Such a phenomenon has been theorized to exist before and is explained by the fact that as gas descends into a supermassive black hole, brilliant flares of X-ray emissions are produced -- exactly as s… [+1980 chars]
Computer simulations are most often used as a guide so chemists can more efficiently work out the exact details of a general reaction idea they have in mindmuch like a compass helps guide an explorer… [+4318 chars]
About a decade ago, Vivianne Solis-Weiss, a marine biologist at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México who studies marine worms, talked to a colleague studying seagrasses, flowering plants that grow… [+8041 chars]
Humans, animals, plants and all other lifeforms are built from chiral molecules, bound together to form asymmetric organelles, cells, and organs. However, the cause of this broken symmetry and, by ex… [+977 chars]
It was an eye-opening week for Earth science as an international team of climate researchers warned that the potential to end humanity is "dangerously underexplored." They note that unexpected conseq… [+2678 chars]
Such a phenomenon has been theorized to exist before and is explained by the fact that as gas descends into a supermassive black hole, brilliant flares of X-ray emissions are produced -- exactly as s… [+1980 chars]
Become a Spotlight guest author! Join our large and growing group of guest contributors. Have you just published a scientific paper or have other exciting developments to share with the nanotechnolog… [+51 chars]
A new instrument, recently attached to the International Space Station, has taken its first look at Earth, revealing the chemical composition of mineral dust from Australian deserts. The instrument,… [+2887 chars]
The European Southern Observatory's Picture of the Week shows a stunning view of our home galaxy - the Milky Way - as it stretches over the Atacama Desert in Chile. The Atacama Desert is home to ESO… [+1725 chars]
Celebrating International Cat Day, the European Space Agency (ESA) has shared a purrfect picture of a nebula resembling the felines on Earth. Located three thousand light-years away from Earth, the n… [+1865 chars]
Earth keeps on pulling objects in outer space towards itself because of its strong gravitational pull. But imagine if every object starts hitting or crashing into the planet! Such events are rare tho… [+4213 chars]
The faith of astronomy lovers in the James Webb Space Telescope is now being exploited through pranks, an example of which surfaced recently. The prankster was a scientist named Étienne Klein, who is… [+2467 chars]
