3D Render of Planet Earth with Clouds. Planet Earth maps courtesy of NASA: ... [+] https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/144875/earth-at-night-black-marble-2012-color-maps-v2. getty Just when the wo… [+4827 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]
As many as 40 scientific proposals have been accepted from research teams across the world as everyone queues up to get a piece of asteroid that hides ingredients for life. The selected proposals are… [+1359 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]
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]
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]
Newswise — TORONTO, June 17, 2022 – The local environment plays a pivotal role in the health and diversity of the gut microbiome of wild bees which could help detect invisible stressors and early ind… [+5116 chars]
Due to high hole mobility, pentacene and its derivatives have been the representative organic semiconductor and have been the subject of much research, both basic and applied. In particular, they are… [+2549 chars]
The Royal Museums at Greenwich (opens in new tab), London, are a mine of information about this and other lunar topics. Royal Museums Greenwich comprises the Royal Observatory, Cutty Sark, National… [+2153 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]
Welcome to the summer American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Pasadena, CA, and online! Astrobites is attending the conference as usual, and we will report highlights from each day here. If yo… [+30801 chars]
Layer losses: Fewer excitatory neurons develop in the cortex of mice lacking the gene DDX3X. Courtesy of Debra Silver Loss of the autism-linked gene DDX3X prevents neurons from maturing and alters… [+4434 chars]
