Researchers say the material has promising applications, such as advanced electronics and high-capacity batteries. Tulane Universitys School of Science and Engineering has created a new family of tw… [+3113 chars]
The term biodiversity invites images of lush rainforests, dynamic estuaries, and other biomes where a kaleidoscope of species interact within their communities. We could assume the same holds true fo… [+2330 chars]
NUS scientists discovered that a two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting material, known as black phosphorus (BP), exhibits an electronic self-passivation phenomenon by re-arranging its vacancy defects. … [+4321 chars]
Long the dream of many science fiction fans, if Elon Musk and SpaceX get their way, members of our species will indeed live on Mars within the next few decades. But, unlike in science fiction films a… [+16304 chars]
Australian astronomers discovered the brightest pulsar ever seen outside the Milky Way by putting sunglasses on a telescope. The spinning stars: At the end of their lives, some massive stars collaps… [+2876 chars]
Stars tend to form in clusters or groups of between ten and several thousand stars that share the same age and composition, although in different evolutionary phases. Among the clusters in the Milky … [+5063 chars]
NASA's spacesuits are getting old. The extra-vehicular mobility unitsEMUs for shortwere designed and built for spacewalks outside NASA's space shuttles, which flew for the last time in 2011. Nowadays… [+4557 chars]
NASA has updated the launch period for its Psyche asteroid mission, from August 2022 to September 2022, citing an issue preventing confirmation that the software controlling the spacecraft is functio… [+1735 chars]
Riding through Canadian polar bear country in a Tundra Buggyessentially a monster truck that keeps riders safely distanced from wildlifea BYU engineering capstone team scoured the landscape with shar… [+5149 chars]
NASA has taken to its blog to hone in on an elliptical galaxy and a surrounding unusual star-forming dwarf galaxy. The space agency explains that the elliptical galaxy is called NGC 541, and the irr… [+925 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]
This Hubble image captures a set of galaxies that are unusual because they seem not to have dark matter.Credit: NASA/ESA/P. van Dokkum, Yale Univ. Galaxies without dark matter baffle astronomers Sc… [+3891 chars]
