The harder you hit somethinga ball, a walnut, a geodethe more likely it is to break open. Or, if it does not break open, it's more likely to at least lose a little bit of its structural integrity, th… [+3242 chars]
Since it landed on Mars in 2021, NASA's Perseverance Rover has been pottering around the red planet, doing what Dad does at Costco: quietly hoovering up samples. And just like Dad does with those tas… [+1662 chars]
When flying to the Haughton-Mars Project (HMP) base, the primary impression is one of a vast wasteland below. The reddish expanse of dirt and rock looks featureless and bleak, but in fact holds many … [+7603 chars]
Depending on the perspective one chooses, a theoretical calculation can describe observed physics more or less accurately. Back in 2015, Alessandro Toschi from the Institute of Solid State Physics at… [+5158 chars]
Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are evolved neutron stars with short spin periods that have gone through a long period of mass transfer in a low-mass X-ray binary phase. Globular clusters (GCs)conglomerat… [+3101 chars]
The San Andreas Fault in California is renowned for its large and infrequent earthquakes. However, some segments of the San Andreas Fault (SAF) instead are characterized by frequent quakes of small t… [+5779 chars]
When plants sense environmental challenges such as drought or extended periods of extreme temperatures, they instinctively reprogram their genetic material to survive and even thrive. The chemical co… [+4418 chars]
NEW YORK (AP) Todays sharks have nothing on their ancient cousins. A giant shark that roamed the oceans millions of years ago could have devoured a creature the size of a killer whale in just five bi… [+2751 chars]
Nation World News – In a new study, researchers found that the earliest known fruit-eating bird was an ancient bird called Jeholornis that lived 120 million years ago. Hundreds of animals living on … [+5224 chars]
The study of liquid droplets and their behavior upon impingement is of major importance in many fields, including agriculture, engineering, and medicine. Droplet behavior prediction has use in spray … [+3249 chars]
NEW YORK (AP) Todays sharks have nothing on their ancient cousins. A giant shark that roamed the oceans millions of years ago could have devoured a creature the size of a killer whale in just five bi… [+2751 chars]
A mathematical model for determining the safety of landing astronauts on Mars has been developed by space medicine experts from The Australian National University (ANU). The team simulated the impa… [+3841 chars]