Microplastics are the breakdown products of the plastic objects we use in everyday life wrappings, packaging, bottles, synthetic clothing, and kitchen ware, for example. None of these plastics is bio… [+4355 chars]
Colloids are mixtures of microscopic particles suspended in fluidssubstances that are part solid, part liquid. Colloids are found in products including toothpaste, ketchup, paint and liquid hand soap… [+4830 chars]
A Jurassic vampire squid-like creature used supersuckers to snatch prey out of the water column and lock it in place with a watertight seal, 3D imaging of several fossils reveals. For the first time… [+5008 chars]
Levels of methane, the second most important greenhouse gas in our atmosphere, continued their unrelenting rise in 2020 despite the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. A team of scien… [+4579 chars]
Five major planets in our solar system are lined up in a row for a rare planetary conjunction visible with the naked eye. In a clear sky, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn can be seen shinin… [+2215 chars]
Most quantum computing technologies rely on the ability to produce, manipulate and detect non-classical states of light. Non-classical states are quantum states that cannot directly be produced using… [+4814 chars]
This is what internal documents from the American space agency revealed on Monday by the magazine Ars-Technica. They contain a schedule of launches to the Moon, at a rate that would not even reach th… [+2556 chars]
A spacecraft's second close flyby of Mercury Thursday (June 23) gave a stunning set of close-ups of the planet's craters and volcanic regions. The BepiColombo mission, a joint project by the Europea… [+3046 chars]
By Mark McKee | 14 seconds ago Cosmic Contagion. Space Sickness. Astro-Affliction. We’re just spitballing here, but the next pandemic may need a better name than the last one considering where it i… [+3058 chars]
With a massive planet come massive storms. Such storms on Jupiter are the focus of a new citizen science project hosted on Zooniverse. Jovian Vortex Hunter (opens in new tab) launched Tuesday (June … [+2213 chars]
A new study led by University of Arizona researchers may have solved two mysteries that have long puzzled paleo-climate experts: Where did the ice sheets that rang in the last ice age more than 100,0… [+5968 chars]
A new analysis of a Martian meteorite is challenging current thinking about how terrestrial planets acquired volatile elements, including the elemental ingredients of life, early in their formation. … [+2718 chars]
