The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of the most powerful telescopes ever built. It is the successor to the famous Hubble telescope, and it is significantly more powerful. Over the last month… [+1954 chars]
A "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of a blue whale is set to zip past Earth on Friday (Aug. 12), according to NASA (opens in new tab). The asteroid , named 2015 FF, has an estimated diam… [+3840 chars]
Market leader in temperature and environmental-controlled microscopy, Linkam, presented its range of cryo workflow solutions and sample characterisation tools at Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M… [+3606 chars]
Humankind has maintained an enduring fascination with the moon. It was not until Galileo's time, however, that scientists really began study it. Over the course of nearly five centuries, researchers … [+4572 chars]
Sea sponges, among the oldest creatures in existence, let out what looks like a deep sea "sneeze" to filter out waste, researchers found in a new study. Using time-lapse video, researchers captured … [+2746 chars]
Within 24 hours of accessing the first stage of Australia's newest supercomputing system, researchers have processed a series of radio telescope observations, including a highly detailed image of a s… [+5168 chars]
Powerful earthquakes that shook Earth some 3.8 billion years ago split open the planet's crust and allowed chemical reactions to unfold deep within the fractured rock. These reactions, fueled by seis… [+6524 chars]
Female white-faced capuchin monkeys living in the tropical dry forests of northwestern Costa Rica may have figured out the secret to a longer lifehaving fellow females as friends. "As humans, we ass… [+5294 chars]
A powerful new approach for the precise, flexible modification of a broad class of chemical compounds called bicyclic aza-areneswhich are commonly used to build drug moleculeshas been developed. The … [+3553 chars]
Photo credit: Linda Tanner, via Flickr (cropped). In a series of posts (here, here, here, and here) I have been responding to YouTuber Gutsick Gibbon, aka Erika, on the question of whether the paper… [+2791 chars]
Since its wheels-down landing in February of last year, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has been busily at work, on the prowl steering itself across the Jezero Crater landscape. A key duty of the ro… [+10047 chars]
Panoramic view of the Serranía del Perijá in Colombia, where a vertebra was found in 1943. The vertebra has allowed for scientists to identify a new species of sauropod, the Perijasaurus lapaz. Image… [+7724 chars]
