<ul><li>Scientists have for the first time been able to grow plants in soil from the moon.</li><li>The soil samples were collected during the Apollo 11, 12 and 17 ventures, according to NPR.</li><li>… [+3976 chars]
Robots have traditionally been purpose-built to perform a single, very specific task, but researchers from Beihang University are taking a much different approach with a new robotic drone that can op… [+6569 chars]
A discovery by former Carnegie Mellon Ph.D. student, Mingyi Wang, leading a large collaborative team, sheds light on one way new particles are forming in the upper troposphere. The study, published i… [+6780 chars]
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Remains of a now-extinct ancient human species called Denisovans were found in southeast Asia for the first time. Scientists were seeking remains from Denisovans in the area because they knew that s… [+3581 chars]
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Schematic of experimental setup. In Alices (Bobs) lab, a seed laser is locked to an ultra-low-expansion (ULE) glass cavity to achieve a subhertz linewidth by using the Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) [41, 42… [+4351 chars]
An isotope of a chemical element contains the same number of protons in the center of its atom, but when compared to another atom, the number of neutrons is different. Regarding water, some hydrogen … [+3675 chars]
The ability of piezoelectric materials to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy and vice versa makes them useful for various applications from robotics to communication to sensors. A new d… [+6145 chars]
With the December 2021 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, one of the most expensive and ambitious scientific initiatives ever attempted commenced operations. Now that the telescope has been su… [+50865 chars]
Thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana), botanic school of the Jardin des Plantes of Paris, France. Credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5 New research in plants that colonized the base of… [+6087 chars]
Two Rutgers engineers specializing in the process of making drugs derived from living organisms have created an analytical tool they expect will accelerate the discovery and production of biologic dr… [+4872 chars]
