Virgin Galactic has successfully taken its first passengers to space, including its billionaire founder Richard Branson. The event, at Spaceport America in New Mexico, was…
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Magnetic flux density (magnetization) map obtained using the transport of intensity equation analysis. Credit: Masahiro Nagao “Topological defects” are formed when the symmetry of a…
Frog eggs like those pictured here release zinc when fertilized, much like mammalian eggs do. Credit: Image by Tero Laakso/licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 Scientists…
July 8, 2021 The first hurricane of the Atlantic season made a series of landfalls and dropped abundant rain from the Caribbean to the U.S.…
Melissa Wong spent more than a decade working for major retail brands before founding Retail Zipline. That kind of outrageous advantage — a complete understanding…
Three images of Jupiter show the gas giant in three different types of light — infrared, visible, and ultraviolet. The image on the left was…
The benefits provided by AI and machine learning are pretty well established. The technology can help businesses automate processes, gain insight through data analysis, and…
Bigon Rings: Researchers described the mathematics that underlie many forms created from thin strips of flexible material. The techniques could assist to form materials that…
Though writing by hand is increasingly being eclipsed by the ease of computers, a new study finds we shouldn’t be so quick to throw away…
This photo of sea ice on the Wandel Sea north of Greenland was taken August 16, 2020, from the German icebreaker Polarstern, which passed through…
Image of the fireball in February 28, 2021. Credit: UK Meteor Observation Network Scientists are set to uncover the secrets of a rare meteorite and…
Bitumen surface imaged with different microscopic techniques: AFM (topography image) and AFM-IR (chemical distribution — IR absorption at 1262 cm-1). Credit: TU Wien Although the…
Twitter has appointed a resident grievance officer in India days after the American social media firm said to have lost the liability protection on user-generated…
CLSY3 (fused with a yellow fluorescent protein) is specifically expressed in the tapetal cells surrounding the germ cells. Credit: John Innes Centre Hereditary information is…
Mandible of small antelope in calcrete. Credit: Philip Kiberd Evidence from an ancient eggshell has revealed important new information about the extreme climate change faced…
A paper based on joint research by Prof. YUAN Changzheng from Institute of High Energy Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Prof. Marek Karliner from Tel Aviv University of Israel, was…
The innovative material that creates green energy through mechanical force. A new nanotechnology development by an international research team led by Tel Aviv University researchers…
Exciton-polaritonic PT symmetry: Direct coupling between upward- and downward-polariton modes in a six-fold symmetric microcavity with loss manipulation leads to PT-symmetry breaking with low-threshold phase…
Virgin Galactic is set to launch its first passengers to space tomorrow morning, and you can watch the whole thing right here. The launch is…
The monolayer of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is sandwiched between two protective layers of boron nitride (hBN), with molybdenum rhenium (MoRe) contacts extending through the upper…