Researchers have created a photoacoustic imaging endoscope probe that can fit inside a medical needle with an inner diameter of just 0.6 millimeters. Photoacoustic imaging, which combines light and s… [+4393 chars]
Fifty-six million years ago, Earth endured a heat wave that lasted 170,000 years. The event, known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), ushered in a wave of evolutionary shifts. New resear… [+5647 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]
Scientists have discovered how naturally occurring but unstable molecules, known as free radicals, can control the fundamental process of cell division, which, when it goes wrong, can lead to uncontr… [+6012 chars]
Black holes are a fixture of science fiction -- whether it's the time-warping regions of space seen in the 2014 movie Interstellar to the all-consuming planet destroyers of Star Trek. But while Holly… [+1820 chars]
HONG KONG (July 27): Debris from a Chinese rocket is set to crash to Earth some time over the next few days, with the potential for wreckage to land across a wide swathe of the globe. Part of a Lon… [+3567 chars]
What an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth looked like on July 25, 2022 at 07:16 UTC, as seen by NASA's ... [+] Solar Dynamics Observatory. NASA It seems almost unbelievable, but the Earth is now ecli… [+4335 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]
The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO), officially named Danuri, is the Korea Aerospace Research Institute's (KARI) first exploratory space mission outside of Earth's orbit. Danuri will launch o… [+5229 chars]
Robots have discovered 39 potential new species at the bottom of the ocean. Researchers at the Natural History Museum in London said the undescribed organisms represent a fraction of the undiscovere… [+2529 chars]
Today, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria re-launched its plant biodiversity website, VicFlora. The new portal features upgrades that allow users to identify Victoria's plants more easily. It is based on… [+3581 chars]
Jul 27 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Excessive cooling events, defined as Heinrich Events, in the North Atlantic during the last glacial period are a perfect example of how local processes affect globa… [+5360 chars]