Volcanic glass was one of the first rocks mined by Man; its history adds to the necessity of mining as a species, evolution North of 60 Mining News August 5, 2022Unlike the European prospectors seeki… [+9439 chars]
What comes to your mind when you hear the word crater? We all know that the surface of the Moon has lots of craters. Even our solar system was built on impacts of objects in space. Earth too has been… [+2756 chars]
A team of physicists from UNLVs Nevada Extreme Conditions Lab (NEXCL) used a diamond anvil cell, a research device similar to the one pictured, in their research to lower the pressure needed to obser… [+5333 chars]
Want a surface that won't get wet? Grab some sandpaper. Rice University researchers have developed a simple method to make surfaces superhydrophobicthat is, very water-repellantwithout the chemicals… [+6130 chars]
A stunning new image from the James Webb Space Telescope captures the gorgeous Cartwheel Galaxy in never-before-seen detail. The telescope's composite image, released Tuesday (Aug. 2) furthers our … [+1841 chars]
by The Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences The manner in which animals penetrate a neighborhood searching for food shows similarities to the movements of li… [+6326 chars]
In 1610, Galileo Galilei peered through a telescope and observed, "I have seen Jupiter accompanied by three fixed stars, totally invisible by their smallness. The planets are seen very rotund, like l… [+6608 chars]
Famous sheep stop motion is about to go From Mossy Bottom Farm to the Moon. Shaun, the main character from the animated series “Shaun the Sheep”, has been allocated space on NASA. Artemis 1 Mission,… [+3554 chars]
Physicists have just caught light acting the part of 'glue' between atoms, in a kind of loosely bonded molecule. "We have succeeded for the first time in polarizing several atoms together in a contr… [+4564 chars]
Astronomers of the Subaru Strategic Program have discovered a possible Super Earth at a distance of 37 light-years from Earth. The discovery was made with the infrared spectrograph IRD on the Subaru … [+3524 chars]
In 2014, an object crashed into the ocean just off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Data collected at the time indicated that the meteorite just might be an interstellar object, and if that's true, the… [+5206 chars]
Revealing the potentially habitable climate of ancient Mars is a key part of NASA's mission to explore and understand the unknown, to inspire and benefit humanityand for 10 years, the Curiosity rover… [+6343 chars]
