The near side of Earth's Moon, as seen using data from cameras aboard NASA's robotic Lunar ... [+] Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State Universi… [+3339 chars]
For palaeontologists this is a discovery far better than striking gold: miners working in The Yukon in northwestern Canada have uncovered a frozen baby mammoth while excavating permafrost. The anima… [+1840 chars]
The manipulation and use of gas in water have broad applications in energy utilization, chemical manufacturing, environmental protection, agricultural breeding, microfluidic chips, and health care. T… [+7929 chars]
Physical scientists seem to find the phenomenon of chaos everywhere: in the orbits of planets, in weather systems, in a rivers swirling eddies. For nearly three decades, ecologists considered chaos i… [+7461 chars]
A new Curtin University study has found that water was transported much deeper in the early Earth than previously thought, shedding new light on how the continents were originally formed. The study,… [+2751 chars]
Data from a NASA probe suggests lunar pits have comfortable temperatures due to their shadowy overhangs, which keep them cool during the day and prevent heat from escaping at night. Hard to believe … [+2328 chars]
New research has revealed that high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays that bombard the Earth from deep space originate in blazars — actively galactic nuclei (AGN) that lurk at the center of galaxies… [+4832 chars]
An international team of astronomers has found that certain short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) did not originate as castaways in the vastness of intergalactic space as they initially appeared. A deeper mu… [+4684 chars]
Nanoscientists and theoretical physicists at UNSW Medicine & Health's EMBL Australia Node in Single Molecule Science joined forces to demystify the complicated mechanisms governing how quickly tw… [+3768 chars]
At 5:29 am on the morning of 16 July 1945, in the state of New Mexico, a dreadful slice of history was made. The dawn calm was torn asunder as the United States Army detonated a plutonium implosion … [+4041 chars]
A team of scientists will soon head to the Aleutian Islands aboard the research vessel Sikuliaq on a voyage to reconstruct the region's ancient history of powerful storms. Little is known about the … [+4302 chars]
KITCHENER — Sam Nabi was sitting on a park bench in Victoria Park, staring up at the night sky, when something caught his eye. It was around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday when suddenly the night came alive, … [+2841 chars]