ByScripps Research InstituteJuly 29, 2022 We think the kind of reactions weve described are probably what could have happened on early Earth, says Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy. The reaction generate… [+5314 chars]
For the first time in almost 5,000 years of observations, researchers have fully cataloged optical illusions created in the sky as light shines through ice crystals known as atmospheric halos. The … [+4843 chars]
The peak shooting star season has arrived with six meteor showers expected to pepper Earth in the upcoming weeks as the planet hurtles through fields of cometary debris. The image above captures a m… [+2677 chars]
Although we understand the modern deep-water cycle, we know very little about how it worked when earth was still a very young planet, lead researcher Michael Hartnady said in a media statement. Multi… [+1510 chars]
Although we understand the modern deep-water cycle, we know very little about how it worked when earth was still a very young planet, lead researcher Michael Hartnady said in a media statement. Multi… [+1510 chars]
Using an innovative microscopy method, scientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT observed how newborn neurons struggle to reach their proper places in advanced human brain ti… [+6321 chars]
Space junk from an old SpaceX mission may have landed in rural Australia. A chunk of charred material reportedly left over from the reentry of a SpaceX spacecraft was found in the middle of a sheep … [+4788 chars]
With the characterisations of potentially habitable planetary atmospheres on the horizon, the search for biosignatures is set to become a major area of research in the coming decades. To understand t… [+1480 chars]
Guess who came riding along with the passage of $US52 ($72) billion in incentives to manufacture semiconductors? Congress came in like a cowboy riding a rocket (think Dr. Strangelove), waving their n… [+3540 chars]
Zeta Ophiuchi has had an interesting life. It began as a typical large star about twenty times more massive than the sun. It spent its days happily orbiting a large companion star until its companion… [+3067 chars]
DONT DO IT, SPACE ACE! The New York Postrecently ran an article with the headline Astronauts should not masturbate in zero gravity, NASA scientist says. The article quickly went viral, leading peopl… [+3054 chars]
Astronomers have created the largest-ever 3D map of a million distant galaxies obscured by the Milky Way’s neighboring dwarf galaxies, the Magellanic Clouds. Magellanic clouds form irregularly gala… [+3130 chars]
