Stressed forest in the Western US. Credit: William Anderegg Planting a tree appears to be a generally positive thing to do for the environment. After all, trees take in carbon dioxide, offsetting so… [+2802 chars]
Mustelids are the most ecologically and taxonomically diverse family within the order Carnivora. From the tayra in the neotropics to the wolverine in the subarctic, they inhabit a variety of ecologic… [+4867 chars]
SINGAPORE, May 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Mission Discovery Singapore is back and offers Secondary School students a once-in-a-lifetime chance team up with 3 Rockstar NASA astronauts to do something ex… [+2876 chars]
Silicon nanoparticles stabilized along the quantized vortex cores. Courtesy: Y Minowa Semiconducting nanoparticles can become trapped along structures called quantized vortices in superfluid helium-… [+3181 chars]
ByNASAMay 24, 2022 Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 474, a gigantic elliptical galaxy NGC 474 located about 100 million light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Carter (Liverpool John Mo… [+2246 chars]
Enlarge/ Planetary scientist Paul Byrne created this compilation of NASA images showing the InSight spacecraft on its 10th day on Mars, and the lander 1,201 days later. 57 with 37 posters participa… [+2640 chars]
For the first time, researchers have mapped elusive gas clouds that are believed to hold clues about galactic evolution and star formation in the early days of the universe. Using the W. M. Keck Ob… [+3001 chars]
These very words may have flown through an undersea cable before reaching your eyeballs. Hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber optics crisscross the worlds oceans, shuttling emails, Netflix shows, … [+2433 chars]
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New soft robots can navigate complex environments like mazes without input from humans or computer software, new research shows. “These soft robots demonstrate a concept called ‘physical intelligenc… [+3200 chars]
For over a decade, scientists have attempted to synthesize a new form of carbon called graphyne with limited success. That endeavor is now at an end, though, thanks to new research from the Universit… [+4170 chars]
