What can regular folks learn from Nasa's new James Webb Telescope?With Nasa's James Webb telescope having recently shown us astounding images of what the universe looked like over 13 billion years ag… [+1812 chars]
A team of astronomers have used the ALMA telescope to find a slowly-rotating galaxy in the early universe. That galaxy is the youngest ever found with a measured rotation, and it’s much slower than p… [+2115 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]
<li>Dionisio, F., Matic, I., Radman, M., Rodrigues, O. R. & Taddei, F. Plasmids spread very fast in heterogeneous bacterial communities. Genetics162(4), 15251532 (2002). CAS PubMed PubMed … [+14118 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]
The creation of a black hole is intrinsically tied to the lifecycle of very massive stars. During what is known as the main sequence lifetime of a star it is using hydrogen as a fuel for a process ca… [+1551 chars]
On the right, ytterbium ions are trapped in a vacuum chamber and probed with lasers, which create a blue glow. These tests let the MIT group determine each isotope’s energy levels. Traditionally, to… [+7603 chars]
View larger | Hubble Space Telescope view of Earth-sized bruises on Jupiter, caused by Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9’s spectacular multiple impacts with the giant planet in 1994. This image is from a few da… [+7005 chars]
Antarctica's skies turned a spectacular pink colour recently, likely because of aerosols released into the atmosphere by the an underwater volcano eruption from the start of the year. Stuart Shaw, … [+1909 chars]
Russia's Soyuz MS-13 spacecraft carrying members of the International Space Station launches from Kazakhstan in July 2019. Photo: Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP/FileSource: AFP New feature:Check out news… [+3969 chars]
Astronomers from the University of Warwick reveal a new phenomenon dubbed the "rocking shadow" effect that describes how disks in forming planetary systems are oriented, and how they move around thei… [+2744 chars]
Groundwater that was recently discovered deep underground in a mine in South Africa is estimated to be 1.2 billion years old. Researchers suspect that the groundwater is some of the oldest on the pl… [+4767 chars]
