A FRENZY of solar storms has erupted from the Sun this week and it could lead to dazzling showings of the Northern Lights. A total of 17 have been captured by Nasa observatories exploding from the s… [+3834 chars]
Strange lumpy terrain on Pluto unlike anything previously observed in the solar system indicates that giant ice volcanoes were active relatively recently on the dwarf planet, scientists said on Tuesd… [+2850 chars]
The CIC biomaGUNE Molecular and Functional Biomarkers group has developed a rapid, cost-effective, synthetic, microwave method for producing ultra-small manganese ferrite nanoparticles that act as ad… [+4563 chars]
Invasive exotic species are considered one of the main causes of the current biodiversity crisis. In recent years, humans have introduced 200 species of ant from outside of their natural area of dist… [+5386 chars]
A POSTECH research team led by Professor Gil-Ho Lee and Gil Young Cho (Department of Physics) has developed a platform that can control the properties of solid materials with light and measure them. … [+2867 chars]
What if you could predict where the worlds hidden mammal species lurked? Researchers at Radford University and Ohio State University think they can do just that. Their findings were published Mon… [+4660 chars]
Over 400 years ago, Galileo shattered humanity’s understanding of the cosmos when he realized that Earth wasn’t the center of the universe, and that our world orbited the Sun, proving Nicolaus Copern… [+1081 chars]
UCLA scientists have discovered a new source of super-fast, energetic electrons raining down on Earth, a phenomenon that contributes to the colorful aurora borealis but also poses hazards to satellit… [+4951 chars]
Using the MeerKAT radio telescope, an international team of astronomers has detected 13 new pulsars in the globular cluster NGC 1851. Twelve of them turned out to be millisecond pulsars (MSPs). The d… [+3366 chars]
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Although they are currently the greatest predators on land, its likely that modern-day cats wouldnt have been a match for the newly discovered Diegoaelurus vanvalkenburghae. At around 42 million year… [+6013 chars]
Stem cells can develop into many different types of cells in the body. For instance, when a person is injured, stem cells come to the site of the injury and aid in healing damaged tissues. New nanote… [+3365 chars]