Using an inexpensive polymer called melaminethe main component of Formicachemists have created a cheap, easy and energy-efficient way to capture carbon dioxide from smokestacks, a key goal for the Un… [+8871 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]
Summary: Study reveals the molecular mechanism that allows neural networks to grow and branch out. Source: Yale Our nervous system is composed of billions of neurons that speak to one another throu… [+4355 chars]
<ul><li>The Perseid meteor shower typically produces from 50 to 100 meteors per hour.</li><li>The shower occurs every year when the Earth passes through the cloud of debris left by the comet Swift-Tu… [+2539 chars]
Comment on this story The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai eruption lasted less than a day, but it unleashed the most water vapor into the atmosphere by a volcano on record.Researchers say the blast may tem… [+4836 chars]
A distant neutron-star merger unleashed one of the most powerful short gamma-ray bursts (GRB) ever seen, according to new observations by ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chi… [+5278 chars]