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]
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]
A comet visiting the sun has disintegrated in front of astronomers' eyes in a series of unprecedented observations that may help explain why comets orbiting close to the sun seem to disappear. The … [+2859 chars]
Imagine a road with two lanes in each direction. One lane is for slow cars, and the other is for fast ones. For electrons moving along a quantum wire, researchers in Cambridge and Frankfurt have disc… [+4965 chars]
Astronomers are buzzing after observing the fastest nova ever recorded. The unusual event drew scientists attention to an even more unusual star. As they study it, they may find answers to not only t… [+5613 chars]
The space bubbles concept is based on the work of Roger Angel, who in 2006 proposed placing thin reflective films in orbit around the Earth. The MIT concept develops that idea by making it easily dep… [+666 chars]
The planet is shaped by forces deep within its interior. These push the plates of the Earth's crust against each other, causing mountains and volcanoes to form along the collision zones. But when rec… [+5026 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]
A research group from the University of Innsbruck has found out how the Cranial Sensory Ganglia were formed. University of Innsbruck researchers have identified the genetic origin of our senses Res… [+3998 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]
The Hubble Space Telescope captured the spiral galaxy NGC 7496 24 million light-years from Earth. (Image credit: NASA/ESA) Birds of a feather may flock together here on Earth, but our avian friends … [+2269 chars]
It turns out Earth is not the only planet humans are contaminating. A new image snapped by NASA's Perseverance rover captures the sad reality of how we are already littering Mars with rubbish. Engi… [+6275 chars]
