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]
An enzyme that combats the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O) may one day give scientists a potent new tool for reducing the amount of the gas in the atmosphere thanks in part to new findings publish… [+2372 chars]
On Monday, July 25, NASA shared a stunning Mars image. It displayed the surface of the red planet with sand dunes that form small hilly crests. However, the top of the crests were covered in a blue c… [+2015 chars]
A textbook process called “Ostwald ripening,” named after the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Wilhelm Ostwald, has directed the design of new materials such as nanoparticles for decades. These are tiny m… [+3492 chars]
ByBill Steigerwald, NASA Goddard Space Flight CenterJuly 27, 2022 Artists rendering of NASAs Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center Scientists have discovered shade… [+5891 chars]
A team of researchers from Aarhus University and the Institute for Integrative Biology, ETH Zürich, has found that moths are major clover pollinators. In their paper published in the journal Biology … [+2544 chars]
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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]
Isolated mysterious blasts of intense energy that previously couldn't be traced back to galactic sources could originate from incredibly dim galaxies located as far away as 10 billion light-years. A… [+4332 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]
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 … [+5585 chars]
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