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]
While staring at a multi-colored image of four overlapping clouds in the constellation Cygnus, a northern constellation on the plane of the Milky Way, Astronomy Professor Dan Clemens thought he saw a… [+3485 chars]
When NASA announced in May that the InSight Mars lander was shutting down after a 4-year mission studying the planets crust, mantle, and core, headlines focused on the robots landmark discoveries abo… [+5662 chars]
The destination for NASA's Artemis 1 mission looks big and bright in stunning new photos from the agency taken Tuesday (June 14). In the new images, the full moon looms large behind Launch Complex 3… [+2488 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]
A collaborative team of researchers from the National Institute for Basic Biology, the University of Tokyo, and Gunma University in Japan reported that in the liverwort Marchantia polymorpha, the num… [+3826 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]
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]
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]
These improved Herschel images show us that the dust ecosystems in these galaxies are very dynamic, said Christopher Clark, an astronomer at the Space Science Telescope Institute in Maryland, who led… [+1323 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]
The ability to analyze binding configurations in isolated nanosystems is of tremendous interest because how molecules attach to a surface is crucial in chemical processes. Dr. Lukas Bruder and Prof. … [+2479 chars]
