Scientists found signs of life in samples dating back 830 million years. And it’s possible some of them are even still alive. They extracted samples from a mile-deep core sample in Western Australia,… [+2192 chars]
The International Space Station (ISS) has served as a platform for another major breakthrough in outer space experiments- the creation of ultracold bubbles. Using the Cold Atom Lab, the first-ever qu… [+3082 chars]
An ancient tooth found in a cave has been linked to the Denisovans, a sister species of modern humans. The tooth was first found during an archaeological survey in a remote area of Laos. Now, scienti… [+3361 chars]
New research led by the University of Cambridge is the first to take a detailed image of an unusual pocket of rock at the boundary layer with Earth's core, some three thousand kilometres beneath the … [+4715 chars]
Using tens of thousands of stars observed by the Gaia space probe, astronomers from MPIA and Chalmers have revealed the 3D shapes of two large star-forming molecular clouds, the California Cloud and … [+6444 chars]
Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), created in ultracold bosonic atoms and degenerate quantum gases, are a macroscopic quantum phenomenon and are considered as a single particle in mean-filed theory. B… [+2647 chars]
In order to achieve a fusion power plant, it is necessary to stably confine a plasma of more than 100 million degrees Celsius in a magnetic field and maintain it for a long time. A research group led… [+3634 chars]
Internationally comparable data on biodiversity is needed to protect threatened ecosystems, restore destroyed habitats and counteract the negative effects of global biodiversity loss. Current biodive… [+3455 chars]
Many age-related diseases share a common feature: the mitochondria of cells begin to malfunction. While the cause is not known, Buck Institute scientists have discovered a new mechanism of how mitoch… [+4952 chars]
On Thursday, aerospace company Boeing is set to conduct a critical test flight of its new passenger spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner a mission that will launch the gumdrop-shaped capsule to the Inte… [+11086 chars]
Scientists have asked Brits to avoid touching bits of meteor which has landed in the UK and it's not for what you might think. This comes after a 'spectacular meteor fireball' was said to have dropp… [+2605 chars]
Obtaining structurally uniform nanocarbons in order to properly relate structure and function, ideally as single molecules, is a great challenge in the field of nanocarbon science. Thus, the construc… [+3808 chars]
