Before Earth existed, there were minerals. Some stood witness as the solar nebula stashed stardust and meteorites coalesced to form our rocky abode. But the centuries-old system for classifying miner… [+6190 chars]
Solar winds from the snapping of a gigantic "canyon of fire" filament on the Sun are set to slam into the Earth today (20 July) or tomorrow (21 July), triggering a weak G1 geomagnetic storm. Sun wat… [+4688 chars]
Greeshma Gadikota, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering in the College of Engineering, likes to take risks that other researchers wouldnt contemplate. She wants her projects to … [+1580 chars]
Gemini South, one of the world’s most productive and powerful optical-infrared telescopes, received a major capability boost with the successful installation of a new high-resolution spectrograph cal… [+5779 chars]
Title: Beyond UVJ: Color Selection of Galaxies in the JWST Era Authors: Jacqueline Antwi-Danso, Casey Papovich, Joel Leja, Danilo Marchesini, Z. Cemile Marsan, Nicholas S. Martis, Ivo Labbé, Adam Mu… [+7368 chars]
When it comes to astronomy, the more instruments watching the sky, the better. Which is why it has been so frustrating that the world’s rising superpower – China – has long lacked focus on space-scie… [+5051 chars]
NASA is considering sending "hyper-specialized" scientists to the International Space Station to work alongside career astronauts. The idea is by no means new, as NASA used to fly payload specialist… [+5560 chars]
In a win for biodiversity, scientists from George Washington University have discovered three new species of black-bellied salamander (Desmognathus quadramaculatus). These new species inhabit the sou… [+1994 chars]
A recent research study conducted by City, University of London's Professor Christoph Bruecker and his team has demonstrated that artificial whiskers, built as models of whiskers from sea lions, can … [+1595 chars]
Although hyperbolic phonon-polaritons were studied using near-field mapping in van der Waals crystals, their near-field signal complexity and the signal loss due to the nature of the substrate made i… [+6227 chars]
The motors are built from DNA strands arranged into triangular platforms attached to a long, rotating arm.Credit: A.-K. Pumm et al./Nature (CC BY 4.0) Physicists have built a molecular-scale motor e… [+4094 chars]
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