Starting materials Starting materials included synthetic silicates and mixtures of metal Fe+Fe7N3±FeS±Si powder. The first three silicates (refer to as G-1, G-2, and G-3) had major element compositi… [+46309 chars]
Scientists have finally discovered what the material that is being spat out of an asteroid is but not exactly how it is happening. The discovery is a step towards understanding a phenomenon that ha… [+2868 chars]
Structure and functional analysis of tRNA-Asp-AUC. (A) Predicted structure of the SPC6 tRNA-Asp-AUC. Solid circles represent G:C base pairs and open circles represent A/G:U base-pairs. (B) Relative e… [+3945 chars]
Astronomers said last week that the world's largest radio telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile, might've picked up a signal from the youngest exoplanet discovered to d… [+4768 chars]
A crustacean kept in an aquarium in Japan has now been found to be a new species. The discovery adds to the almost two dozen known species of giant isopods (Bathynomus) massive crustaceans that seem … [+3151 chars]
In a quest to shed light on the origins of life and the formation of the universe, researchers are scrutinising material brought back to earth in 2020 from the asteroid Ryugu. TOKYO - Water may have… [+2115 chars]
Australia’s newest supercomputer, Setonix, has created a highly-detailed image of a supernova remnant using an enormous amount of data collected by the ASKAP (Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfi… [+2579 chars]
Astronomers have conducted photometric and spectroscopic observations of a binary system known as TIC 60040774. Results of the observational campaign shed more light on the properties of this system,… [+3359 chars]
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and has the third largest diameter in the solar system, yet it's commonly overlooked and joked about due to its name. James Webb Space Telescope project sci… [+2459 chars]
<li>Christoffels, A. Africa needs another million PhD scientists to develop homegrown solutions. Quartz Africahttps://qz.com/africa/1290710/africa-needs-one-million-more-scientists/ (2018). </li><li… [+1104 chars]
NASA is all set to make an attempt to re-route an asteroidthrough the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) next month. The US Space agency will crash a 500kg spacecraft into binary asteroid 65803 … [+1611 chars]
Below Europa's thick icy crust is a massive, global ocean where the snow floats upwards onto inverted ice peaks and submerged ravines. The bizarre underwater snow is known to occur below ice shelves … [+3924 chars]