Between 5 billion and 7 billion years from now, our sun will reach the end of its life. Its hydrogen supply -- the juice that keeps it going -- will fizzle out, and the star that once illuminated eve… [+3561 chars]
A bacterial species closely related to deadly citrus greening disease is rapidly evolving its ability to infect insect hosts, and possibly plants as well. The newly identified species belongs to Lib… [+3709 chars]
Researchers have discovered they can use ultrasound waves and bubbles to control the stickiness of medical adhesive bandages. The breakthrough could lead to new advances in medical adhesives, especi… [+1952 chars]
HRTEM images of N-CQDs (representative N-0.25 sample) show that the as-synthesized N-CQDs are spherical (Fig. 1a,c) with particle size ranging from 1.78 to 6.50 nm. The Gaussian distribution (Fig. 1b… [+15520 chars]
This article first appeared in The Conversation. Within 24 hours of accessing the first stage of Australias newest supercomputing system, researchers have processed a series of radio telescope obser… [+4958 chars]
Space: the final frontier. The region between our home planet and everything else in the universe is a big unknown — full of untold wonders, celestial objects so big they boggle the mind, and some tr… [+7223 chars]
A simple statistical test shows that contrary to current practice, the "gaps" within DNA protein and sequence alignments commonly used in evolutionary biology can provide important information about … [+4196 chars]
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and has the third largest diameter in the solar system, yet it's commonly overlooked and joked about due to its name. James Webb Space Telescope project sci… [+2459 chars]
Sneezing can be traced back more than 600 million years to the humble sponge, according to new research. An involuntary release of air helps it get rid of irritants—just like humans, say scientists. … [+4399 chars]
This article first appeared in The Conversation. Within 24 hours of accessing the first stage of Australias newest supercomputing system, researchers have processed a series of radio telescope obser… [+4958 chars]
In the early 1950s, a group of researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study embarked on a high-tech project. At the behest of John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine, the physicist Hedvig Selberg pr… [+8490 chars]
The discovery, published in the journal Science Advances, adds to the already strong constraints on the currently favoured "Giant Impact" theory that hypothesises the Moon was formed by a massive col… [+3657 chars]
