Newswise — “The instrument,” as it’s called, seems to take up the entire room. The sprawling molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system is all tubes, bolts, stainless steel components, and air-tight glass. … [+11136 chars]
A waddle of penguins queue in an orderly fashion as they leap through the air hopping from one ice floe to another. Photo: VCG The evolution of penguins from their flying seabird ancestors into the … [+4161 chars]
New study overturns previous ideas about how rocky planets form. (NASA image) The atmosphere on Mars may have formed in a way that contradicts current theories, say researchers at the University of … [+4904 chars]
In a win for biodiversity, scientists from George Washington University have discovered three new species of black-bellied salamander (Desmognathus quadramaculatus). These new species inhabit the sou… [+1994 chars]
Paleontology is undergoing a new renaissance. Since the mid-20th century, genomics has become the main focus of evolutionary biology. But the last few decades have shown how the study of fossils can … [+5814 chars]
China sent a pair of commercial remote sensing satellites into orbit with its 24th orbital launch of 2022. A Long March 2C rocket lifted off from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in north China a… [+1934 chars]
It was the early '90s when, on a trip to the Space Telescope Science Institute, Dave Meyer was met by an urgent message. "You've got to see this." Elsewhere in the building, image after image was … [+12902 chars]
Researchers are discovering that an uncommon disease epidemic in Antarctic fish may be caused by climate change. John Postlethwait and Thomas Desvignes, two scientists from the University of Oregon, … [+2889 chars]
Coalescent with recombination The coalescent with recombination models a backward in time coalescent and recombination process17. In this process, three different events are possible: sampling, coal… [+17125 chars]
With fossils dating back 500 million years ago, the well-preserved Burgess Shale in British Columbia is home to increasingly unlocked mysteries of the Cambrian Period, the era in which many of Earth’… [+1044 chars]
When it comes to astronomy, the more instruments watching the sky, the better. Which is why it has been so frustrating that the world’s rising superpower – China – has long lacked focus on space-scie… [+5051 chars]
Previous observations have detected faint infrared sources near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Although very high gas densities are required for stars to ove… [+2796 chars]
