One of the largest comets known is approaching our planet on the only trip through the inner solar system it will make during our lifetimes. Five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope spotted a lar… [+2241 chars]
How it works: A schematic of the experiment, showing (from left to right) the photon source, fibre-based loops of different sizes with programmable parameters, and a demultiplexer that sends the outp… [+4638 chars]
Scientists warn an imminent mass annihilation of marine species similar to one 250 million years ago that wiped out most lives in oceans Justin Penn and Curtis Deutsch, scientists from Stanford Unive… [+6976 chars]
A new video released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on Monday (June 27) shows the crater-riddled surface of the solar system's smallest planet Mercury as captured during a super close flyby of th… [+4103 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]
A small international team of researchers has found that it is possible to test navigation skills in chimpanzees using virtual reality technology. In their paper published in the journal Science Adva… [+2923 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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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]
When the COVID pandemic broke out and Italy experienced a strict lockdown, news stories started reporting anecdotal evidence about women forced to live under the same roof with abusive partners. Howe… [+4192 chars]
Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have lower levels of the neuromodulator acetylcholine (ACh) in their brains. Donepezil, an AD drug, increases brain ACh levels and improves AD-associated learni… [+5566 chars]
