In May 1997, a large earthquake shook the Kermadec Islands region in the South Pacific Ocean. A little over 20 years later, in September 2018, a second big earthquake hit the same location, its waves… [+5637 chars]
A toaster-sized probe will soon scope out a special orbit around the moon, the path planned for NASAs Lunar Gateway space station. The Gateway, to be rolled out later this decade, will be a staging p… [+3512 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]
<li>McCloskey, M. & Cohen, N. J. Catastrophic interference in connectionist networks: The sequential learning problem. In Psychology of Learning and Motivation, vol. 24, 109165 (Elsevier, 1989). … [+7213 chars]
Science & Exploration24/06/2022174 views6 likes Vital research into health, climate, materials and more continues with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti and colleagues aboard the Space Statio… [+4291 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]
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]
South Korea has for now called off its plan to visit Apophis, an asteroid that is expected to come close to Earth in 2029. The mission was likely canceled on the grounds of the agency's lack of techn… [+2536 chars]
SpaceX has transported the most powerful rocket booster ever assembled to its Starbase orbital launch site (OLS) and used giant robotic arms to install it. It’s not the first such trip for Starship’… [+4548 chars]
For millennia, our species looked at the Moon as a place that would forever be beyond our reach, but 20th-century technologies finally made our natural satellite accessible to probes, landers, and ev… [+1091 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]
A spiral wave of electrical activity in the heart can cause catastrophic consequences. One spiral wave creates tachycardia -- a heart rate that's too fast -- and multiple spirals cause a state of dis… [+3308 chars]
