Artists impression of the common-envelope evolution in a binary system J 1920. Credit: Jingchuan Yu Chinese and Australian Astronomers Find Direct Evidence for Binary Common Envelope Evolution A te… [+2251 chars]
An artist's rendering of the Swarm constellation. ESA The European Space Agencys Swarm mission is made up of three spacecraft circling Earth to study our planets magnetic field. And recently the sm… [+1739 chars]
The question of how the chemical composition of a proteinthe amino acid sequencedetermines its 3D structure has been one of the biggest challenges in biophysics for more than half a century. This kno… [+2782 chars]
At a dig site in China, a team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences working with a colleague from the Netherlands has uncovered the earliest known example of brood care in an insect. In … [+2429 chars]
Bad wireless reception, the noise in the radio signal or poor visibility in the fogall these annoyances have to do with the fact that waves such as visible light or microwave signals are deflected an… [+4893 chars]
A novel three-dimensional model of the fluid stored deep in Earth's crust along the Cascadia Subduction Zone provides new insight into how the accumulation and release of those fluids may influence s… [+4698 chars]
JWST released the deepest highest resolution view of the infrared universe earlier this week, with people amazed at the distant galaxies, gravitationally lensed by the galaxy cluster SMACS 0723. The … [+2246 chars]
The first stunning images from the James Webb Space Telescope were revealed this week, but its journey of cosmic discovery has only just begun. Here is a look at two early projects that will take ad… [+4717 chars]
Study co-author Agnieszka Wykowska pictured with the deceptively "self-aware" robot iCub. (Image credit: Italian Institute of Technology) (opens in new tab)An uncannily human-like robot that had bee… [+6940 chars]
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto seven years ago, but the probe's work is far from done. New Horizons is still on duty in extended mission mode, diving ever deeper into the Kuiper Belt… [+6179 chars]
More of the world's coastal glaciers are melting faster than ever, but exactly what's triggering the large-scale retreat has been difficult to pin down because of natural fluctuations in the glaciers… [+4129 chars]
The quantum vibrations in atoms hold a miniature world of information. If scientists can accurately measure these atomic oscillations, and how they evolve over time, they can hone the precision of at… [+7580 chars]
