It has long been known that when salt is kept in a humid environment, it absorbs water, dissolving some of the salt and making it clump. Now, researchers from Japan have discovered that water vapor i… [+3312 chars]
image: A team of researchers, including NAU assistant professor Jason Ladner, conducted a genetic study of snake fungal disease that was recently published in PLOS Biology,view more Credit: Norther… [+9348 chars]
Photo credit: John Liu, via Flickr (cropped). How can Darwinians really enjoy awe and gratitude when believing that everything made itself by chance with no purpose or plan? Well, here is some aweso… [+7718 chars]
How the pandemic worsened poverty This graph shows how the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and rising inflation will push more people into extreme poverty living on less than US$1.90 a day than was exp… [+1760 chars]
Design and formation of thermoresponsive gating particles (PNIPAM@RS100) A schematic representation of the thermoresponsive PNIPAM gating system for controlled delivery is shown in Fig. 1. The porou… [+20271 chars]
We are carbon-based life forms. That means the basis for the chemical compounds that forms our life is the element carbon. It’s crucial because it bonds with other elements such as hydrogen and oxyge… [+5743 chars]
image: Valleytronics researchers have developed 2D material that significantly enhances the utility of exciting particles.view more Credit: Nano Research, Tsinghua University Press The emerging fi… [+8362 chars]
Get ready for space hydroponics. Interstellar Salad Earthly space travelers have been trying to perfect orbital botany for a while now. Stable, sustainable off world agricultural practices are need… [+1754 chars]
After a successful drilling of Avanavero, the team is ready to dig even deeper into our investigation of this new drill target. Tosol’s plan includes an important part of this process: our initial an… [+1327 chars]
In the science fiction film Pitch Black (now streaming on Peacock!), interplanetary travelers encounter a world inhabited by creatures who spend their entire lives in the dark. While there are certai… [+3628 chars]
Astronomers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and elsewhere have observed an ultraluminous X-ray source known as NGC 925 ULX-3 using NASA's Swift and NuSTAR spacecraft, as well as… [+3404 chars]
FORUM in action. Credit: ESA/Met Office / Météo-France / geoGraphics Edinburgh / Stevenage, 29 June 2022. – Airbus has been awarded a 160 million contract for ESAs FORUM satellite to help improve th… [+1148 chars]
