Astra aims to notch its second consecutive satellite-deploying success this weekend. The California-based startup is targeting no earlier than Sunday (June 12) for the launch of two tiny cubesats … [+2395 chars]
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which is set to launch in the mid-2020s, is made to focus on the secrets of dark matter and energy while searching for exoplanets, supernovae, black holes, a… [+2608 chars]
Pristine material from the asteroid Ryugu was brought back to Earth in 2020 after a six-year mission to the celestial body around 300 million kilometres away. But scientists are only just beginnin… [+2040 chars]
Newswise — Seven new scientific results from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the Very Large Array (VLA), and the Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) will be revealed at multi… [+4277 chars]
image: Schematic illustration of the moiré pattern evolution under the influences of external forces and torques for a circularly shaped colloidal cluster interacting with a periodically structured s… [+8396 chars]
Archaea are present in the gut microbiome throughout the animal kingdom We analysed samples from 250 species of animals (n=341 samples) ranging from invertebrates to mammals the majority of which, e… [+45208 chars]
Hard at work: Vincenzo Ardizzonne (left), Dario Ballarini (centre) and Daniele Sanvitto in their lab. (Courtesy: Daniele Sanvitto/CNR-Nanotec Lecce) A bound state in the continuum (BIC) is a symmetr… [+3911 chars]
A unique telescope that focuses light with a slowly spinning bowl of liquid mercury instead of a solid mirror has opened its eye to the skies above India. Such telescopes have been built before, but … [+5410 chars]
Millions of years ago, a bipedal dinosaur with knives for fingers stalked the shores of the Asian continent. But those Edward Scissorhandslike weapons were used for slashing vegetation rather than … [+4652 chars]
Get the most fascinating science news stories of the week in your inbox every Friday. Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences The outer skin of our planetthe critical zonestretches … [+2052 chars]
Plants use the "lotus effect" to self-cleanwater droplets simply roll off and clean the surface to reduce infestation with fungal spores, for example, as Professor Wilhelm Barthlott of the University… [+3286 chars]
After a decade of observing some of the hottest, densest, and most energetic regions in our universe, this small but powerful space telescope still has more to see. NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Tele… [+5391 chars]
