University of Central Florida researchers are developing new photonic materials that could one day help enable low power, ultra-fast, light-based computing.The unique materials, known as topological … [+3404 chars]
Chinese researchers have detected hydrated minerals on Mars by analyzing data collected by the country's Zhurong rover that is currently trekking the surface of the Red Planet. The detection by the s… [+144 chars]
<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]
Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmoson Twitter Image source, NASA/JPL-Caltech Image caption, The sophisticated French-UK seismometer package is just weeks away from being shut off The seismo… [+4942 chars]
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]
The northern lights or the aurora borealis are the most spectacular displays in the night sky. They result from collisions between gaseous particles in the Earth’s atmosphere with charged particles r… [+1719 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]
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]
Tonga's January eruption created atmospheric reactions 'unprecedented in the modern geophysical record' A boat at sea had this view of the smoke rising from the eruption. The Tongan volcano has cre… [+5122 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]
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]
Nasa is set to attempt another launch of the Starliner astronaut capsule on Thursday (19 May). The uncrewed test flight of Boeings Crew Space Transportation-100 Starliner spacecraft comes after a s… [+2575 chars]
