A group of researchers has succeeded in converting methane into methanol using light and dispersed transition metals such as copper in a process known as photo-oxidation. The reaction was the best ob… [+4423 chars]
Scientists grew "synthetic embryos" from mice cells without using sperm, eggs, or a womb. The process, a world first, was described in an issue of the peer-reviewed journal Cell on August 1. The t… [+3428 chars]
Pictures by Kerstin Joensson. Video by Denise Hruby and Kerstin JoenssonJumping from rock to rock to rock over a creek formed off Austria's Jamtal glacier, scientist Andrea Fischer worries that prec… [+3884 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope continues to astonish, with early data from one of its survey projects providing a tantalizing glimpse at some extremely distant and extremely old galaxies. Early data … [+2476 chars]
C60 molecules on a gold substrate appear more complex than their graphene counterparts, but have much more ordinary electronic properties. This is now shown by measurements with ARPES at BESSY II and… [+2912 chars]
In a recent study submitted to MNRAS, a collaborative research team utilized the first set of data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), discovering a galaxy candidate, CEERS-93316, that form… [+4090 chars]
The chance of someone being killed by space junk falling from the sky may seem ridiculously tiny. After all, nobody has yet died from such an accident, though there have been instances of injury an… [+5773 chars]
In the beginning, there was boredom. Following the emergence of cellular life on earth, some 3.5 billion years ago, simple cells lacking a nucleus and other detailed internal structure dominated the … [+9881 chars]
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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… [+3950 chars]
The Sun is back to its volatile best and it has led space experts to warn that a giant solar storm has been spewed out and it may be heading towards the Earth. This is expected to spark a dangerous g… [+1934 chars]
The fourth and final supermoon of 2022, known as the Sturgeon Moon, will occur on Thursday, August 11 at approximately 9:36 p.m. EDT and 6:36 p.m. PDT (Friday at 01:36 GMT.) Look to the southeaster… [+2807 chars]