andras Gaspar The images released by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) tea… [+4275 chars]
China's LinkSpace plans to send a rocket into space and land it safely in late 2022, three years after the startup's last major test. The company announced Thursday (May 5) that it had carried out a… [+3603 chars]
Water is one of the key reasons why Earth is habitable. Scientists believe that Earth's twin planet - Venus - was once much wetter than it is today, but it dried out for unknown reasons. NASA's upcom… [+1848 chars]
DNA mutations might be caused by a rather weird, but well-known, quantum mechanism called tunnelling. This challenges the notion that quantum behavior doesn't happen in living cells, and could greatl… [+3545 chars]
Brains of astronauts back on Earth show distinct changes even months after their return, according to a recent study conducted by Oregon Health & Science University researchers. Unsplash Also … [+1919 chars]
Black holes are some of the strangest objects in space. These balls of dense matter are scattered throughout the Milky Way and have gravitational fields so powerful, nothing can escape their gaping m… [+3493 chars]
A team from the Tulane University School of Science and Engineering has developed a new family of two-dimensional materials that researchers say has promising applications, including in advanced elec… [+2516 chars]
AUSTIN, Texas The amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the Earths atmosphere has only a small influence on changes in tropical ecosystems despite evidence of enhanced plant growth under elevated CO2 sc… [+3898 chars]
Physicists sometimes come up with crazy stories that sound like science fiction. Some turn out to be true, like how the curvature of space and time described by Einstein was eventually borne out by a… [+9691 chars]
By positioning the appropriate material at the appropriate angle, scientists from Cornell University were able to discover a way to switch the magnetization in a ferromagnet’s thin layers — an approa… [+5754 chars]
