Geologists have identified tiny lifeforms that have been trapped inside of crystals for 830 million years. And they are likely still alive. The prokaryotic and algal life is contained in tiny amounts… [+843 chars]
Tonga's volcanic eruption in January produced the strongest recorded waves from a volcano since the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, scientists say. Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai, an underwater volcano in… [+9379 chars]
Cartoon of CRISPR in cockroaches. Credit: Shirai et al./Cell Reports Methods According to a paper published in the journal Cell Reports Methods by Cell Press on May 16th, 2022, researchers devised a… [+3994 chars]
A huge meteor lit up the night sky in Warwickshire as it hurtled above two friends after they had gone outside for a late-night cigarette. The UK Meteor Network said they had received more than 100 s… [+1397 chars]
ByÉcole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)May 17, 2022 Illustration of cloud-like ionized plasma in the ITER fusion reactor tokamak. Credit: ITER Physicists at EPFL, within a large European … [+7209 chars]
Physicists at EPFL, within a large European collaboration, have revised one of the fundamental laws that has been foundational to plasma and fusion research for over three decades, even governing the… [+6584 chars]
ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti captured pictures of the May 2022 lunar eclipse from the International Space Station. On the evening of May 15, 2022, Earth passed between the Sun and the Moon b… [+1160 chars]
Cartoon of CRISPR in cockroaches. Credit: Shirai et al./Cell Reports Methods According to a paper published in the journal Cell Reports Methods by Cell Press on May 16th, 2022, researchers devised a… [+3994 chars]
ByGoethe UniversityMay 17, 2022 This is the first image of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). It is the … [+13374 chars]
Hundreds of sightings of a meteor were reported across England last night, with some describing it as a "bright blue-green" fireball in the sky. UK Meteor Observation Network (UKMON) confirmed to Sk… [+2463 chars]
