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]
A private cargo spacecraft will leave the International Space Station (ISS) early Tuesday (June 28), and you can watch its departure live. Northop Grumman's robotic Cygnus freighter is scheduled t… [+2474 chars]
Jun 27 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Topological mathematics and machine learning have been utilized by theoretical scientists to determine a concealed relationship between thermal conductivity and nan… [+5816 chars]
Newswise — Snakes and lizards have distinct body movement patterns. Lizards bend from side to side as they retract their legs to walk or run. Snakes, on the other hand, slither and undulate, like a w… [+9370 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]
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]
To many of us, cells are the building blocks of life, akin to bricks or Legos. But to biologist Regan Moore, a former Ph.D. student in Dan Kiehart's lab at Duke, cells are so much more: they're busy … [+1909 chars]
In a recent study published online in The Plant Cell, Prof. Yang Wenqiang's research team from the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBCAS) has reported the critical role of the… [+3137 chars]
Chaos in natural populations appears to be much more common than previously recognized, according to a new analysis by scientists at UC Santa Cruz and NOAA Fisheries.Populations of organisms in natur… [+3070 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]
CAIRO – 27 June 2022: While traveling on the surface of Mars, the Curiosity rover discovered evidence of the past existence of lakes on the "Red Planet". The NASA rover detected on Mount Sharp, whic… [+1822 chars]
Three-dimensional models of astronomical objects can be ridiculously complex. They can range from black holes that light doesn't even escape to the literal size of the Universe and everything in betw… [+3042 chars]