Once again, life has been found in an environment that would be deeply inhospitable to most organisms living on this planet. Fed by waters that pass through 600 meters (1,970 ft) of permafrost, the … [+4284 chars]
Communication networks need nodes at which information is processed or rerouted. Physicists at the University of Basel have now developed a network node for quantum communication networks that can st… [+3147 chars]
Over the past few months, our solar system has offered us a number of visual treats. Earlier in June, we had a strawberry supermoon. And in April, four planets aligned Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn… [+6869 chars]
The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. These false color images may reveal subtle variations of the … [+2531 chars]
The Orion Nebula is a well-known feature in the night sky and is visible in small backyard telescopes. Orion is a busy place. The region is known for active star formation and other phenomena. It’s o… [+7487 chars]
Windows 98 is an alien OS in the year 2022 The Mars Express. Image: European Space Agency Engineers at the European Space Agency (ESA) are getting ready for a Windows 98 upgrade on an orbiter circ… [+2441 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]
<li>Darwin, C. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (John Murray, 1859). </li><li>Schwartz, R. & Schäffer, A. A… [+28166 chars]
For the past 10 years, the Curiosity rover has traveled across the Martian terrain, looking for clues to the planets potentially habitable past. Recently, the car-sized robot drove through a transiti… [+2991 chars]
Tea is useful for all kinds of things, including caffeinating plenty of writers worldwide. There are also many varieties of it, some of which advocates claim to have superpowers regarding the health … [+3450 chars]
The photoelectric effect is one of the most fundamental light-matter interactions, which is widely used in probing ultrafast dynamics in atoms, molecules and condensed matters. It has been in the res… [+2749 chars]
NGC 2392 is a bipolar double-shell planetary nebula. About 5,000 light-years from Earth, the stunning nebula NGC 2392 formed after the demise of a star like our Sun. In this sonification, the image… [+1316 chars]
