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]
ByColumbia University School of Engineering and Applied ScienceJuly 27, 2022 Latent embeddings from our framework colored by physical state variables. Credit: Boyuan Chen/Columbia Engineering A new… [+5128 chars]
image: Researchers have created a photoacoustic imaging endoscope probe that can fit inside a medical needle with an inner diameter of just 0.6 millimeters. Tianrui Zhao, first author of the paper is… [+6111 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]
A key to potentially finding habitable planets rests in Nieuwland Hall of Science at the University of Notre Dame, after an extended journey. Packed in six crates — one of which was only a half-inch… [+5296 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]
The chance of someone being killed by space junk falling from the sky may seem ridiculously tiny. After all, nobody has yet died from such an accident, though there have been instances of injury and … [+5736 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]
The ancestors of modern mammals developed the ability to regulate their own body temperatures, which might have been useful in cool climates.Credit: Luzia Soares Ear fossils hint at origin of warm b… [+4917 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]
Any movement beneath our feetfrom barely perceptible subsidence to the sudden appearance of a sinkhole or a crashing landslidespells big trouble. Even relatively modest subsidence can weaken building… [+5404 chars]
National University of Singapore chemists have discovered how acetate esters could be electro-synthesized from water and carbon monoxide in an environmentally sustainable way. The electrocatalytic r… [+2710 chars]
