According to co-authors Robert Hazen and Shaunna Morrison, once mineral genesis is factored in, the number of mineral kinds — a newly-coined term — totals more than 10,500, a number about 75% greater… [+3760 chars]
A lot of heat gets lost during the conversion of energy. Estimates even put it at more than 70%. However, in thermoelectric materials, such as those being studied at the Institute of Solid State Phys… [+4272 chars]
How many people have ever lived? And how many will ever live? Those are questions the latest video from Kurzgesagt, which is German for in a nutshell or in summary, tackles. It’s easy to feel pessimi… [+1826 chars]
Nicholas Cowan. Credit: McGill University. Nicolas Cowan, Professor at McGill University and a member of both iREx and the McGill Space Institute, is one of the finalists for the Relève Scientifique… [+2041 chars]
It was on Independence Day 25 years ago that a little rover named after a Civil War abolitionist parachuted and tumbled to the Red Planet's surface on airbags. NASA's first-ever Mars rover, dubbed S… [+4225 chars]
COSMOS Ever since the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched late last year, scientists have been looking forward to this highly advanced instrument starting to gaze at
By firing lasers finer than a human hair at tiny grains of a mineral extracted from beach sand, Curtin researchers have found evidence of an almost four billion-year-old piece of the Earth's crust th… [+2867 chars]
Astronauts on space missions lasting longer than six months suffer decades' worth of bone loss, much of which could be irreversible, a new study has found. The finding may present a serious challenge… [+6362 chars]
Powerful radio pulses originating deep in the cosmos can be used to study hidden pools of gas cocooning nearby galaxies, according to a new study appearing in the journal Nature Astronomy. So-called… [+4389 chars]
Nicholas Cowan. Credit: McGill University. Nicolas Cowan, Professor at McGill University and a member of both iREx and the McGill Space Institute, is one of the finalists for the Relève Scientifique… [+2041 chars]
Anne Boucher, an iREx student at the Université de Montréal, submitted her doctoral thesis at the end of 2021. She summarises the research project she carried out as part of her Ph.D here. During my… [+2899 chars]
The Large Hadron Collider resumed scientific operations on Tuesday after a three-year hiatus for repairs and upgrades, opening a new chapter in physicists longstanding quest to understand the fundame… [+537 chars]
