Later this month, skywatchers in Africa can watch a star blink out of sight thanks to a quirk of celestial arrangements. The European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia , which launched in 2013, has b… [+6393 chars]
As you're reading this sentence, the cells in your brain, called neurons, are sending rapid-fire electrical signals between each other, transmitting information. They're doing so via tiny, specialize… [+2792 chars]
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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]
Antarctic fish have evolved to surviveand thrive under unbearable conditions. They make their living at the sub-zero Centigrade, freezing temperatures of the ice-filled Southern Ocean, and they keep … [+4362 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]
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A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has recently revealed that helium exposure could inhibit the penetration of hydrogen iso… [+2533 chars]
One of the most interesting discoveries about Earth in the past few decades concerns the Earth’s magnetic poles. Paleomagnetic records show that the poles have flipped places 183 times in the last 83… [+9478 chars]
A new joint study by Southwest Research Institute and Sandia National Laboratories examines the differences in oxide film growth on additively manufactured (AM) metals and wrought stainless steel in … [+3413 chars]
<li>Twohig-Bennett, C. & Jones, A. The health benefits of the great outdoors: a systematic review and meta-analysis of greenspace exposure and health outcomes. Environ. Res.166, 628637 (2018). C… [+7472 chars]
Here's an opening line pulled straight from the pages of a science fiction novel: a team of quantum physicists has finally succeeded in creating a system composed of two time crystals. In 2016, rese… [+7713 chars]
