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]
A new technique uses magnetic fields to align gold nanorods while preserving their underlying optical properties, report researchers. “Gold nanorods are of interest because they can absorb and scatt… [+2563 chars]
This article was originally published at The Conversation (opens in new tab). The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Kshitij Aggarwal (opens in n… [+5781 chars]
ByLouise Lerner, University of ChicagoJune 24, 2022 Billions of years ago, a river flowed across this scene in a Mars valley called Mawrth Vallis. A new study examines the tracks of Martian rivers t… [+7633 chars]
Within and upon every human being reside countless microorganismsthe microbiota that help shape and direct the lives of their hosts. A similar phenomenon occurs between people, microbes and the homes… [+6271 chars]
The testing campaign for NASA's super big, super expensive Space Launch System is now complete, the agency declared on Friday. All that's left now for the rocket is launch the Artemis I demonstration… [+2161 chars]
<li>Cioni, R., DOriano, C. & Bertagnini, A. Fingerprinting ash deposits of small scale eruptions by their physical and textural features. J. Volcanol. Geoth. Res.177, 277287 (2008). CAS Artic… [+17204 chars]
Scientists are a abuzz with anticipation for the first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope, the biggest and most powerful infrared space-based telescope, which will be revealed in J… [+9313 chars]
Science & Exploration24/06/202217181 views41 likes The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission has made its second gravity assist of planet Mercury, capturing new close-up images as it steers closer toward… [+4957 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]
The supermassive black hole (SMBH) at our galaxy's core, Sagittarius A*, is modest in size with only 4.15 million solar-masses. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) recently released a dramatic submilli… [+3896 chars]
Plasmonic nanoshells have been accepted as effective nanomaterials for LDI-MS recognition of many small molecules, although their uses in mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) are not much established. A s… [+6152 chars]