Jun 13 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Trinity College Dublin researchers have created luminescent, self-healing gels with a variety of potential applications ranging from counterfeiting bank notes to ne… [+5306 chars]
Induced transparency: The precise control of the energy flow (indicated by glowing particles in the fog) makes the artificial material become entirely transparent for the optical signal. Credit: Andr… [+5617 chars]
By Beth Mundy Scientists who study materials can be divided into three categories. “You have people who make things, people who make things do things, and people who try to understand why things do … [+9176 chars]
Scientists say they have discovered remains on Britain's Isle of Wight that might belong to a meat-eating dinosaur larger than any other known from Europe. The creature was closely related to the b… [+3652 chars]
Researchers from Ohio University presented evidence for a new carbon solid called “amorphous graphite” this week, as the world’s need for carbon-based materials, like graphite, increases. (left side… [+5853 chars]
In 2018, a spacecraft called Hayabusa2 landed on a moving asteroid named Ryugu and collected particles from above and below its surface. One and a half years later, it returned to Earth with a sealed… [+2555 chars]
During the time of dinosaurs in the Late Triassic, variations in the abundance and diversity of plant and vertebrate animal species cannot be causally related to the climate changes that occurred dur… [+2641 chars]
Paired jets of matter streaming away from supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies usually extend away in opposite directions along the black holes axis of spin as in the two bottom galaxy … [+4967 chars]
The Big Bang is a scientific model that describes the very earliest moments of the universe. Around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe burst into existence. Evidence for the Big Bang can be found a… [+3023 chars]
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More than a century ago, scientists were stumped by the discovery of an unusual fossil unearthed from a Scottish quarry. The remains suggested a toothless eel-like creature with a potentially cartila… [+5365 chars]
Since 2014, NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission has been orbiting Mars and gathering data on its upper atmosphere, ionosphere, and interactions with the Sun and solar wind. … [+4966 chars]
