More than half a billion years ago, Earth experienced an almost-complete collapse of its magnetic field. It began in the early Cambrian period. Then, after a period of about 15 million years, the f… [+5978 chars]
The sun moves in such a predictable way across the sky that you might never suspect that its relationship with Earth is changing all the time. In fact, the average distance between Earth and the sun … [+7833 chars]
Imagine human beings have this tiny little band where you and I can tune in, and we find that that is less than a millionth of reality, Buckminster Fuller once said. Just think of it. This is reality… [+12690 chars]
NASA is getting ready for a new era of lunar exploration with the approach of the Artemis I mission launch. Ahead of eventually returning humans to the moon for the first time since the Apollo missio… [+2121 chars]
ByFAPESPAugust 6, 2022 How the pandemic and social isolation have altered how we perceive the passage of time. In the early stages of the epidemic, the majority of those who were confined to their … [+6532 chars]
Bicyclic Carbon FixationNREL scientists have designed a pathway for speeding up CO2 fermentation in some species of bacteria. The resulting moleculeacetyl-CoA, with its two unique carbon handles (C2)… [+5124 chars]
It is quite common to find anomalies around the vast universe and a team of researchers have recently discovered 11 undetected ones with seven of them being potential supernova candidates. In the new… [+1913 chars]
Major habitat shifts, such as moving to land from the sea, are key evolutionary events that often spark explosions of diversity. Until recently, it was unclear how frequent such habitat transitions h… [+2407 chars]
The surface of the Sun is filled with electrically charged gases that generate areas of powerful magnetic forces, known as magnetic fields. These electrically-charged hot gases on the Sun are constan… [+1540 chars]
Recent advances in neural science, robotics, and software have enabled scientists to develop a robotic system that responds to muscle movement signals from a partially paralyzed person relayed throug… [+5006 chars]
New experiments hone in on a never-before-measured region of strong force coupling, a quantity that supports theories accounting for 99 percent of the ordinary mass in the universe. Thomas Jefferson… [+9023 chars]
For now, scientists are calling the meteor CNEOS 2014-01-08, and they believe it to be about a half-meter wide. The object was first recognized by then graduate student Amir Siraj and Harvard profess… [+1239 chars]
