Astronomers in the UK announce today that have established how galaxies like our own Milky Way formed over 10 billion years of cosmic time through an abundance of separate galaxies colliding together… [+4009 chars]
Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, will do something astonishing this month. The moon will pass in front of a distant star later this month, obscuring the light of a distant star from Earth’s view. While th… [+2323 chars]
Qubits are a basic building block for quantum computers, but they're also notoriously fragile -- tricky to observe without erasing their information in the process. Now, new research from the Univers… [+5268 chars]
<ul><li>Astronomy researchers have identified what may be the first identification of a single black hole drifting across the galaxy.</li><li>Two teams of researchers studied studied six years of Hub… [+5307 chars]
Astronomers have developed a new model for simulating how clusters of baby stars form and evolve, helping to explain how bubbles of ionized gas are created away from the heart of a galaxy. Stellar n… [+3034 chars]
In a paper published today in Science Advances, researchers at the University of Oxford have developed a method using the polarization of light to maximize information storage density and computing p… [+3593 chars]
Printed Electronics World The skin of cephalopods, such as octopuses, squids and cuttlefish, is stretchy and smart, contributing to these creatures' ability to sense and respond to their surrounding… [+2895 chars]
A team of researchers led by Dr. Sebastian Hess from the University of Cologne's Institute of Zoology has studied the expression of carbohydrate-active enzymes in the unicellular organism Orciraptor … [+3303 chars]
Samples collected by China’s lunar lander Chang’E-5 have delivered the first definitive confirmation of the evidence of native water on the Moon. The lander collected samples from the Moons Oceanus P… [+2975 chars]
<li>Geim, A. K. & Novoselov, K. S. The rise of graphene. Nat. Mater.6, 183191 (2007). CAS Article Google Scholar </li><li>Wang, Q. H., Kalantar-Zadeh, K., Kis, A., Coleman, J. N. & St… [+4559 chars]
This week marks the tenth anniversary of the first big survey of microbial diversity in the human body, published in Nature by the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Consortium, of which I was a member. … [+4874 chars]
A blueprint for measuring calcium carbonate on the ocean floor could help marine scientists monitor coral reef health around the globe. Climate change and pollution from human activities are irrever… [+3735 chars]
