Inside Earth, elements such as iron and aluminum experience such extreme temperatures and pressures that the materials ooze through Earth’s interior—on geological timescales—like sap moves through a … [+2671 chars]
All hail the king of the planets, newly arrived in the evening sky. Jupiter is currently rising in the night sky around midnight on the eastern horizon, dominating at an impressive -2.5 magnitude. (… [+2155 chars]
image: Conventional nanoscale imaging is usually difficult to perform for large, micron-scale samples owing to drifts caused by thermal effects and vibrations. Now, researchers from Japan address thi… [+4917 chars]
A particularly fascinating phenomenon arises for proteins that contain a topological knot in their polypeptide backbone, that is, proteins that would not fully disentangle after being pulled from bot… [+2149 chars]
A supercomputer simulation shows massive stars forming (red) in a cloud of ancient gas. (Image credit: University of Portsmouth / Nature) Twinkling like cosmic lighthouses on a shore 13 billion ligh… [+3831 chars]
An asteroid the size of a 50-story skyscraper will zoom past Earth Sunday (July 17), making its closest approach to our planet in nearly 100 years. The meaty space rock, dubbed 2022 KY4, will safely… [+1836 chars]
Life in the Arctic is harsh. Arctic temperatures are punishing, making life difficult for many animals to survive. Yet lots of insects, including mosquitoes, manage to thrive in the frozen region. So… [+3810 chars]
ByMIT Department of Civil and Environmental EngineeringJuly 15, 2022 This image shows self-organized, spherical clusters of cells that decompose alginate. Differences in fluorescence indicate differ… [+4582 chars]
In the fairy-tale landscape of the Isle of Skye off the north-west coast of Scotland, the skull of one of the most ancient salamanders ever discovered to date was excavated from Jurassic limestones. … [+6219 chars]
That's a new one! Chef's Kiss NASA's beloved Perseverance Mars rover discovered something particularly strange as it traversed the Red Planet a coiled mess of unidentified, string-like material tha… [+1439 chars]
Newswise — Did the boy bite the cat, or was it the other way around? When processing a sentence with several objects, one has to establish ‘who did what to whom’. When a sentence cannot be interpret… [+5102 chars]
NASA commissioned an independent review Thursday (July 14) to look in detail at the issues delaying its Psyche mission well into 2023. The Psyche spacecraft, which had been targeting launch this fal… [+3869 chars]
