A scientist from the Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences at the University of Tsukuba developed a method for producing electrically conductive polymers that assume a helical configuration. By using … [+2671 chars]
This past April, NASA and its partners at the German space agency announced the end to the SOFIA mission. The modified Boeing 747SP jumbo jet is being retired after eight years of service, but its sc… [+852 chars]
An international team of archeologists led by members from the Natural History Museum Basel has described a new species of extinct “bear dog” that lived in Europe between 36 and 7.5 million years ago… [+2515 chars]
The human middle earwhich houses three tiny, vibrating bonesis key to transporting sound vibrations into the inner ear, where they become nerve impulses that allow us to hear. Embryonic and fossil e… [+4050 chars]
Italian astrophysicist Margherita Hack smiling at home where she keeps over twenty thousand books. ... [+] Trieste, 21st June 2012. (Photo by Massimo Sestini/Mondadori via Getty Images) Mondadori vi… [+2201 chars]
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are among the most mysterious astronomical phenomena facing astronomers today. While hundreds of bursts have been detected since the first-ever recorded detection of an FRB i… [+7443 chars]
An artist's impression of Comet Interceptor, which is due to launch in 2028 and will wait for its target for up to six years.Credit: Geraint Jones, UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory The European … [+5455 chars]
Photo credit: Günter Bechly. Coelacanths are considered to be “living fossils,” which do not sit well with the Darwinian assumption of evolutionary change over time driven by natural selection actin… [+815 chars]
If mechanoluminescent materials are subjected to external mechanical stress, they emit visible or invisible light. Such excitation can occur due to bending or gentle pressure, for example, but also c… [+4150 chars]
10:53, 17.06.22 Fifteen years into the future, AccuBeat plans on its Ultra-Stable-Oscillator (USO) still functioning as it floats through deep space. And while telling time in space is anything but… [+7731 chars]
A novel nanoscale catalysis-based flame retardance system was developed and integrated into a polypropylene polymer matrix in a research paper published in the journal Materials Letters. This study o… [+5323 chars]
While the global space agencies are trying to dominate the low-Earth orbit (LEO), the space race has birthed a neglected but serious problem -- the problem of space debris. According to current estim… [+1922 chars]
