Superconductors are materials with no electrical resistance whatsoever, commonly requiring extremely low temperatures. They are used in a wide range of domains, from medical applications to a central… [+2768 chars]
Washington, June 3 (IANS): NASA aims to buy from SpaceX five additional crewed flights to the International Space Station. SpaceX is currently NASA's only certified commercial crew transportation pr… [+1872 chars]
WASHINGTON, June 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA and SpaceX are targeting 10:22 a.m. EDT Friday, June 10, to launch the agency's next investigation to monitor climate change to the International Space S… [+6053 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]
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Plesiosaurs, which lived about 210 million years ago, adapted to life underwater in a unique way: their front and hind legs evolved in the course of evolution to form four uniform, wing-like flippers… [+6142 chars]
For centuries, legends have spread of the aurora "speaking" and making sounds as geomagnetic storms glimmer over the Earth's poles. Scientists have long dismissed these as psycho-acoustic phenomena … [+2988 chars]
Most mammals, including humans, are diploid. That is, nuclear DNA (nrDNA) exists as pairs of chromosomes (humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes, while mice have 20). This pair of chromosomes are homolo… [+6057 chars]
Science writer Natalie Wolchover has received a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for her work at Quanta Magazine explaining the intricate story of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, which launched in December. W… [+4967 chars]
The oldest shoe in Norway — a 3,000-year-old bootie from the Bronze Age — is just one of thousands of ancient artifacts that were recovered from the country's melting mountain ice patches in the past… [+4805 chars]
Newswise — Aqueous droplet formation by liquid-liquid phase separation (or coacervation) in macromolecules is a hot topic in life sciences research. Of these various macromolecules that form droplets… [+3214 chars]
Since he was young, Chih-Wei Joshua Liu 22 always knew he wanted to be a physician-scientist, pursuing research at the intersection of basic science and medicine. Growing up, I wanted to do work th… [+7673 chars]
