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Materials Science Jun 18, 2021

Discovering new leads for functional materials guided by artificial intelligence

Searching for lead materials with specific properties, researchers have developed a workflow that incorporates artificial intelligence to guide discovery of a new ceramic structure with particularly low thermal conductivity. ...

Space Exploration Jun 16, 2021

Why is everyone so obsessed with going to Mars? Here are some other worlds ripe for exploration

Last month, China successfully landed and deployed the Zhurong rover on Mars, becoming the second country ever to set wheels on the surface of the red planet.

Materials Science Jun 9, 2021

Microscope reveals the secrets of a material's structure

EPFL scientists have made an important discovery about the structure of barium titanate, a material used in everyday objects. Their findings refute existing theories on the displacement of the material's atoms.

Evolution Jun 7, 2021

Meet Australia's largest dinosaur: Australotitan, the southern titan

What's as long a basketball court, taller than a b-double and has just stomped into the record books as Australia's largest dinosaur? It's time to meet Australotitan cooperensis—a new species of giant sauropod dinosaur ...

Nanophysics Jun 3, 2021

Strain-driven autonomous control of cation distribution for artificial ferroelectrics

Theoretical material design and experimental synthesis have advanced in the past few decades with a key role in the development of functional materials, useful for next generation technologies. Ultimately, however, the goal ...

Space Exploration May 10, 2021

From iron rain on exoplanets to lightning on Jupiter: 4 examples of alien weather

When Oscar Wilde said "conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative" he was unaware of some of the more extreme weather on planets and moons other than Earth.

Astronomy Apr 21, 2021

Bubble with titanium triggers titanic explosions

Scientists have found fragments of titanium blasting out of a famous supernova. This discovery, made with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, could be a major step in pinpointing exactly how some giant stars explode.

Space Exploration Apr 19, 2021

Why flying a helicopter on Mars is a big deal

NASA conducted its first flight on another planet early Monday morning, a short hop for a small chopper named Ingenuity which demonstrated technology that could prove critical to the future of space exploration.

Analytical Chemistry Apr 14, 2021

New properties of strontium titanate are significant for electronics research

While studying strontium titanate with electron paramagnetic resonance, a team from KFU's Center for Quantum Technology has found that the shape of a specimen of strontium titanate influences its internal symmetry. The research ...

Space Exploration Apr 7, 2021

Probing for life in the icy crusts of ocean worlds

Long before NASA's Perseverance rover touched down on the Red Planet on Feb. 18, one of its highest-level mission goals was already established: to seek out signs of ancient life on the Martian surface. In fact, the techniques ...

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