Scientists have detailed the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth. The landmark body of work will help reconstruct the history of life on Earth and guide the search for new minerals… [+4237 chars]
The reason why aphelion and perihelion exist is because the Earth has an elliptical orbit. Fourth of July is not only special for the United States of American, but also for the Earth. On this day, … [+1584 chars]
This Space Café Italy will feature Cinzia Zuffada, NASAs JPL Deputy Chief Scientist and President of the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF), in conversation with Dr.… [+2736 chars]
Earthquakes send seismic waves through the Earth’s layers at the same speed. The South Pacific Ocean’s Kermadec Islands region experienced a strong earthquake in May 1997. A second large earthquake s… [+4261 chars]
Ancient bones unearthed in China are helping scientists better understand the development, or evolution, of modern pandas. Pandas are a kind of animal called bears that live in forests in the mounta… [+3413 chars]
A recent solar storm near Earth may cause power outages after it disrupted satellites. The solar eruption snowploughed dense layers of plasma towards Earth, triggering geomagnetic storms in two sta… [+1966 chars]
Scientists who were surveying a catalog of gas clouds spotted something strange: five "blue blobs" composed of young blue stars in the Virgo galaxy cluster. Unusually, these stars were completely i… [+1980 chars]
Medical and life science researchers will benefit from the most comprehensive atlas yet of genetic data on zebrafish, newly published research suggests. The atlas will help researchers to better stu… [+2757 chars]
Researchers at New York University have created artificial Hox geneswhich plan and direct where cells go to develop tissues or organsusing new synthetic DNA technology and genomic engineering in stem… [+4671 chars]
<li>Wilson, D. E., Mittermeier, R. A. & Cavallini, P. Handbook of the Mammals of the World Vol. 1 (Lynx Edicions, 2009). </li><li>Meredith, R. W. et al. Impacts of the Cretaceous terrestrial rev… [+7699 chars]
The construction of compact semiconductors with reduced thickness and size is desirable for their application in microelectronic devices and transistors. However, measuring the parameters such as con… [+6751 chars]
In an article recently published in the open-access journal Materials, researchers discussed the gel evolution of green geopolymers based on copper tailings in marine environments. Study: Gel Evolut… [+6489 chars]
