Ultrafast pulses from X-ray lasers reveal how atoms move at timescales of a femtosecond. That's a quadrillionth of a second. However, measuring the properties of the pulses themselves is challenging.… [+3050 chars]
Piezoelectric materials can convert mechanical energy to electrical energy, and vice versa. In recent years, there has been growing interest in the search for two-dimensional (2D) layered piezoelectr… [+3294 chars]
All baby birds have a moment prior to hatching when their hip bone is a tiny replica of a dinosaur's pelvis. That's one of the findings in a new, Yale-led study in the journal Nature that explores t… [+3529 chars]
Robot lawnmowers around the world have been given an update to celebrate the Curiosity rover’s 10th year on Mars. An unusual global harmony is taking place today to celebrate the birthday of the “lo… [+1995 chars]
Alongside cultural heavyweights such as Disney's "Encanto" and Warner Brothers' "The Batman," a short film created at Goddard shares the screen next week at a festival honoring standout works of comp… [+4655 chars]
Psychologists from Durham University, UK have found in their study that bonobos produce a variety of signals including "baby-like" signals to strategically display distress when they are attacked by … [+4055 chars]
From the outside, the little pebble looks like an ordinary rock yellowish-brown, a little lumpy, and only aboutthree3 grams in mass. But beneath that brownish veneer, its studded with microscopic d… [+6901 chars]
Newswise — A study published recently in the prestigious journal Nature Ecology and Evolution has unveiled some of the key processes in marine microbial evolution. According to the study, led by the … [+3903 chars]
The researchers have learned about species-specific differences in neuron architecture. There are differences in the neuronal architecture of primates and non-primates. A multinational research tea… [+3661 chars]
NASAs Perseverance Mars rover is on a roll, having now collected and cached 12 samples of rock and soil during its ongoing explorations of the red planets Jezero Crater. In a tweet (below) posted on… [+2205 chars]
The asteroid, named Asteroid 2022 PE is expected to miss Earth by just a few millions miles, making it the third asteroid flyby in a week. In terms of space, million miles is not that much and any de… [+1909 chars]
Scientists have constructed the most complete and detailed single-cell map of embryo development in any animal to date, using the fruit fly as a model organism. Published in Science, this study, co-… [+6742 chars]
