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… [+3084 chars]
Data We used seven SMILEs: CESM1-CAM551 (including 40 ensemble members), CSIRO-Mk3-6-052 (30), CanESM253 (50), EC-EARTH54 (16), GFDL-CM355 (20), GFDL-ESM2M56 (30) and MPI-ESM57 (100). Monthly temper… [+22326 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 occurs when a very large… [+4666 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]
Astronomers have watched the young binary star system SVS 13 for decades. Astronomers don’t know much about how planets form around proto-binary stars like SVS 13, and the earliest stages are especia… [+8761 chars]
New Delhi: One of the most celebrated scientists of this century, Stephen Hawking left the world on this day in 2018. The theoretical physicist was known for some of his incredible contribution to th… [+1537 chars]
The race for space has quietly intensified in parallel with the geopolitical competition unfolding here on Earth. China, for example, has made great strides in its space programs and is looking to ta… [+6389 chars]
LGBT+ physicists often face harassment and other behaviors that make them leave the profession, according to a new study, which comes as physics as a discipline has attempted to grapple with equity a… [+6296 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]
Enlarge/ Illustration of a swarm of smaller black holes in a gas disk rotating around a giant black hole. 42 with 21 posters participating In 2019, the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration picked up a gravitat… [+2915 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]
Around 500,000 people in the UK live with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), a life-long, chronic condition characterised by sporadic bouts of gut inflammation causing debilitating symptoms. Crohn's D… [+5937 chars]
