Although the particles of dark matter continue to allude us, astronomers continue to find evidence of it. In a recent study, they have seen its effect from the edge of visible space, when the univers… [+2895 chars]
An asteroid wider than two football fields will zoom past Earth in the wee hours of Thursday (Aug. 4). The asteroid is set to pass at 12:23 a.m. (ET). NASA astronomers discovered the asteroid , kno… [+2155 chars]
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have repurposed a 19th-century photography technique to create an elastic material that changes color when it is stretched. The team ther… [+2626 chars]
An international team of researchers has uncovered the reason that less lightning occurs over tropical oceans than over land. In their paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the group … [+2507 chars]
Researchers at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory have found the Earth is “spinning faster than normal”, which makes days shorter than usual. Scientists recorded the shortest day on record on Jun… [+362 chars]
Researchers at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory have found the Earth is “spinning faster than normal”, which makes days shorter than usual. Scientists recorded the shortest day on record on Jun… [+362 chars]
by Laura Herraiz Borreguero, Alberto Naveira Garabato and Jess Melbourne-Thomas, The ConversationWarmer waters are flowing towards the East Antarctic ice sheet, according to our alarming new research… [+4973 chars]
It was just a piece of junk sitting in the back of a lab at the MIT Nuclear Reactor facility, ready to be disposed of. But it became the key to demonstrating a more comprehensive way of detecting ato… [+8081 chars]
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Scientists at the University of Bristol have uncovered the deadly workings of a carnivorous plant.In the steaming jungles of Borneo, plants have evolved innumerable tricks to help them survive and ou… [+2180 chars]
In a recent study submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a collaborative research team has utilized the first set of data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discoveri… [+4576 chars]
It was just a piece of junk sitting in the back of a lab at the MIT Nuclear Reactor facility, ready to be disposed of. But it became the key to demonstrating a more comprehensive way of detecting ato… [+8081 chars]