Unexpectedly, the scientists found a unique microbial population that can metabolize sulfur and atmospheric gases, resembling the microorganisms detected in deep-sea hydrothermal vents or geothermal…
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What a whole Aepyornis egg would have looked like when freshly laid, seen in a market near the town of Toliara on the southwest coast…
A research camp at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide. Credit: Bradley Markle University of Colorado at Boulder scientists and an international team of…
James Webb Space Telescope artist’s conception. Credit: NASA-GSFC, Adriana M. Gutierrez (CI Lab) In a new study, an international team of astrophysicists has discovered several…
The recent discovery of the material offers new possibilities for utilizing polymer materials in innovative ways, particularly in the field of soft robotics, where you…
Artist’s depiction of the Orion capsule reentering Earth’s atmosphere. Credit: NASA NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency…
Scientists used bright green lasers and camera equipment to reveal how tiny water droplets, invisible to the naked eye, are rapidly ejected into the air…
A rendering of the entangled atoms within the interferometer. Credit: Steven Burrows, Thompson Group/JILA A team of researchers at JILA has for the first time…
By exposing a honeycomb-like material with a specific kind of magnetic field, yellow arrow, researchers can create order among the loop currents, light blue, within…
An obscure family of viruses, already endemic in wild African primates and known to cause fatal Ebola-like symptoms in some monkeys, is “poised for spillover”…
New research reveals that just a handful of universities seem to control the flow of ideas and people in academia. One of those universities is…
A powerful enough laser beam could blind spy satellites. According to a recent report in The Space Review, Russia is building a new ground-based laser…
The scientists cultivated coccolithophores, which create the greatest amounts of new calcium carbonate on the planet, and do so more quickly than coral reefs, using…
The theory of relativity usually encompasses two interrelated theories by Albert Einstein: special relativity published in 1905 and general relativity published in 1915. Special relativity…
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft is the first Mars orbiter specifically designed to study the planet’s upper atmosphere and its interaction with…
This illustration shows the accretion disk, corona (pale, conical swirls above the disk), and supermassive black hole of active galaxy 1ES 1927+654 before its recent…
The moon’s Orientale Basin as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA GSFC Billions of years ago, a series of volcanic eruptions raged on…
The crystal structure of a layer of graphyne, not to be confused with graphene. Credit: Yiming Hu CU Boulder scientists have successfully synthesized graphyne, which…
Hypersonic missiles can change course to avoid detection and anti-missile defenses. Credit: U.S. Air Force On March 18, 2022, Russia launched a hypersonic missile against…
This is a 2013 photo of the Alder Fire in Yellowstone National Park. Credit: Mike Lewelling, National Park Service New analysis confirms a palpable change…