Our 21st-century world is full of electronic devices communicating with each other. This elaborate network—from the smallest motion sensor chips to your smartwatch—is known as the Internet of Things.… [+2962 chars]
All was amiss with the Sun! In the early 2000s, a new set of data brought down the chemical abundances at the surface of the Sun, contradicting the values predicted by the standard models used by ast… [+4989 chars]
Reconstruction of the phylogenetic tree of Rodentia (rodents) on the basis of their whole genomes. Image via Wiki Commons. Ever since Darwin published and popularized the idea of evolution, research… [+4446 chars]
Ka mua, ka muri. We walk backward into the future, with our eyes on the past. This whakatauk (proverb) represents a New Zealand Mori perspective that has much in common with the way Earth scientists … [+15546 chars]
NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter makes farthest, fastest flight yet NASA's Mars helicopter is setting new records. On one of its most recent flights, Ingenuity flew farther and faster than it had ev… [+4460 chars]
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have captured an image that shows huge rings around a black hole. It’s a composite that shows the ring-encircled black hole in X-ra… [+810 chars]
Scientists who study the cosmos have a favorite philosophy known as the "mediocrity principle," which, in essence, suggests that there's really nothing special about Earth, the sun or the Milky Way g… [+4970 chars]
A Kobe University research group has shed light on how low-frequency tectonic tremors occur; these findings will contribute towards better predictions of future megathrust earthquakes.In addition to … [+5800 chars]
Scorch marks on prehistoric shell fragments discovered in sandhills east of Adelaide several years ago quickly sparked theories of Australia's first inhabitants cooking and eating the eggs of a long-… [+2334 chars]
Ka mua, ka muri. We walk backward into the future, with our eyes on the past. This whakatauk (proverb) represents a New Zealand Mori perspective that has much in common with the way Earth scientists … [+15546 chars]
A multinational collaboration of researchers has found out that millions of tons of a highly reactive chemicals are formed in the Earth's atmosphere every year, Live Science reported. Researchers we… [+3886 chars]
WASHINGTON — Physics is probably the last thing on most peoples’ minds as they pop open a bottle of champagne, but new research is revealing the astounding fluid dynamics at play each time we open “a… [+3110 chars]
