China’s Mars sample return mission aims to collect samples from the Red Planet and deliver them to Earth in 2031, or two years ahead of a NASA and ESA joint mission, said a media report. According t… [+1505 chars]
The photoelectric effect is one of the most fundamental light-matter interactions, which is widely used in probing ultrafast dynamics in atoms, molecules and condensed matters. It has been in the res… [+2749 chars]
Plasmonic nanoshells have been accepted as effective nanomaterials for LDI-MS recognition of many small molecules, although their uses in mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) are not much established. A s… [+6152 chars]
On Sunday night, weird, spiralling light patterns in the night sky mystified and amazed New Zealand astronomers. Alasdair Burns, a stargazing guide on Stewart Island/Rakiura, received a text message… [+2385 chars]
A photographer was out camping when a SpaceX rocket shot across the sky in front of him and he was lucky enough to capture spectacular video footage of it. Justin Anderson was in Manitoba provincial… [+2887 chars]
There are plenty of places in the world to do breeding and farming, thanks to climate regulating technology. But sometimes when youre looking to breed better, more resilient crops, you need an enviro… [+2595 chars]
Tea is useful for all kinds of things, including caffeinating plenty of writers worldwide. There are also many varieties of it, some of which advocates claim to have superpowers regarding the health … [+3450 chars]
For the past 10 years, the Curiosity rover has traveled across the Martian terrain, looking for clues to the planets potentially habitable past. Recently, the car-sized robot drove through a transiti… [+2991 chars]
ByLouise Lerner, University of ChicagoJune 24, 2022 Billions of years ago, a river flowed across this scene in a Mars valley called Mawrth Vallis. A new study examines the tracks of Martian rivers t… [+7633 chars]
For millennia, our species looked at the Moon as a place that would forever be beyond our reach, but 20th-century technologies finally made our natural satellite accessible to probes, landers, and ev… [+1091 chars]
The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. These false color images may reveal subtle variations of the … [+2531 chars]
In May 1997, a large earthquake shook the Kermadec Islands region in the South Pacific Ocean. A little over 20 years later, in September 2018, a second big earthquake hit the same location, its waves… [+5637 chars]
