Typically, black holes spin really fast — near the speed of light. But astronomers have noticed that one monster black hole is spinning much more slowly than most smaller black holes. The finding m… [+2771 chars]
A new study of a fossil cache sheds fresh light on the evolutionary history of insects and spiders, notably the brain, eyesight, and head shape. The fossils comprise well-preserved remnants of the br… [+1932 chars]
3-D printing: A means of producing physical items including toys, foods and even body parts using a machine that takes instructions from a computer program. That program tells the machine how and whe… [+6478 chars]
HELSINKI China has set its sights on near-Earth object 202 PN1 as the target for a combined asteroid deflection and observation test mission due to launch in 2026. The new details of the near-Earth … [+2947 chars]
Single-cell level protein analysis utilizing mass spectrometry (MS) with picolitre sample volumes needs sensitivity in the range of zeptomole to attomole. An article published recently in the journal… [+6203 chars]
5 with 5 posters participating Behavior that we'd consider intelligent is oddly widespread in the animal kingdom. Animals with very different brains from oursa species of octopus and various birdsen… [+5674 chars]
No seashell required. A NASA scientist and his programmer brother have made an online program that turns ocean data into sound. The pair have worked on the project for the past 18 months, hoping to… [+841 chars]
Waste heat is a very promising source of energy conservation and reuse, by means of converting this heat into electricity -- a process called thermoelectric conversion. Commercially available thermoe… [+2357 chars]
Hundreds of distant red giant stars in another galaxy are the upcoming targets of an upcoming James Webb Space Telescope observation. The researchers behind the proposal hope that by looking at sta… [+3069 chars]
China will launch its first solar probe, the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), in October. The 888-kilogram satellite, scheduled to depart from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, has … [+484 chars]
<li>Deiana, R. Limportanza dellapproccio multidisciplinare: considerazioni a valle del progetto dellUniversità di Padova sulla Cappella degli Scrovegni. In La Cappella degli Scrovegni nellanfiteatro … [+8095 chars]
When Galileo pointed his telescope at Jupiter 400 years ago, he saw three blobs of light around the giant planet, which he at first thought were fixed stars. He kept looking, and eventually, he spott… [+9276 chars]
