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]
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]
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]
For the first time, the SupraBioNano Lab (SBNLab) at the Politecnico di Milano’s Department of Chemistry, Materials, and Chemical Engineering “Giulio Natta,” in collaboration with the University of B… [+2953 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]
TEMPE, Ariz. — A star in deep space is giving new meaning to the saying “here today, gone tomorrow.” Astronomers have witnessed the fastest star explosion ever recorded from Earth. They watched as t… [+5502 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]
New radio telescope observations have brought a new lens on one of our universe's most beautiful stellar nurseries. Having a clearer sense of what star-forming regions look like could help us unders… [+6303 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]
Are you a morning person? I have always functioned better in the early hours even despite the fact I also spend at least an hour awake every night at about 1:00 a.m. worrying (often about the fact … [+5704 chars]
The Perseverance rover has begun exploring a region that looks a little like Monument Valley in Arizona and Utah in the US, or perhaps like a set on an old sci-fi movie. The rock formations in this a… [+4534 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]
