Jun 13 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Trinity College Dublin researchers have created luminescent, self-healing gels with a variety of potential applications ranging from counterfeiting bank notes to ne… [+5306 chars]
One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror segments was struck by a micrometeoroid and while it has been damaged, NASA says it’s not cause for alarm and the telescope is still on schedule… [+3349 chars]
To identify the genes, the researchers used data from 723,266 persons from 17 studies who had clinically diagnosed or self-reported hearing impairment and examined genetic tests previously conducted … [+4470 chars]
Newswise — Scientists who study materials can be divided into three categories. “You have people who make things, people who make things do things, and people who try to understand why things do what… [+8968 chars]
When our sun exhausts the hydrogen fuel in its core some 5 billion years from now, it will expand to become a red giant, engulfing the inner planets. The dynamics and possible outcomes of planetary e… [+2976 chars]
Somewhere across the universe, a magnetic field shrieked. Two stars -- created by the same stellar nursery, yet birthed on opposite ends -- appear to have found each other. But when these stars alig… [+4057 chars]
Bryné Hadnott, MSc: To tears and applause, Dr Jamila Pegues successfully defended her thesis on protoplanetary disks to a virtually crowded Zoom room of dozens of people, becoming the first Black wom… [+6098 chars]
Scientists from the Instituto de Astrofsica de Canarias (IAC) led an international study that found solid sulphur compounds in HH514, a jet of gas coming from the center of the Orion Nebula. There … [+3281 chars]
For tens of millions of years, our newborn Universe was shrouded in hydrogen. Bit by bit, this vast mist was torn apart by the light of the very first stars in a dawn that defined the shape of the em… [+3510 chars]
Every day, chemical factories produce a wide range of products that will be extremely difficult to do without in a modern society; everything from medicines like insulin and antibiotics to fertilizer… [+3434 chars]
The deep ocean is a dark place, yet deep-diving seals can easily locate their prey in that darkness. A multi-national research team has used field-based studies to better understand how seals use the… [+4516 chars]
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China’s Institute of Geochemistry and other organizations worked together to compile all known information about the moon’s surface in a new project … [+570 chars]
