Don’t Be Fooled by the Peaceful Look of This Vast Galaxy — It Keeps a Violent Secret
This remarkable spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651, may look serene and peaceful as it swirls in the vast, silent emptiness of space, but don’t…
This remarkable spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651, may look serene and peaceful as it swirls in the vast, silent emptiness of space, but don’t…
Scientists at Cranfield University are working on a new test to detect SARS-CoV-2 (the coronavirus that causes COVID-19) in the wastewater of communities infected with…
Researchers have developed the first blood test that can accurately detect more than 50 types of cancer and identify in which tissue the cancer originated,…
Research led by the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research has anchored a long sequence of tree rings, providing context for the civilizations that…
New dates for fossils indicate land animal turnover extended for hundreds of thousands of years. The mass extinction at the end of the Permian Period…
A community of flying reptiles that inhabited the Sahara 100 million years ago has been discovered by a University of Portsmouth palaeobiologist and an international…
After undergoing a series of performance and environmental tests, NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster – Commercial (NEXT-C) is being prepared for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test…
Benzene: Solving a Mystery in 126 Dimensions One of the fundamental mysteries of chemistry has been solved by a collaboration between Exciton Science, UNSW, and…
A quantum sensor could give Soldiers a way to detect communication signals over the entire radio frequency spectrum, from 0 to 100 GHz, said researchers…
The discovery of a new species of dromaeosaurid — a family of generally small to medium-sized feathered carnivores that lived during the Cretaceous Period —…
Researchers hope to make a dent in hospitals’ need with a single 3D printer. Northwestern University researchers have demonstrated the ability to generate 1,000 components…
The ice giant Uranus appears to be losing a bit of its atmosphere to space, perhaps siphoned away by the planet’s magnetic field. Eight and…
Humans have been studying the light from stars since the beginning of our history; however, we’ve only just discovered in the last few decades that…
In a new study, researchers found that half of the patients they treated for mild COVID-19 infection still had coronavirus for up to eight days…
Constantly being told to wash your hands? Us, too. So we’re diving into the chemistry behind why soap is so effective against viruses like the…
MIT chemists are testing a protein fragment that may inhibit coronaviruses’ ability to enter human lung cells. The research described in this article has been…
NASA has selected SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, as the first U.S. commercial provider under the Gateway Logistics Services contract to deliver cargo, experiments and other…
A new collaborative study with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) reveals a possible collision of two neutron stars earlier in…