On it's way to a perihelion of 48 million kilometres from the Sun, ESA's Solar Orbiter has captured the most detailed full disc image of the Sun from a distance of 75 million kilometres, about half-w… [+3548 chars]
The Arctic is warming along with the rest of the planet, and as this is happening, its permafrostperennially frozen arctic soil that holds a lot of trapped organic matter from dead plantsis thawing. … [+3806 chars]
The way electrons flow in materials determine its electronic properties. For example, when a voltage is sustained across a conducting material, electrons start flowing, generating an electrical curre… [+4705 chars]
Young children are not just cheeky monkeys it turns out they actually laugh like chimpanzees, too. That's because both babies and chimps chuckle while inhaling and exhaling, unlike adult humans who … [+3545 chars]
American astronaut of Iranian descent Jasmin Moghbeli has been selected to travel to the International space Station on the Crow-7 SpaceX mission. Moghbeli is a US Marine Corps test pilot and NASA a… [+828 chars]
Astronomers are spotting near-Earth objects more frequently. NASA The same astronomer who recently discovered a small asteroid just a few hours before it smashed into our atmosphere has spotted ano… [+1384 chars]
Pizza dough starts with all the same ingredients you find in bread: flour, salt, water, and yeast. Or so you might think. The United States of pizza is vast and wide, and with all that variety, you k… [+4013 chars]
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Enlarge/ Astra's LV0009 takes off from Kodiak Island, Alaska, on March 15. 39 with 22 posters participating Welcome to Edition 4.36 of the Rocket Report! As I took last week off for Spring Break, t… [+7755 chars]
How does a boa constrictor breathe while squishing its prey in its coils? When the snake tightens its coils around an animal, its own ribs also come under pressure from the snake’s own contracting mu… [+7378 chars]
On April 15, planetary scientist and NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins will launch to the International Space Station and, as such, will likely be in space when the agency's Artemis 1 mission launches t… [+7195 chars]
X-ray crystal structure of the mononuclear iron 2-diphosphorus complex. Credit: Figueroa Lab Group, UC San Diego / Curtis Moore, Ohio State University The elements on the periodic table of elements … [+5240 chars]
