Creating new chemical compounds, such as new drugs, is not as simple as assembling one of those models with colored balls and sticks you might have seen in a beginning chemistry class. No, it’s often… [+4068 chars]
One species of iconic moa was almost wiped out during the last ice age, according to recently published research. But a small population survived in a modest patch of forest at the bottom of New Zeal… [+4239 chars]
Quantum computing promises to revolutionize high-performance computing. But, there is still a long way to go. Simulating the properties of materials for next-generation quantum technologies is one o… [+2735 chars]
Proteins extracted from fragments of prehistoric eggshell found in the Australian sands confirm that the continent’s earliest humans consumed the eggs of a two-metre tall bird that disappeared into e… [+4419 chars]
Could we finally understand the origin of fast radio bursts? (Getty) Mysterious fast radio bursts release as much energy as the sun pours out in a year - and now scientists believe they can reproduc… [+3226 chars]
Credit: Airbus Edinburgh / Friedrichshafen, 25 May 2022. – ESA has confirmed after a thorough review process that the preliminary design of the Airbus-built Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography … [+1056 chars]
Could we finally understand the origin of fast radio bursts? (Getty) Mysterious fast radio bursts release as much energy as the sun pours out in a year - and now scientists believe they can reproduc… [+3226 chars]
Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar spa… [+5935 chars]
Mice use a specific neural pathway to detect shadows, and it can detect just about the dimmest shadows possible, according to new research from Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. The hu… [+4041 chars]
People don’t just make Land A harsh new study finds that it warms the atmosphere, making the climate chaotic. The new research published April 21 in the preprint database arXiv (Opens in a new tab… [+5890 chars]
President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida further solidified their plans to send a Japanese astronaut to the upcoming lunar space station, while also affirming the possibility of … [+2415 chars]
Visualization of filamentary seed magnetic fields emerging from large-scale motions of unmagnetized plasma in a first-principles numerical simulation. Credit: Muni Zhou et al When we look out into s… [+8002 chars]
