Space Exploration
Dec 12, 2023
Images: Moon, asteroids and new rockets topped the world's space news in 2023
The moon, asteroids and brand new rockets topped the world's space news in 2023.
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Astronomy
Dec 11, 2023
Scientists find evidence of a nearby kilonova 3.5 million years ago
Most of the times astronomers reported dramatic, cataclysmic events like neutron star mergers or the creation of a black hole; they are taking place light years away, typically in in another galaxy. While we can observe their ...
Nanophysics
Dec 11, 2023
Permselectivity reveals a cool side of nanopores
Researchers from Osaka University investigated the thermal energy changes across nanopores that allow the selective flow of ions. Switching off the flow of ions in one direction led to a cooling effect. The findings have ...
Archaeology
Nov 29, 2023
Genetic research into a 9,000-year-old shaman burial in Germany
The double burial of an adult woman and an infant, dating to about 7000–6800 BCE, discovered in 1934 during construction works at the spa gardens of Bad Dürrenberg, is regarded as one of the outstanding burial finds of ...
Astronomy
Nov 15, 2023
With unprecedented flares, stellar corpse shows signs of life
After a distant star's explosive death, an active stellar corpse was the likely source of repeated energetic flares observed over several months—a phenomenon astronomers had never seen before, a Cornell-led team reports ...
Astronomy
Nov 13, 2023
If you account for the Laniakea supercluster, the Hubble tension might be even larger
One of the great unsolved mysteries of cosmology is known as the Hubble tension. It stems from our inability to pin down the precise rate of cosmic expansion. There are several ways to calculate this expansion, from observing ...
Nanomaterials
Nov 8, 2023
Scaling up nano for sustainable manufacturing with self-assembling nanosheets
A new self-assembling nanosheet could radically accelerate the development of functional and sustainable nanomaterials for electronics, energy storage, health and safety, and more.
Astronomy
Nov 7, 2023
Supermassive black holes shut down star formation during cosmic noon, says astronomer
Since it became operational almost two years ago, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has produced countless breathtaking images of the universe and enabled fresh insights into how it evolved.
Astronomy
Nov 2, 2023
Astronomers observe supermassive black hole feeding and feedback on sub-parsec scales
An international research team led by Takuma Izumi, an assistant professor at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, has achieved a milestone by observing the nearby active galactic nucleus of the Circinus Galaxy, ...
Cell & Microbiology
Oct 26, 2023
Analysis finds diversity on the smallest scales in sulfur-cycling salt marsh microbes
At the surface, salt marshes and their windswept grasses can look deceptively simple. But those marshes are teeming with biodiversity, from the insects and migrating birds in the air all the way down to the microbes that ...
