Irradiation with fast protons is a more effective and less invasive cancer treatment than X-rays. However, modern proton therapy requires large particle accelerators, which has experts investigating … [+4291 chars]
The image captured by the Hubble Telescope. The Hubble Telescope - which has been serving as the eyes of humans in deep space for decades - has captured the entire process behind the birth of a star… [+1890 chars]
video: Dipolar colloidal particles are driven out of equilibrium by a spinning magnetic field. The Rice University experiment demonstrates how gases, represented by the dispersed particles, and liqui… [+7043 chars]
The discovery photograph of Pluto found by Clyde W. Tombaugh of Lowell Observatory in 1930. Astronomers today suspect that there might be a previously unknown Planet 9 in the distant solar system, bu… [+4130 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]
image: Pictured is a continuously spouting cauldron of near-boiling water, one of a dozen spanning a 10-acre geothermal field at Mangra in southern Tibet. Helium-isotope geochemistry shows it sits ab… [+7027 chars]
One of the universe’s most enthralling mysteries is the existence of black holes. Nothing can pass through a black hole, not even light. In nearly every galaxy, there is a supermassive black hole tha… [+4754 chars]
(NASA) – The rover has racked up a series of accomplishments, including new distance records, as it reaches the end of the first of several planned science campaigns on the Red Planet. NASAs Perseve… [+5840 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]
A NASA spacecraft is on its way to slam into a space rock, but what happens next is still unclear. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ) mission launched in November and will arrive at its d… [+4387 chars]
<ul><li> Newly discovered blob-shaped structures are the biggest ones we’ve seen in Earth’s mantle so far.</li><li>Located low in the mantle layer, the blobs influence the motions of the mantle and… [+3112 chars]
Artists impression of a (now-disproven) candidate planet formerly thought to be orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, which is part of the triple star system closest to Earth. (Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/N… [+6214 chars]
