When astronauts depart for the Moon later this decade under the Artemis Program, they will not just bounce around and return with rock samples. This time, NASA and its collaborators have plans to sen… [+2606 chars]
A new artificial enzyme has shown it can chew through lignin, the tough polymer that helps woody plants hold their shape. Lignin also stores tremendous potential for renewable energy and materials.Re… [+5659 chars]
Over 50,000 years ago, the territory of what is now Australia was populated, among others, by very big birds. One of them, Genyornis newtoni, weighed about 250 kilograms. But its size didn’t do it mu… [+3397 chars]
Zinc-filled oysters are often linked to improved libido and sexual activity, and now scientists at Flinders University are calling for more serious investigations into how marine organism compounds c… [+2916 chars]
Terahertz technology could enable advanced scanners for security, medicine, and materials science. It could also enable much faster wireless communications devices than are currently possible. Scien… [+5915 chars]
A strange meteorite found in western Egypt in 1996 may contain small pieces of debris from the supernova in it and not just any supernova but created by the eruption of a white dwarf, a fossil of a s… [+3138 chars]
ByAssociation of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)May 31, 2022 NASAs Voyager 2 spacecraft captured these views of Uranus (on the left) and Neptune (on the right) during its flybys of the… [+13653 chars]
In about 5 billion years, the Sun will leave the main sequence and become a red giant. It'll expand and transform into a glowering, malevolent ball and consume and destroy Mercury, Venus, Earth, and … [+12052 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]
Researchers have taken inspiration from the world of plants to develop innovative and efficient nanoparticles that could be used to build the solar panels of the future. A team of engineers and biol… [+2538 chars]
One of the most tedious, daunting tasks for undergraduate assistants in university research labs involves looking hours on end through a microscope at samples of material, trying to find monolayers.T… [+3431 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]
