The deepwater sculpin is not an attractive fish by any conventional standard. You won't find it hanging on a plaque or landing a feature role in a Disney movie.What you might say about the bottom-dwe… [+4225 chars]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Tuesday announced that it has lost contact with a $32.7 million Capstone spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit. … [+1884 chars]
Neodymium is an element, and in the absence of significant amounts of any other material, it exhibits glassy behavior in its crystalline state, in contrast to ordinary spin glasses where magnetic ele… [+1688 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]
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]
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
A very small instrument has a big job ahead of it: measuring all Earth-directed energy coming from the sun and helping scientists understand how that energy influences our planet's severe weather, cl… [+6071 chars]
An ozone hole, seven times larger than the Antarctic ozone hole, is currently sitting over tropical regions and has been since the 1980s, according to a Canadian researcher. In AIP Advances, Qing-Bi… [+3283 chars]
Currently we can find web pages on the internet that offer us various digitally generated cartographic views. In them we can check different aspects related to the world and the people who inhabit it… [+3367 chars]
Article body copy This article was originally published in bioGraphic, an independent magazine about nature and conservation powered by the California Academy of Sciences. The nautilus inhabited t… [+26172 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]
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]
