Using the AstroSat spacecraft, Indian astronomers have inspected a galactic globular cluster known as NGC 5053. Results of the study, presented in a paper published May 27 on the arXiv pre-print repo… [+3298 chars]
Image source: "Secrets of the Cell," via Discovery Institute. Respect for bacteria is growing. Biochemist Michael Behes latest video in the Secrets of the Cell series shows how magnetotactic bacteri… [+6181 chars]
On 13 June, the European Space Agency will release the Gaia mission's third full data set which contains new and improved details for almost two billion objects in our home galaxy - the Milky Way. A … [+1732 chars]
Nobel laureate Otto Hahn is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. Fission is one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, yet Hahn considered something else to be his best s… [+7481 chars]
Jun 6 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Tetraphenylammonium, comprising all four hydrogens of ammonium (NH4+) substituted with benzene rings, has neither been found in nature nor chemically manufactured, r… [+5413 chars]
In an article recently published in the journal Otology & Neurotology Open, researchers discussed the development of a three-dimensional (3D)-printed human ear model for standardizing blast expos… [+8440 chars]
Smog-producing chemicals could be almost eliminated from the tailpipes of diesel cars and vans, using a new exhaust catalyst concept developed at KAUST. After systematically studying multiple catalys… [+3314 chars]
All cosmic objects are embedded in magnetic fields. However, these fields are weak, but they are dynamically significant because they have profound effects on the dynamics of the universe. The origi… [+3462 chars]
We didn't see any indication of their drinking coming back to baseline, so we think that maybe this epigenetic editing will produce a long-lasting effect, Pandey says. I think a lot more work needs t… [+4309 chars]
A large international study found that on average 31.4% of adolescents reported feeling unsafe at school in 13 European and Asian countries. The result revealed inequality in securing a safe educatio… [+3646 chars]
The pingan trees fruit (left) is distinct from the lumok trees (right), but Western scientists misclassified the two trees as one species for almost two centuries.Credit: left, Elias Ednie; right, El… [+3600 chars]
Asteroid collisions in the early solar system exposed their iron cores to space, allowing them to cool rapidly. (Image credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech) A great demolition derby, with a chaotic mess of aste… [+4971 chars]
