We’re all familiar with the famous opening of the TV show “The Big Bang Theory”. It’s a song that begins with the verse: “The whole Universe was in a hot dense state…” performed by the BareNakedLadie… [+7025 chars]
A new study shows a deep connection between some of the largest, most energetic events in the universe and much smaller, weaker ones powered by our own Sun. The results come from a long observation … [+4490 chars]
Science & Exploration07/06/2022189 views10 likes On 19 June 2022, Jupiters intriguing moon Europa will pass in front of a distant star, making that star appear to disappear for at least a minute… [+3666 chars]
Caltech engineers have offered substantial experimental evidence for a kind of seismic dispersion presently assumed to be responsible for the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that destroyed the Japanese shor… [+3492 chars]
In June 14 and July 13, we will be seeing two supermoons just in time for the summer solstice that will take place on June 21. Each moon will rise after dusk on some of the longest days of the year. … [+2595 chars]
China’s coal resources have increasingly progressed into the deep stratum, a more difficult geomechanical environment than shallow resources. Rock mass tragedies are common, and infrared technology i… [+17127 chars]
Like ants, termites and bees, some bacteria work together as a multicellular group. There is a strict division of labor in such colonies, to make the group more resilient to the outside world. Now re… [+3489 chars]
The researchers decided that dust must be getting mixed up with the frost, creating "dirty frost" which is impossible to see in the visible light wavelength but can still be seen in the infrared. Thi… [+1493 chars]
Otters learn skills from each otherbut they also solve some mysteries alone, new research shows. University of Exeter scientists gave Asian short-clawed otters "puzzle boxes" containing familiar foo… [+2746 chars]
Atoms do weird things when forced out of their comfort zones. Rice University engineers have thought up a new way to give them a nudge. Materials theorist Boris Yakobson and his team at Rice's Georg… [+3456 chars]
Even small differences in how fast animals grow during development can sum up to large differences in their adult body size. Nevertheless, adults of the same species are usually nearly identical in s… [+3491 chars]
An international research team led by DESY scientist Tim Laarmann has for the first time been able to monitor the quantum mechanically evolving electron charge distribution in glycine molecules via d… [+3688 chars]
