Last week, the Earth bid farewell to the gigantic Comet C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) and as it flew past our planet, it started its next journey to make the closest approach to the Sun. But as it moves clos… [+1711 chars]
When a single plate in an intermediate diaphragm breaks, grinding balls get into the inner construct of the diaphragm and can destroy it immediately. The breakage of a plate in a diaphragm entails re… [+1820 chars]
Rare deep-sea brine pools discovered in the Red Sea may hold clues to environmental upheavals in the region that span millennia, and could even shed light on the origins of life on Earth, a new study… [+5478 chars]
The freezing temperature of pollen washing waters A microliter droplet freezing assay, similar to that described by Whale et al.36, was used to investigate the ice nucleation ability of PWW made fro… [+21575 chars]
A study on the quantum processes titled "Time-reversal-based quantum metrology with many-body entangled states" has been published in the journal Nature Physics. Researchers from the Massachusetts I… [+1985 chars]
One look at the Planetary Decadal Survey for 20232032, and you will see some bold and cutting-edge mission proposals for the coming decade. Examples include a Uranus Orbiter and Probe that would st… [+12792 chars]
We spend roughly one third of our lives sleeping, and yet researchers still dont fully understand why we spend so much of our lives asleep. Decades of research have linked sleep with memory processin… [+2896 chars]
Researchers are investigating whether stem cells may grow better in zero gravity conditions than here on Earth. Researcher Dhruv Sareen's stem cells have made their way to the International Space St… [+1749 chars]
Astronomers have proposed a concept mission to fly a neutrino observatory into orbit around the sun to get a better picture of what's happening in the sun's core. Astronomers have very few tools to … [+2817 chars]
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Aerial shot of Meteor Crater aka Barringer Crater, near Winslow, Arizona. getty An international team of researchers has found that carbon-crystals formed during a high-energy shock wave from an as… [+2381 chars]
Using the San Pedro Martir Observatory and data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers have inspected two old open clusters (OCs) known as NGC 1798 and NGC 1193. Results of the study, published July … [+3679 chars]
