Ten years ago this week, two international collaborations of groups of scientists, including a large contingent from Caltech, confirmed that they had found conclusive evidence for the Higgs boson, an… [+8535 chars]
With its adorable stereo-camera eyes, the Lightweight Rover Unit 1 (LRU1) robot, posing on the black gravel of Italy's Mount Etna, resembles PIXAR's famous animated character WALL-E. LRU1 is one of a… [+3262 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]
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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]
According to a new study, the first louse to take up residence on a mammalian host likely started out as a parasite of birds. That host-jumping event tens of millions of years ago began the long asso… [+4221 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]
The climate crisis may be causing fish in the Antarctic to grow skin tumours, according to new research. A study by biologists at the University of Oregon found that fish they observed over a decade… [+293 chars]
NASA's acclaimed $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope was launched on 25 December 2021, in replacement of the Hubble Space telescope. Nearly seven months after its launch has finally produced image… [+5254 chars]
Astronomers have discovered the most distant galaxy rotation ever observed, implying an early stage of rotational motion development. Image Credit: Waseda University The galaxies appeared first aft… [+4525 chars]
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