Venus has been called Earths evil twin, and that's notsadlybecause it looks just like Earth but has a mustache. This episode of The List Show dives into that intriguing moniker along with 99 other … [+611 chars]
Its cold and dim in the Solar Systems suburbs. Triton, the largest of Neptunes 14 known moons, gets 900 times less sunlight than Earth, and much of that light reflects off the icy worlds surface. Thi… [+1227 chars]
Look to the west-northwestern sky shortly after sunset on Wednesday (Aug. 3) to catch a glimpse of Mercury shining close to Leo's "heart," its brightest star Regulus. The pair will be close enough … [+2051 chars]
The Perseid meteor shower, one of the most anticipated and popular night-sky shows of the year, is likely to be upstaged by August's full moon. The Perseids are one of the strongest meteor showers o… [+3270 chars]
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Scientists from The University of Manchester have developed a novel yet simple method for producing vertical stacks of alternating superconductor and insulator layers of tantalum disulphide (TaS2). T… [+3390 chars]
Bioscientists from Durham University, UK and Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Germany have predicted in their latest research that bird communities will change worldwide in 2080 … [+4150 chars]
Photo credit: Twilight Zone Expedition Team 2007, NOAA-OE., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Sponges are outliers in biologys big bang, the Cambrian explosion. Their embryos appear in Precambri… [+8991 chars]
First attempts at visual acuity testing by optotypes Opticians realized earlier than ophthalmologists, that texts and their distance from the eyes were important for prescribing good glasses [30,31,… [+18091 chars]
Astronomers have discovered a 'super-Earth' orbiting a red dwarf star just 37 light-years from our solar system. The exoplanet Ross 508 b skims the so-called habitable zone of its parent star, th… [+4065 chars]
Newswise — Only one thousandth of a milligram of the bacterial botulinum toxin is necessary to kill a living organism. The toxin unfolds its lethal effect by preventing the release of neurotransmitte… [+3258 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]
