Unlocking a 140-Year-Old Secret Mystery in Physics
Semiconductors are the basic building blocks of today’s digital, electronic age, providing us with a multitude of devices that benefit our modern life, including computers,…
Semiconductors are the basic building blocks of today’s digital, electronic age, providing us with a multitude of devices that benefit our modern life, including computers,…
Will the Sun become a black hole? No, it’s too small for that! The Sun would need to be about 20 times more massive to…
Polystyrene persists in the environment for millennia, according to some international governmental agencies. This estimate is based on the amount of time required for microbes…
The first all-electric configuration of NASA’s X-57 Maxwell now is at the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. The X-57, NASA’s first all-electric…
After successfully launching Thursday night, NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) spacecraft is in orbit for a first-of-its-kind mission to study a region of space where…
Start thinking about numbers and they can become large very quickly. The diameter of the universe is about 8.8×1023 km and the largest number with…
A new material that can selectively capture carbon dioxide (CO2) molecules and efficiently convert them into useful organic materials has been developed by researchers at…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope sees galaxies of all shapes, sizes, luminosities, and orientations in the cosmos. Sometimes, the telescope gazes at a galaxy oriented…
New microbial research at the University of Copenhagen suggests that ‘survival of the friendliest’ outweighs ‘survival of the fittest’ for groups of bacteria Bacteria share…
UC Riverside astronomers find large-scale winds associated with active black holes in small galaxies suppress star formation. Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside, have…
Liquid metal catalysts show great promise for capturing carbon and cleaning up pollutants, requiring so little energy they can even be created in the kitchen….
Newly understood factors make ice shelves more vulnerable to breakup according to College of Wooster, University of Colorado at Boulder study. According to a recent…
Quantum computers with the ability to perform complex calculations, encrypt data more securely, and more quickly predict the spread of viruses, may be within closer…
New research sheds light on the ages of ice deposits reported in the area of the Moon’s south pole — information that could help identify…
A study published by researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) shows that polystyrene, one of the world’s most ubiquitous plastics, may degrade in decades…
Rare skull of 8-foot-long gar discovered in University of Chicago-Field Museum paleontology course. Each summer, the University of Chicago welcomes high school students from around…
Proposed bridge would have been the world’s longest at the time; new analysis shows it would have worked. In 1502 A.D., Sultan Bayezid II sent…
The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon’s south pole has helped to renew interest in exploring the lunar surface, but no…