A team of astronomers led by Prof. Judd Bowman of Arizona State University unexpectedly stumbled…
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has conducted the first test of a new drilling technique on…
For the first time, astronomers have detected a signal from stars emerging in the early…
Electronics, the lifeblood of the modern world, could soon be part of our daily diet.…
A scientist with the Canadian Museum of Nature has answered a long-standing mystery about why…
“Cosmologists are often wrong but never in doubt,” Russian physicist Lev Landau once said. In…
Plant cells are under tremendous pressure. To prevent themselves from bursting, plants had to come…
Many patients with heart disease have a metal stent implanted to keep their coronary artery…
A Leicester mathematician has developed a theory to explain ‘heating by cooling,’ where the temperature…
Polymeric carbon nitrides exhibit a catalytic effect in sunlight that can be used for the…
Scientists have discovered a novel chemical state of the element manganese. This chemical state, first…
A new explanation for the Moon’s origin has it forming inside the Earth when our…
The most important active ingredient against malaria can now be produced in a considerably more…
Wind and solar power could generate most but not all electricity in the United States,…
Researchers have developed an imaging technique that uses a tiny, super sharp needle to nudge…
Brown dwarfs, the larger cousins of giant planets, undergo atmospheric changes from cloudy to cloudless…
A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has discovered that specific genes are…
It’s amazing what a difference a little water can make. The Moon formed between about…