While the James Webb space telescope has been delivering unprecedented images of deep space, the Mars rover Curiosity continues to cover the Red Planet and recently reached a milestone. How old is M… [+1420 chars]
NASA released the first images from the James Webb space telescope in July and the spacecraft hasn’t stopped yet. On top of official image releases, the raw data captured by the telescope has yielded… [+2109 chars]
Stable rotating black holes If a black hole is stable, it will eventually revert to Kerr's mathematical description, even after receiving an intense jolt from gravitational waves. If these black hol… [+1354 chars]
Sample preparation Polycrystalline La1.875Ba0.125CuO4 was synthesised by a solid-state reaction. Stoichiometric amounts of pre-dried La2O3 (99.99%, Sigma Aldrich), BaCO3 (99.95%, Alfa Aesar), and Cu… [+21761 chars]
A ravenous bat, a group of elephants seeking shelter and a bubble-breathing lizard are just some of the photos in an amazing showcase of natures wonderful creatures unveiled in this years BMC image c… [+4889 chars]
Likely to survive in the oral cavity, bacteria have evolved to divide along their longitudinal axis without parting from one another. A research team co-led by environmental cell biologist Silvia Bul… [+4504 chars]
A black hole is usually where information goes to disappearbut scientists may have found a trick to use its last moments to tell us about the history of the universe. In a new study, two astrophysic… [+5135 chars]
<li>Masuda, H., Ebata, A. & Teramae, K. Alteration of thermal conductivity and viscosity of liquid by dispersing ultra-fine particles. In Dispersion of Al2O3, SiO2 and TiO2 ultra-fine particles (… [+12086 chars]
The flow of time from the past to the future is a central feature of how we experience the world. But precisely how this phenomenon, known as the arrow of time, arises from the microscopic interactio… [+3732 chars]
Today's VIS image shows the upper elevations of Olympus Mons, including part of the summit caldera. Scarps and extensional features (graben) record multiple stages of caldera collapse at the summit o… [+1114 chars]
Despite loads of circumstantial evidence for the existence of dark matter — the mysterious form of matter that dominates galaxies and clusters — astronomers have yet to make direct observations of i… [+5947 chars]
Settlements on the Moon have a certain poetic appeal, but scientists have long understood the complications required to achieve this goal. Lack of oxygen, cosmic radiation, and temperature extremes a… [+4799 chars]