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To avoid being snagged in the talons of a ravenous owl, the greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis) mimics the intense buzz of an angry hornet and thus scares off its potential predators. This is th… [+5355 chars]
A team of energy researchers led by the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have invented a device that electronically converts one metal so that it behaves like another for use as a catalyst in chem… [+4994 chars]
Enlarge/ NASA's Mars Ingenuity helicopter has been flying across the red planet for more than a year. 61 with 44 posters participating The achievement of powered flight on another world is one of t… [+3574 chars]
There are many mysteries on Mars, and scientists might have just solved two of them. Mars sports vast regions of frost that can only be seen in the infrared range of the spectrum, not in visible l… [+3156 chars]
ByU.S. Department of EnergyMay 9, 2022Ultrafast science is the study of processes in atoms, molecules, or materials on a femtosecond scale or faster. A femtosecond is a millionth of a billionth of a … [+4088 chars]
May 9 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Researchers headed by Dr. Xinping Zhou of the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Yunnan Observatories and associated partners have discovered solid evidence of coronal wav… [+2087 chars]
Research has long suggested that life started in the ocean. So why wouldnt our first defense against climate change start with addressing the oceans, considering they cover 70 percent of the planets … [+3955 chars]
The US and China are contesting for dominance over the exploitation of natural resources in space, such as mining for valuable metals in the asteroids, which could potentially result in further milit… [+6839 chars]
A fateful day some 66 million years ago, a 7.5-mile-wide (12 kilometer) space rock slams into Earth, setting off a series of events that ended the age of dinosaurs. From the dinosaurs' perspective, i… [+3312 chars]
When cells reproduce, the internal mechanisms that copy DNA get it right nearly every time. Rice University bioscientists have uncovered a tiny detail that helps understand how the process could go w… [+4844 chars]
The approach revealed new conserved components of a defense mechanism against cytoskeleton inhibitors. a, LatB interferes with actin polymerization. b, Soil microorganisms deploy (arrows) actin inhib… [+4953 chars]
