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]
Clay-based 2D nanofluidics are potential candidates for boosting the practical implementation of osmotic energy harvesting because they are inexpensive and easy to prepare on a large scale. However, … [+5991 chars]
Life (as we know it) is based on carbon. Despite its ubiquity, this important element still holds plenty of secrets, on earth and in the heavens above us. For example, astrophysicists like Columbia's… [+3912 chars]
Radon and CO2 fluxes at Furnas Fumarolic Field Radon and CO2 fluxes were measured in June 2016 at the surface using the accumulation chamber method (see Methods section; Supp. Fig. S1) around the ma… [+17463 chars]
The Antarctic midge might be smaller than a pea, but its the continents largest land animaland only native insect. The midge has clearly evolved to survive in extreme conditions, yet a warming climat… [+2781 chars]
The Antarctic midge might be smaller than a pea, but its the continents largest land animaland only native insect. The midge has clearly evolved to survive in extreme conditions, yet a warming climat… [+2781 chars]
Life (as we know it) is based on carbon. Despite its ubiquity, this important element still holds plenty of secrets, on earth and in the heavens above us. For example, astrophysicists like Columbia's… [+3912 chars]
The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been found, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin report in Nature Micro… [+4005 chars]
The days of dial-up internet, AOL Instant Messenger, and Myspace may be over on Earth, but on Mars, the early years of the internet still live on. A Martian spacecraft has been running on software de… [+2959 chars]
Understanding the structural origin of the anomalous properties of SiO2 liquid and glass is fundamental not only in physics, but also in geophysics, in understanding the nature of silicate magmas in … [+3977 chars]
We simulate the gaseous envelope using a spherically symmetric model that solves the structure equations of a planets interior assuming hydrostatic equilibrium63,64,65: $$\frac{{{{\mathrm{d}}}}m}{{{… [+25601 chars]
By trapping light into tiny gaps only a few atoms wide, a team from the NanoPhotonics Center at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge has magnified optical forces a thousand-fold, s… [+2048 chars]
