Researchers at ETH Zurich have succeeded for the first time in trapping excitonsquasiparticles consisting of negatively charged electrons and positively charged holesin a semiconductor material using… [+5020 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]
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large expulsions of plasma and magnetic field from the sun's atmosphere — the corona. Compared to solar flares — bursts of electromagnetic radiation that travel at… [+12947 chars]
Kiel: A new study shows an unexpected negative impact of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) on important plankton groups. The findings of the research were published in the journal ‘Nature’. While calcifying org… [+5200 chars]
A large team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S., Spain, France and Finland has found that frequent dust devils and daytime upslope winds are the reason for Mars's consta… [+3283 chars]
SpaceX’s first dedicated Falcon Heavy launch for NASA has been hit by a seven-week delay after spacecraft engineers discovered a software anomaly during preflight processing. Named after the exotic … [+3750 chars]
The origin of the Universe – the beginning of everything – is one question in which the scientific and religious narratives are sometimes obscured. This is not because they are experiencing the same … [+3794 chars]
China has announced its first plans to search the stars for nearby habitable planets that could one day expand humanity's "living space" across the Milky Way. In the project, called Closeby Habitab… [+5321 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]
SpaceX launched its Transporter-5 mission in its Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 12:05 am (IST) on May 26. Meant to be a ride-share mission, but it is also b… [+1860 chars]
arising from Ian W. Keesey et al. Nature Communicationshttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09087-z (2019) The structure of nervous and sensory systems reflects the interactions between selection pres… [+24446 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]
