As NASA continues plans for multiple commercial deliveries to the Moon’s surface per year, the agency has selected three new scientific investigation payload suites to advance understanding of Earth’s nearest neighbor. Two of the...
Killer whales have complex social structures including close “friendships,” according to a new study that used drones to film the animals.
The findings show that killer whales spend more time interacting with certain individuals in...
Two views of the carbonate chimneys at the Point Dume methane seep off southern California are covered with colorful microbial mats and permeated by methane-eating microbes. Credit: Courtesy of Courtesy of the Schmidt Ocean...
A herring gull chick and eggs. Credit: Prof Jon Blount
Chemical additives used in plastic production have been found in herring gull eggs, new research shows.
Phthalates are a group of chemicals added to plastics to...
Staining for RAD51 (bright cyan-colored dot) in a fertilized one-cell mouse embryo shows repair of a CRISPR-induced DNA break. Credit: Image courtesy of the researchers.
Novel method, developed by McGovern Institute researchers, may lead to...
Catalytic converters cut down on toxic car emissions, and, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, they’re one of the greatest environmental inventions of all time. Today, catalytic converter theft is on the rise,...
A team of physicists, including the University of Warwick, have proved that a subatomic particle can switch into its antiparticle alter-ego and back again, in a new discovery just revealed last week.
“This new result...
Illustration of the cyanobacterial thylakoid membrane. Credit: Luning Liu et al.
A new study conducted by the researchers at the University of Liverpool reveals how the ancient photosynthetic organisms – cyanobacteria – evolve their photosynthetic...
PhD student Tshepo Dipheko from South Africa. Credit: RUDN University
What sets chemistry apart from other natural sciences is the ability to get creative and find amazing solutions to long known problems.
A PhD student Tshepo...
Innovative New Nanotechnology Will Enable “Healthy” Electric Current Production Inside the Human Body
A new nanotechnology development by an international research team led by Tel Aviv University researchers will make it possible to generate electric...
Quantifying electric fields in semiconductor devices: The schematic shows electric field distribution in the channel of a GaN transistor; laser beams highlight the second harmonic generation (SHG) nature of the technique. Credit: Yuke Cao
Researchers...
Research team, L-R: Yuval Adiv, Yaniv Kurman, Professor Ido Kaminer, Raphael Dahan and Dr. Kangpeng Wang. Credit: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
A Spatiotemporal Symphony of Light
Using an ultrafast transmission electron microscope, researchers from...
The development is the work of specialists from the Institute of Industrial Sciences at the University of Tokyo.
Japanese scientists have created a new building material, for the production of which they used food waste,...
The Solar System is humanity’s space neighborhood, where all the lives of all humans will take place. Everyone knows about the Sun and the planets, but rarely does anyone know any more details about...
NASA’s 22nd SpaceX cargo resupply mission launches. Credit: NASA TV
The latest SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft is on its way to the International Space Station after launching at 1:29 p.m. EDT Thursday from NASA’s Kennedy...
Mechanisms of myocardial ischaemia, including the microvessels. Credit: European Heart Journal
For the first time, a prospective, international study has shown that chest pain caused by problems with the very small vessels supplying blood to...
Hackers attack 70 times per minute: what happens when a computer is left unsecured on the internet
Every device connected to the internet has a unique IP address. Those IP addresses are public, and they...
Amphiprion percula, a species of clownfish photographed in Kimbe Bay, Papua New Guinea. Credit: Tane Sinclair-Taylor
The distinctive white stripes in clownfish form at different rates depending on their sea anemone hosts, a PNAS study...
Hydrogen gas bubbles evolve from water at a thin layer of gallium oxynitride formed on gallium nitride surfaces. This work demonstrates the chemical transformation of gallium nitride into gallium oxynitride leads to sustained operation...
Most birds are located in the Northern Hemisphere
According to a new estimate, there are at least 50 billion individual wild birds in the world. House sparrows alone make up about 1.6 billion of them....