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]
NASA will launch a rocket from the remote wilderness of northern Australia on Sunday evening, the first commercial space launch in Australia and the agency’s first from a commercial spaceport. The s… [+2027 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]
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question youd like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. How many ice ages has the Earth had, and could … [+4358 chars]
A terahertz optical spectroscopy system prototype with a sensing area comparable to the cross-sectional area of only five human hairs was developed by researchers from Osaka University’s Institute of… [+2884 chars]
Whether or not a solid can emit light, for instance as a light-emitting diode (LED), depends on the energy levels of the electrons in its crystalline lattice. An international team of researchers led… [+2992 chars]
The moon has a new double crater after a rocket body collided with its surface on March 4. New images shared by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling the moon since 2009, have… [+3234 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]
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]
Most people use walking as their primary form of locomotion. It’s hard to imagine that millions of years ago, our ancestor primates crawled on four limbs and rarely walked on two limbs. Over time, hu… [+1784 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]
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]
