Published: 9:30pm, 6 Jul, 2022 Updated: 10:01pm, 6 Jul, 2022
Operators lost contact with the moon-bound CAPSTONE satellite yesterday (July 5) after completing a set of initial tasks following its separation from the rocket upper stage. CAPSTONE (short for "… [+2534 chars]
Andriy Nevidomskyy. (Courtesy: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University) For decades, quantum spin liquids were seen as largely hypothetical, with real-world examples thought to exist only in unusual systems suc… [+5690 chars]
Today's VIS image shows part of the southern margin of Candor Chasma. While not as deep as the northern regions of eastern Candor Chasma, the southern region contains all the features seen at the low… [+1472 chars]
"Frog sex death trap" sounds like the worst heavy-metal band name ever, but it's an accurate description of what happened 45 million years ago in a swamp in Germany. The spot, a former coalfield, i… [+1582 chars]
Deméré et al.10 identified lateral palatal foramina in a clade of stem mysticetes (Aetiocetidae) with adult mineralized teeth. This observation is important because it was the first attempt to infer … [+12169 chars]
Unistellar, the company behind a series of consumer-focused telescope cameras, has updated its Nocturne iPhone app to allow it to identify constellations, galaxies, nebulae, and planets. Nocturne ha… [+2660 chars]
Using the Pushchino Radio Astronomy Observatory (PRAO), Russian astronomers have carried out a search for rotating radio transients (RRATs). In a recently published paper on the arXiv pre-print serve… [+2997 chars]
Dinosaurs took over the planet thanks to their surprising ability to endure freezing-cold temperatures, ancient footprints have revealed. The dinosaur tracks, stamped into the sandstone and silts… [+4532 chars]
Germanium telluride is a strong candidate for use in functional spintronic devices due to its giant Rashba-effect. Now, scientists at HZB have discovered another intriguing phenomenon in GeTe by stud… [+4633 chars]
A research team of Chinese and American paleontologists suggest that the giant pandas' dedicated bamboo diet originated at least six million years ago. This finding was based on an analysis of a foss… [+470 chars]
Earth's magnetic field — also known as the geomagnetic field — is generated in our planet's interior and extends out into space, creating a region known as the magnetosphere. Without the magnetic … [+11064 chars]
