Almost 1,000 bacteria species hundreds new to science have been found in the glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau, yet another indication that weve barely scratched the surface of the microbial world. Ho… [+2648 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]
These six countries are about to go to the Moon heres why, read by Benjamin Thompson. Your browser does not support the audio element. In the next year, no fewer than seven missions are heading to … [+711 chars]
<ul><li>The Mars Express spacecraft, which launched in 2003, will receive a software update to improve the data it sends back to Earth.</li><li>Currently, the craft runs on an operating system based … [+1799 chars]
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NASA is launching a small spacecraft to test the planned orbit around the moon for its upcoming lunar gateway. The mission, named Capstone, is a key step in returning astronauts to the surface of th… [+2320 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]
There are just eight planets in our Solar System (sorry Pluto), so the neighborhood can feel pretty empty. But there are over 200 moons orbiting objects in the solar system, including planets and lar… [+495 chars]
A research team co-led by City University of Hong Kong (CityU) have successfully developed a novel Vacuum Ultra-Violet (VUV) meta-lens which can generate and focus the VUV light, a disruptive technol… [+3260 chars]
Ryan Knapp The last few days have seen a parade of planets lined up in the night sky with Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, and the moon all visible — a planetary alignment that won’t happen ag… [+4107 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]
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