A new study sheds light on how humans may not simply be warming Earth, but instead may be making the planet's climate chaotic. The new research was shared on ArXiv and is pending peer review. The re… [+2736 chars]
The DNA “fingerprints” that sea turtles leave behind offer scientists a way to track the health and whereabouts of the endangered animals, say researchers. The study is the first to sequence sea tur… [+5450 chars]
Mars is one of the most active planets in the solar system for the space research - be it NASA or CNSA, both have sent their robots there to dig out information and research facts about Mars. But the… [+1732 chars]
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]
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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Astronomers from the University of Arizona (UA) and elsewhere report the discovery of a new ultra-faint dwarf galaxy. The newfound galaxy, designated Tucana B, is the first quenched and isolated obje… [+3231 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]
The Milky Way is a giant spiral galaxy believed to be made from several smaller dwarf galaxies. Each dwarf galaxies contain a massive black hole, potentially destined to be swallowed by the Milky Way… [+3088 chars]
Birds keep themselves warm with heat generated by some of the most hard-working metabolisms on the planet, while lizards rely on the sun to keep them toasty. Both of these groups are linked to dinosa… [+6681 chars]
The US is committed to helping the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) reach its goal of putting the first Japanese astronaut on the moon by 2030 potentially making Japan just the second nation… [+2473 chars]
Long-distance ocean travel began with watercraft using zero-emission propulsion systems. Gigantic sails harnessed the power of the wind. As technology developed, oceangoing craft switched to fossil-… [+1969 chars]