On May 25, 2012, the International Space Station received one of the most important deliveries in its history. Weighing in at 525 kg, the cargo included food, water, clothing, and computer equipmen… [+6386 chars]
Title: Mapping Dark Matter with Extragalactic Stellar Streams: the Case of Centaurus A Authors: Sarah Pearson, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, David W. Hogg, Anil C. Seth, David J. Sand, Jason A. S. Hunt, … [+5990 chars]
A Los Angeles math teacher gets students engaged with connections to science and exploring the human side of math, such as how leaders inspire change in their communities. Katherine Risbrough has be… [+7363 chars]
In tension: the cosmic microwave background as seen by the Planck space telescope. It yields a value of the Hubble constant that is different from values measured in the nearby universe. (Courtesy: E… [+6357 chars]
In order to solidify humanity's long-term presence on Mars, humans would have to fuse with robots, an astronomer thinks. Lord Martin Rees, a British cosmologist, and the fifteenth Astronomer Royal re… [+2108 chars]
Lancaster University researchers have developed a camera-like device that for the first time is able to image vortices in quantum liquids. Vortices that form in stirred fluids or tornadoes and cyc… [+1887 chars]
For decades, paleobotanist David Greenwood has collected fossil plants from Australia -- some so well preserved it's hard to believe they're millions of years old. These fossils hold details about th… [+5196 chars]
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Introduction In the last decade, gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been widely explored as tools with applications in the medical field. Several studies performed by our group and other researchers ha… [+51449 chars]
In a key development, Russia will launch its Luna-25 probe to the Moon by the end of September this year, Dmitry Rogozin, head of the Russian space agency Roscosmos informed on Tuesday, May 31. Accor… [+2213 chars]
A tau Herculids meteor streaks above sandstone formations at the Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada on May 30, 2022 in this photo by Ethan Miller of Getty Images. The shooting star came from the shard… [+5369 chars]
Skoltech researchers are forecasting that by 204060, Sosnowsky's hogweed will likely exploit global warming to expand its habitat, threatening to infest almost the entire European part of Russia. Pub… [+3553 chars]
