Using a new method, scientists are better able to distinguish between mirror-image substances. This is important amongst others in drug development, because the two variants can cause completely diff… [+3700 chars]
Waste disposal: A process based on alternating magnetic fields could help process the mountains of medical waste produced during the coronavirus pandemic. (Courtesy: iStock/Snezhana Kudryavtseva) Al… [+4362 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]
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope team has released a new edition in the Hubble Focus e-book series, called "Hubble Focus: Strange New Worlds." This e-book highlights the mission's recent discoveries abo… [+5600 chars]
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]
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 working withthe upgraded Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have discovered three never-before-seen particles, the European nuclear research center CERN said on Tuesday. The world's largest andm… [+1620 chars]
Nanoimprint lithography (NIL) is an advanced nanofabrication technique capable of creating patterns and structures smaller than 10 nm with low cost, high throughput, and high precision. Image Credi… [+7780 chars]
A newly released Hubble Space Telescope image shows the rim of a galactic "sombrero" shining in the dark. This galaxy is nicknamed the "Little Sombrero" for its hat-like appearance; its more officia… [+2323 chars]
A close-up image of one of the new crystals taken using an electron microscope. (Image credit: Taskaev et al.) (opens in new tab)Researchers have discovered never-before-seen types of crystal hidden… [+4268 chars]
Seen are six views of the Nili Fossae region of Mars captured by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging ... [+] Spectrometer for Mars, or CRISM, one of the instruments aboard NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Or… [+3156 chars]
