Extreme rainfall as a driver of volcanic hazards. (a) Pleistocene volcanic sector collapses of Volcán de Colima, Nevado de Toluca, Citlaltépetl and Cofre de Perote (Mexico), reproduced after Capra et… [+4144 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]
In a recently published review in the journal Materials Today, different avenues of nanotechnology in architecture, as well as the challenges in employing these techniques and the relevant opportunit… [+4796 chars]
High protein feeding promotes high lamina propria IgA production and higher secretion of luminal sIgA To determine how dietary macronutrients might affect sIgA and thus host-microbiota mutualism, we… [+34569 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]
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]
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]
There is always something new and exciting happening in the field of black hole research. Albert Einstein first published his book explaining the theory of general relativity which postulated black … [+5164 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]
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]
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]
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]
