Earthworms are a welcome sight for gardeners and farmers because the wriggling invertebrates recycle nutrients from soil, making them more accessible to plants. As worms burrow, they consume almost e… [+3243 chars]
It's dawn on December 25, 2021. Your finger is hovering, shakily, over the ultimate button. You're about to launch a $10-billion space telescope called the James Webb Space Telescope on its journey … [+6301 chars]
Scientists have recently observed a large planet at an early stage of formation. The planet is already nine times the mass of Jupiter. The researchers used the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii and the Hub… [+3063 chars]
NASAs Moon-bound mega-rocket suffered another setback Monday, failing its wet dress rehearsal, which could deal a huge setback to NASAs biggest rocket since the Apollo-era Saturn V. According to N… [+4054 chars]
A team of scientists in Japan captured video of squid camouflaging with their surroundings, much like octopuses and cuttlefish do. Whilesquid in the wild are known to change color, the scientists set… [+3362 chars]
Activity on the solar surface sends a series of explosions and energy blasts into space. The Earth is expected to be hit by a solar storm on Wednesday and Thursday due to ramped up activity by the S… [+1777 chars]
Graphical abstract. Credit: Chemistry of Materials (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c03513 The next generation of catalytic converters could have longer lifetimes and need fewer rare materials to… [+4844 chars]
A new, elegant equation allows scientists to easily compute the quantum information lifetime of 12,000 different materials. Scientists have uncovered a mathematical shortcut for calculating an all-i… [+4785 chars]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Physicists from Paderborn University have developed a novel concept for generating individual photonstiny particles of light that make up electromagnetic radiationwith tail… [+2110 chars]
SpaceX is on the verge of sending its first space tourism mission to the International Space Station. The private space firm has shared images of the Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule that will fly… [+2925 chars]
NASA's venerable space telescope has captured a stunning new view of a galaxy with an active black hole obscured by tendrils of dark dust. The spiral galaxy , known as NGC 7172, is located about 11… [+1743 chars]
Physicists in Finland have created a pumpkin-shaped atomic nucleus that throws off protons in a rare kind of radioactive decay. The nucleus, lutetium-149, has the shortest half-life of any of a gro… [+2328 chars]
