The end-Permian extinction (EPE) was the greatest biotic crisis in Earth's history, eliminating more than 90% of species in the oceans and more than 70% of species on land. Researchers led by Dr. Li… [+2991 chars]
Biological samples The original colony of M. pharaonis was collected in 2016 from a resident house in Mengla, Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China, and split into hundreds of subcolonies in the lab… [+31808 chars]
An in situ detection by China's Chang'e-5 lunar probe and the subsequent analysis of its returned samples revealed at least two sources of water on the moon, one brought by solar wind and the other f… [+3150 chars]
One look at this stunning new image and you're likely to repeat the immortal words of "2001: A Space Odyssey's" astronaut Dave Bowman as he enters the mysterious black monolith… "My god, it's full of… [+2172 chars]
Electrons are some of the most basic building components of matter that we are familiar with. They have several distinguishing characteristics, including a negative charge and the existence of an exa… [+4587 chars]
Our solar system contains only one star, the sun. Interestingly, our sun is actually unique in that there are no other stars around it. Most of the stars in the Milky Way exist in systems of two or m… [+3318 chars]
Owing to the absence of moving mechanical components, dual-comb spectroscopy (DCS) can attain greater spectrum sensitivity and a low acquisition duration (when contrasted to Fourier-transform spectro… [+7159 chars]
NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will jointly release the James Webb Space Telescope’s first full-color images and spectroscopic data during a live broadcast… [+2264 chars]
NASA is scheduled to release the first images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12, 2022. Theyll mark the beginning of the next era in astronomy as Webb the largest space telescope ever… [+6760 chars]
IceCube is an example of how big science, and particularly particle physics, now often works on generational time scales. Getting from the idea of IceCube to actually drilling its neutrino sensors in… [+3064 chars]
Jun 16 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Ultrafast light-driven magnetization control on a nanometer length scale is critical for achieving competitive bit sizes in next-generation information encoded tech… [+5020 chars]
While examining a stellar nursery, astronomers found something peculiar: a binary star system that may have formed when a wandering star fell into the gravity of its partner. The stellar nursery L48… [+2092 chars]
