Ten years ago, as a new PhD graduate looking for my next position, I found myself in the academic cold. Nothing says you are an outsider more than a paywall asking US$38 for one article. That fuelled… [+5319 chars]
The fact that global warming will increase temperatures over land masses, increasing the frequency of droughts and heat waves, is a certainty -- as is the fact that climate change will alter the aver… [+4881 chars]
Rice University engineers Sibani Lisa Biswal and Kedar Joshi discover unusual properties in magnetized colloids that surprisingly adhere to the physics described by Kelvins equation, which models the… [+4943 chars]
Curtin researchers have recovered a freshly fallen meteorite after pinpointing its exact location on the vast Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia, with a new technique that uses a drone to collect f… [+2802 chars]
De-extinction is the process of resurrecting species that have died out or gone extinct. This seems to have provided some people an opportunity to expand diversity of species and bring back animals w… [+3189 chars]
An international group of researchers led by geologists from Wits University in Johannesburg have come up with multiple lines of evidence indicating that the Bushveld Complex in South Africa function… [+2447 chars]
Astronomers have captured the moment a star, 500 million light years from Earth, exploded in a dramatic supernova, marking the end of its life. A type II supernova explosion happens when a very larg… [+4705 chars]
Ten years ago, as a new PhD graduate looking for my next position, I found myself in the academic cold. Nothing says you are an outsider more than a paywall asking US$38 for one article. That fuelled… [+5319 chars]
Scientists first thought that having a thinner nearside crust allowed magma in the Moons mantle to ascend and volcanically erupt on the surface more easily than the farside, explaining the nearsides … [+2722 chars]
Zoom/ Illustration of a swarm of small black holes in a gas disk orbiting a supermassive black hole. Samsing / Niels Bohr Institute In 2019, the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration caught a gravitational wave… [+2869 chars]
Art It looks as if the universe was designed by a Romantic painter. Great glowing clouds of smoke and mist hang in the void with twinkling stars spangled within them. Instead of lonely bright dots i… [+3725 chars]
Earth could be hit by a series of mild geomagnetic storms on Monday and Tuesday (March 14 and 15) after a moderate solar flare blasted out of the sun's atmosphere several days ago, according to gover… [+2934 chars]
