Noise protection: An optical micrograph of the circuit used in the experiment, showing aluminium electrodes in light grey and niobium electrodes in dark grey. The insets are scanning electron microsc… [+4876 chars]
Planet parade. Planet party. Planet-palooza. Whatever you want to call it, there will be a lovely lineup of planets visible across the early morning sky in June. Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are t… [+2154 chars]
Scientists have come up with a new classification scheme for mountain belts that uses just a single number to describe whether the elevation of the mountain belt is controlled mainly by weathering an… [+3056 chars]
OceanGate Expeditions Invites Media to Discuss Scientific Research Planned During 2022 Titanic Expedition This marriage of biology, ecology, archaeology, and GIS mapping is making a unique contribut… [+5109 chars]
By: Trude Haugseth Moe // UiT The Arctic University of Norway Its a staggering thought. Everything in the world is made up of tiny atoms. They are so small that a single grain of sand contains about… [+4941 chars]
Molecular machines that kill infectious bacteria have been engineered to function with a more clinically useful light power source. The latest iteration of these synthetic nanoscale drills, or molecu… [+8159 chars]
A team of researchers at Harvard University, has developed a way to create ultracold polyatomic molecules by trapping and cooling them in three dimensions. In their paper published in the journal Nat… [+2534 chars]
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An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a new super-Earth exoplanet orbiting a nearby M-dwarf star known as Ross 508. The newly found alien world, which received designation Ros… [+3414 chars]
While some galaxies continue to create stars, others die out and live a more passive existence. What caused these galaxies to stop creating stars at such a young age is unknown, not the least since t… [+4010 chars]
Researchers from the Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have found that granular matter (such as sand) and some b… [+2791 chars]
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