Single photons are ideal carriers of quantum information, especially because they are fast, they barely interact with the environment or each other, and large-scale infrastructure for their distribut… [+4815 chars]
A total of 1,038 publicly available ocean microbial community genomes (metagenomes) were collected at 215 globally distributed sites. Credit: GEBCO, NOAA, CHS, OSU, UNH, CSUMB, National Geographic, D… [+4272 chars]
Most people use walking as their primary form of locomotion. It’s hard to imagine that millions of years ago, our ancestor primates crawled on four limbs and rarely walked on two limbs. Over time, hu… [+1784 chars]
NASA’s Juno probe has capturedsome of the most beautifulphotos of Jupiter over the years, and now the space agency has formed a citizen scientist project so the public can help with the work of ident… [+3292 chars]
Summary: Findings reveal the molecular mechanism for acetylcholine in learning and memory. Source: Fujita Health University Patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) have lower levels of the neuromodu… [+7224 chars]
The Near InfraRed Planet Searcher (NIRPS) instrument, developed in part at the Université de Montréal and the Université Laval, has successfully performed its first observations. Mounted on ESOs 3.6-… [+7528 chars]
Why send teens into space? They are the ideal astronaut candidates: They are less likely to grasp the inherent risks involved in space travel, so might be less terrified to know they are about to be … [+5566 chars]
Scientists think it’s possible that the two genes, PEN1 and SYP122, paved the way for all kinds of terrestrial plant life. Researchers have shed new light on how plant life originated on Earth rese… [+6057 chars]
Illustration of Psyche spacecraft with five-panel array NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State Univ./Space Systems Loral/Peter Rubin NASA's Psyche asteroid mission -- the agency's first mission designed to… [+2642 chars]
On February 11th, 2016, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the detection of gravitational waves (GW) for the first time. As predicted by Einstein’… [+5140 chars]
A rocket body impacted the moon on March 4, creating a double crater roughly 91 feet wide. NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University While we think of the moon as a static place, sometimes an event happen… [+1648 chars]
Juno photos of Jupiter are absolutely stunning, as weve seen before. But as we all know, they arent here just to amaze us, they have major scientific importance. And you, our dear reader, can now con… [+2365 chars]
