image: Visual of two variations of the catalyst, with a segment of the shell removed to show the interior. The white sphere represents the silica shell, the holes are the pores. The bright green sphe… [+5496 chars]
About 460 light-years from Earth lies the small but lovely star cluster IC 2391. It only has about 250 stars in it, but one of them is special because its actually four stars, a quaternary system. As… [+5525 chars]
This graphic depicts the environmental conditions at Jezero Crater from the day NASA's Perseverance Mars rover landed there on Feb. 18, 2021, the first Martian day, or sol, of the mission through Sol… [+967 chars]
Astronauts living and working in orbit could have their spacecraft and suits cleaned by specially developed microbes. Microorganisms in space present a serious threat to both the health of spacefare… [+2569 chars]
In the last five years, the discovery and significant interest in twisted bilayer graphene gave rise to an entirely new subfield in advanced materials science and quantum physics: twistronics. In a n… [+6398 chars]
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Research from the lab of Matthew Lew at Washington University in St. Louis offers entirely new ways to see the very small. The research -; two papers by PhD students at the McKelvey School of Engine… [+2618 chars]
WASHINGTON SpaceX will replace the heat shield on the next Crew Dragon spacecraft flying to the International Space Station after it failed inspections, but NASA says there is no risk of a similar pr… [+2746 chars]
Inside Egypts Great Pyramid of Giza lies a mysterious cavity. This void has never been seen by any human alive today. Its surface is untouched by modern hands. Luckily, scientists are no longer limit… [+14824 chars]
On the list of scientific tools that help us understand health, evolution or the environment, the Trinidadian guppy doesn't often come to mind. The fish are more often thought of as aquarium pets in… [+6638 chars]
Washington: NASA has shared one last selfie taken by InSight Mars lander that is about to retire soon as it is losing power due to dusty solar panels. The final selfie was taken on April 24 and show… [+2092 chars]
The researchers point out that the regolith characteristics could help turn lava tubeshollow voids and caves on the surfaceinto hospitable human habitats. These would provide protection from cosmic … [+2553 chars]
