Dozens of hefty galaxies are decorating a new telescopic achievement: Astronomers took the largest infrared image that NASAs Hubble Space Telescope has ever produced. The veteran space observator… [+2088 chars]
B.C.’s critical kelp forests withered as climate change has triggered marine heat waves along the entire West Coast in recent years. But exceptions to the rule may provide insights helpful to savin… [+4916 chars]
Metagenome sequencing and assembly To investigate the dynamic changes in the colonization cycle and the extent of substrate specialization of rumen microbiota, different lignocellulosic biomasses we… [+36091 chars]
Establishing a permanent human presence on the moon is nothing more than a science fiction premise. But before getting there, several challenges will have to be met, including improving communication… [+4089 chars]
A recent experiment detailed in the journal Nature is challenging our picture of how electrons behave in quantum materials. Using stacked layers of a material called tungsten ditelluride, researchers… [+7013 chars]
A group of astronomers led by Sarah Bosman from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have robustly timed the end of the epoch of reionization of the neutral hydrogen gas to about 1.1 billion years … [+7665 chars]
When Nasa placed a $278mn contract with an upstart rocket company in 2006, it may not have realised that it was about to revolutionise space flight. But this was the contract that helped Elon Musk’s … [+4443 chars]
