Antarctica has long been a land of mystery and heroic feats made famous by the explorations of James Ross and Roald Amundsen, Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton. A key piece of the puzzle for unde… [+2383 chars]
A team of researchers from the National University of Defense Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology has developed a host of gear-based mechanical metamate… [+2668 chars]
In a university swimming pool, scientists and their underwater cameras watch carefully as a coiled shell is released from a pair of metal tongs. The shell begins to move under its own power, giving t… [+6764 chars]
Many of the basic natural processes are managed by molecular machines. These processes, which are integrated into the cellular environment, are crucial for both the intracellular and intercellular tr… [+3729 chars]
Using NASA's Fermi space telescope, Chinese astronomers have investigated a newly discovered millisecond pulsar known as PSR J18353259B. As a result, they identified gamma-ray pulsations from this so… [+3104 chars]
Although hurricanes are a result of global meteorological events, they have started to occur more regularly in Europe. The boundaries of differently shaped skyrmions (left) are found at coinciding p… [+3885 chars]
The Arctic Tern migrates an extraordinarily long wayfrom pole to pole. And while this bird is unique in the distance it traverses, its excellent sense of direction is shared by many other animals tha… [+2305 chars]
NanoAvionics sent a satellite into space with a selfie stick attached to a GoPro, which then transmitted back the world’s first spacecraft selfie in 4K. A GoPro Hero 7 was used to take the stunning… [+2622 chars]
Researchers at the University of Cologne and Masaryk University in Brno (Czech Republic) have discovered the fastest known star, which travels around a black hole in record time. The star, S4716, orb… [+2727 chars]
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a strategy roadmap to take it into the 2030s and beyond. The publication comes on the eve of much-anticipated images from the James Webb Space Telescope,… [+2397 chars]
An international team of astrophysicists has identified the location where powerful and highly energetic X-rays are being shot out into space from inside a region in space shaped like a giant aquatic… [+4292 chars]
Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) for the first time analysed a long-term sample series on microplastic pollution in the Northeast Atlantic from 2000 m wa… [+4869 chars]
