By Will Dunham WASHINGTON – An immense crater in northwestern Greenland, buried under a thick sheet of ice and first spotted in 2015, is much older than previously suspected – formed by a meteorite … [+3871 chars]
In the simplest terms, superconductivity between two or more objects means zero wasted electricity. It means electricity is being transferred between these objects with no loss of energy. Many natur… [+4500 chars]
In the simplest terms, superconductivity between two or more objects means zero wasted electricity. It means electricity is being transferred between these objects with no loss of energy. Many natur… [+4499 chars]
Having never evolved wings, many species of spider instead evolved an uncanny ability to take to the skies using nothing more than a few short threads of gossamer dangling from their dainty butts. J… [+3535 chars]
NASA's Psyche mission, which will investigate one of the most metal-rich asteroids ever observed, 16 Psyche, is edging ever nearer to liftoff. The Psyche spacecraft just had its twin solar arrays in… [+3065 chars]
Graphene, which consists of a single layer of carbon atoms, is the poster child of carbon-based 2D nanomaterials. It has many attractive properties that could be exploited in next-generation electron… [+3512 chars]
Axiom Mission 1 is a mission to the International Space Station by the Houston-based Axiom Space that will be the first fully private crew to the orbiting complex. It is scheduled to launch on March … [+12259 chars]
China's Yutu 2 rover, which has completed three years on the Moon, has beamed back an intriguing panoramic picture of its location. The rover had landed on the far side of the Moon in January 2019 at… [+1966 chars]
The Perseverance Rover of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) rolling on the surface of Mars has picked up a rock in one of its six wheels. The latest image shared by the space o… [+2501 chars]
What happens to information after it has passed beyond the event horizon of a black hole? There have been suggestions that the geometry of wormholes might help us solve this vexing problem but the ma… [+3719 chars]
The knobby, 3D structure on the screen in front of Rachel Green showed an intracellular car wreck never before seen by scientists. It also confirmed a hypothesis a team in her lab had been working on… [+5023 chars]
Researchers have provided the first plausible explanation to why one of the most massive black hole pairs observed to date by gravitational waves also seemed to merge on a non-circular orbit. Their s… [+7336 chars]
