On Monday (Aug. 1), a group of eight researchers and their associates headed north to the high Arctic to spend a month at the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) base on Devon Island, about 15 degrees south … [+4905 chars]
As warming ocean temperatures threaten the existence of coral reefs, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have successfully used an extremely high-resolution computer sim… [+4941 chars]
The Space Launch System will take off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. You must have watched Shaun the Sheep, a popular animated character. During our childhood, the show had us comple… [+2335 chars]
Scientists have now glimpsed the distribution of dark matter around galaxies 12 billion years ago, marking the earliest detection of the mysterious substance yet. In a new study, published Monday i… [+2325 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]
Article body copy Its nearly impossible to know how extinct animals behaved; theres no Jurassic Park where we can watch them hunt or mate or evade predators. But a developing technique is giving res… [+5766 chars]
One of the most frustrating hobbies I ever took up was archery, but not because its hard to hit a target on the wall (it is, but I got pretty good at that). My problem was that one of the popular way… [+3157 chars]
NASA's Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission will share a ride to space with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of … [+2891 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]
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]
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]
Landslides are one striking example of erosion. When the bonds that hold particles of dirt and rock together are overwhelmed by a force -- often in the form of water -- sufficient to pull the rock an… [+5472 chars]
