Figure 1:The mathematical condition called thermomajorization indicates that there exists a thermal process that can change the state of the system from p to q. But the condition doesn’t indicate wha… [+9793 chars]
According to the scientists of a new 166-year case study of an Alaskan glacier that has been rapidly advancing and retreating, a cool pocket climate near a glacier’s snout may be able to help scienti… [+4890 chars]
<li>Park, C. K. & Horton, N. C. Structures, functions, and mechanisms of filament forming enzymes: a renaissance of enzyme filamentation. Biophys. Rev.11, 927994 (2019). PubMed PubMed Central… [+17541 chars]
An international team of astronomers reports the detection of highly collimated radio jets around a nearby radio galaxy known as NGC 2663. These jets, spanning a total of more than 1,150 light years,… [+3880 chars]
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has recently rocked the internet. From it's perilous multi-step launch to its stunning images of deep space and planets, the telescope is already revolutionizing ast… [+2717 chars]
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]
While the world of astronomy remained awed by the new images from the revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope, we're here to remind you that it's too early to write off the fantastic Hubble Space Te… [+2056 chars]
The prints are also helping us to distinguish different types of substructures. For instance, if youre looking at a filament in two spatial dimensions, it might actually be a two-dimensional sheet th… [+4292 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]
What happens when a massive star dies? Conventional wisdom (and observational evidence) say that it can collapse to form a “stellar-mass” black hole. Astronomers detect black holes by the X-ray emiss… [+4886 chars]
Scientists have developed an artificial protein that could offer new insights into chemical evolution on early Earth. All cells need energy to survive, but because the kinds of chemicals available d… [+3812 chars]
We’re all not living in outer space just yet, but it would probably be a good idea to be able to grow plants up there when the time comes, don’t you think? And some folks at the Space Plants Lab at … [+753 chars]