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]
Researchers at McMaster University have unlocked an evolutionary mystery of a deadly pathogen responsible for fueling the superbug crisis: it can reproduce by having sex. And while such fraternizing… [+3707 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]
<li>Halliwell, B. & Gutteridge J. M. C. Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine 5th edn (Oxford Univ. Press, 2015). </li><li>Sies, H. et al. Defining roles of specific reactive oxygen species (ROS… [+22687 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]
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]
The alignment has been happening since June 10. Five Planets of the solar system, separated by billions of kilometres, appeared in the pre-dawn skies in rare planetary conjunction that will not repe… [+1737 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]
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]
(MENAFN- BreezyScroll) A recent study has found out that there is a reason why Jupiter is dubbed the biggest planet in our solar system. Turns out that it achieved this gigantic size (300 times big… [+1871 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]
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]
