An intermediate layer consisting of a few atoms is helping to improve the transport of spin currents from one material to another. Until now, this process involves significant losses. A team from Mar… [+2919 chars]
Summary: When learning how to coordinate a new movement, the nervous system first explores and evaluates many different coordinated patterns. With experience, the nervous system then adapts specific … [+6293 chars]
Distant galaxies, dark matter, dark energy and the origin and evolution of the universe itself are some of the many scientific goals of China's newly announced space telescope. If all goes according … [+5862 chars]
A Hubble image taken on Dec. 5, 2005 of the Main Belt asteroid 2001 SE101 passing in front of the Crab Nebula. (Image credit: © NASA/ESA HST, Image processing: Melina Thévenot) Astronomers have re… [+4618 chars]
Sperm meets egg, setting off a cascade of events leading to the creation of an embryo. But how do developing cellswhich all contain the same genetic informationdecide what to be when they grow up? Ho… [+4245 chars]
May 10 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Under the guidance of researchers, two international studies recently performed across Europe have stressed the crucial role that human behavior will play when it c… [+4689 chars]
Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Nestled 30 feet underground in Menlo Park, California, a half-mile-long stretch of tunnel is now colder than most of the universe. It houses a new superc… [+7991 chars]
The Antarctic ice is finding its secrets harder and harder to keep. Deep below the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, the largest ice sheet in the world, scientists have confirmed the existence of… [+3789 chars]
<ul><li>Giant asteroid the size of a building flies by earth Monday night.</li><li>Asteroid is officially named 467460 (2006 JF42).</li><li>It was 5.7 million kilometers from our planet.</li></ul> A… [+874 chars]
A bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus is widespread and generally harmless, but can cause infections known as "opportunistic infections." These occur when the bacteria take advantage of certain sit… [+3202 chars]
A new study lead by Dr. Ellen Coombs, who studied her Ph.D. at The Natural History Museum and University College London, has revealed for the first time that the diversity we see in whale (Cetacea) s… [+4132 chars]
In the near future, NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), China, and Roscosmos all mount crewed missions to the Moon. This will constitute the first time astronauts have walked on the lunar surface … [+8930 chars]
