Since copper has long been recognized to destroy viruses and bacteria on contact, it is often professionally coated onto surfaces that are frequently touched, such as doorknobs. A new copper nanowire… [+2417 chars]
Dinosaurs have captured peoples imaginations more than any other ancient creatures. These reptiles some large, some small; some carnivores and others herbivores rose and dominated the worlds landscap… [+5897 chars]
The CCDC says that 992 entries in its crystallography database are under investigation.Credit: Patrick McCabe/Alamy The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), a go-to resource for chemists s… [+6408 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… [+4305 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]
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]
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]
The worldwide distribution of one of the most important cereal pathogens is the result of human activity. Researchers at the University of Zurich have traced the history and spread of wheat powdery m… [+4109 chars]
Less than two years after shocking the science world with the discovery of a material capable of room-temperature superconductivity, a team of UNLV physicists has upped the ante once again by reprodu… [+4755 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 on Monda… [+2130 chars]
Newswise — Less than two years after shocking the science world with the discovery of a material capable of room-temperature superconductivity, a team of UNLV physicists has upped the ante once again… [+4848 chars]
Soil-dwelling nematodes depend on their sophisticated sense of smell for survival, able to distinguish between more than a thousand different scentsbut the molecular mechanism behind their olfaction … [+6212 chars]
