450 million years ago, the Earth was going through a rough time—the planet cooled down dramatically, leading to a glaciation, and soon the planet was seeing one of the most dramatic mass extinctions … [+1539 chars]
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) offer a wide range of applications in self-powered sensory systems. In a paper published in the journal Nano Energy, a liquid-solid TENG, driven by waves, was cre… [+5344 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]
Although graphene offers tremendous advantages for plasmon technologies, it is often difficult to co-excite multiple graphene plasmons on a highly dense single graphene sheet. In an article recently … [+6201 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 international team of astronomers reports the detection of a new luminous quasi-stellar object, or quasar. The newly found object, designated SMSS J114447.77-430859.3 (or J1144 for short) turns ou… [+3259 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]
NASA is preparing to explore and analyze an asteroid that could be the ancient core of an early planet. The Psyche spacecraft will launch later this year and perform a gravity assist around Mars in … [+3725 chars]
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and Brazil has found evidence that pumpkin toadlets (Brachycephalus) have poor jumping skills because their inner ear canals are… [+2700 chars]
Astrophotographer Brandon O’Meal managed to photograph a pair of colliding galaxies that exist about 130 million light-years away from his backyard. Speaking to PetaPixel, O’Meal explains that how … [+2838 chars]
Attending the International Space Development Conference (ISDC), the annual conference of the National Space Society, can feel like stepping back in time. While this years event, held over Memorial D… [+4250 chars]
Young stars are surrounded by swirling disks of gas and dust, the material that might one day create planets. Citizen scientists — volunteers from the general public — interact with professional scie… [+3978 chars]
