Plastic bottles, punnets, wraplightweight packaging made of PET plastic becomes a problem if it is not recycled. Scientists at Leipzig University have now discovered a highly efficient enzyme that de… [+5178 chars]
Our electronics are relatively affordable because silicon – the material of choice for computer chips – is cheap and abundant. But although silicon is a good conductor of electricity, it is not a goo… [+3244 chars]
For the past few days, we've all been fawning over the glorious new image of our Milky Way's black hole. But for a moment, we might want to pause and pay our respects to a lonely chasm across the uni… [+7168 chars]
UNSW scientists have announced a breakthrough in the field of renewable energy. They have developed a new kind of solar cells that can produce electricity even at night.’ Known as ‘Night-time’ solar… [+2704 chars]
Enlarge/ The dark matter-poor galaxies are so diffuse that you can see right through them. 19 with 13 posters participating The Universe's first galaxies are thought to have formed at sites where a… [+4640 chars]
NASA's Mars InSight lander will soon no longer be able to send back data and images scientists can analyze to better understand the red planet. It's been gradually losing power for a while now as dus… [+1815 chars]
NASA: The month of May has been relatively quiet so far in terms of asteroids coming close to our planet. While there have been a few small space rocks flying past the planet at a considerable distan… [+2392 chars]
A spacecraft looping around the Sun has made its first close approach and filmed the encounter in glorious detail. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter entered the close encounter, known … [+4277 chars]
In 1996, a rock from space was found in southwestern Egypts Great Sand Sea. The rock was odd, even by extraterrestrial standards, and a team of researchers studying the rocks chemistry now propose th… [+2742 chars]
Salt crystals from Central Australia hold ancient microorganisms that became trapped 830 million years ago, new research finds. And there's a chance that some of the microorganisms might still be a… [+4547 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]
Michigan State researchers have helped peer inside a nova -- a type of astrophysical nuclear explosion -- without leaving Earth.These stellar events help forge the universe's chemical elements, and S… [+7503 chars]
