The evolutionary relationships among grassesincluding important crop plants like wheat, rice, corn, and sugarcanehave been clarified in a new molecular study of the grass family tree. Having a clear … [+5388 chars]
A "Potentially Hazardous Asteroid" is due to cross the Earth's orbit on the evening of March 4th, 2022 with a velocity of 12.017 km/s. The asteroid named, "2001 CB21" has been classified by NASA JPL … [+1212 chars]
Mollusk shells at 4,000-year-old Native American shell ring villages indicate that environmental change may have driven the formation and abandonment of these coastal communities, according to a stud… [+3891 chars]
Many coronal loops — ropey strands of plasma that scientists have long thought existed in the Sun’s atmosphere — may actually be optical illusions, according to a new paper that challenges prevailing… [+7260 chars]
The Inouye Solar Telescope captured a glorious close look at a sunspot in February 2022. NSO/AURA/NSF We're getting to know our sun like never before thanks to space missions like NASA's Parker Sol… [+1537 chars]
Scientists have redesigned a key component of a widely used CRISPR-based gene-editing tool, called Cas9, to be thousands of times less likely to target the wrong stretch of DNA while remaining just a… [+4989 chars]
A crescent-shaped crater in Northeast China holds the record as the largest impact crater on Earth that formed in the last 100,000 years. Prior to 2020, the only other impact crater ever discovered … [+2818 chars]
A rare spectroscopy technique performed at Swinburne University of Technology directly quantifies the energy required to bind two excitons together, providing for the first time a direct measurement … [+5696 chars]
The Inouye Solar Telescope captured a glorious close look at a sunspot in February 2022. NSO/AURA/NSF We're getting to know our sun like never before thanks to space missions like NASA's Parker Sol… [+1537 chars]
Heart Failure: An investigation into the hidden killer in remote Australian communities "We stand back and watch children, time after time again, year after year, decade after decade, having still t… [+1733 chars]
Associate Professor Stephan Rachel When you hear the words time crystal you could be forgiven for imagining something fantastic like a magic crystal ball or a device for time travel. But time crysta… [+5857 chars]
Newswise — Qubits, the building blocks of quantum computers, can be made from many different technologies. One way to make a qubit is to trap a single neutral atom in place using a focused laser, a t… [+4484 chars]
