Last month NASA's Perseverance rover snapped an image of the martian surface that caused the internet to claw for answers at what was seen in the image. Perseverance managed to capture a strange str… [+904 chars]
ESA has admitted defeat and declared the mission of its Sentinel-1B spacecraft is at an end after attempts to deal with a borked power bus ended in failure. The issue was an unwelcome Christmas gift… [+3133 chars]
One of the most powerful volcanic eruptions on the planet blasted such a massive amount of water vapor high into the atmosphere that it's likely to temporarily warm the Earth's surface, according to … [+3730 chars]
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]
Physicists are (temporarily) augmenting reality to crack the code of quantum systems. Predicting the properties of a molecule or material requires calculating the collective behavior of its electron… [+4088 chars]
Its a half-peeled banana? Nope. A semi-melted water gun? Not even close. (Courtesy: DeepCCZ expedition, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation/NOAA) It's a sea cucumber - a marine animal characterize… [+1705 chars]
Researchers at the University of Bristol and Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre have discovered that super-eruptions occur when huge accumulations of magma deep in the Earth's crust,… [+3585 chars]
Bacteria are among the smallest living organisms known on Earth and can be found everywhere, sometimes even in extreme conditions. Some of these live in cold environments very similar to those that m… [+3068 chars]
A harmful and often deadly substance made by bacteria, a bacterial toxin manipulates host cell functions and disrupts vital cell processes in a living organism. Bacterial toxins hit host organisms wh… [+4264 chars]
In a first for radio astronomy, scientists have detected millimeter-wavelength light from a short-duration gamma-ray burst. This artist's conception shows the merger between a neutron star and anothe… [+8090 chars]
by IMBA- Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Researchers from the Gerlich Group at IMBAInstitute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciencesdis… [+4552 chars]
Researchers at the Universities of Bayreuth and Linköping have produced two surprising compounds of nitrogen and the rare earth metal yttrium under very high pressure. The new polynitrides contain ri… [+4202 chars]
