Although star formation is one of the most fundamental processes of astrophysics, there is no widely accepted theory of star formation, despite decades...
NASA has released a beautiful photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the Herbig-Haro (HH) object 505.
This Hubble image shows HH 505, a...
NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully landed in Gale Crater on Mars on August 5, 2012, to search for evidence that the Red Planet could once have supported...
Researchers have carried out a comprehensive physical and cup quality assessment of Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) from three regions in the Kafa Biosphere...
Marine biologists have discovered a new species of the seamoth genus Pegasus living in the coastal waters of Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China.
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A new genus and species of caseid synapsid that lived 264 million years ago (Permian period) has been identified from a partial but well-preserved postcranial...
In a study published this week in the journal Nature Communications, scientists tested the hypothesis that fine and coarse marine aerosols have opposite...
The strong force, also referred to as the strong nuclear force, is one of the four basic forces in nature, along with gravity, the electromagnetic force,...
Materials scientists at MIT have unlocked a rich and easily controlled material design space, previously unattainable using any competing technique, by...
Ceres is the largest body in the asteroid belt. Because Ceres is small, there was not enough gravitational energy when it formed to heat the interior....
Insects are traditionally thought to respond to noxious stimuli in an inflexible manner, without the ability to modulate their behavior according to context....
The cup-shaped leaves of Nepenthes gracilis, or the slender pitcher plant, are equipped with a canopy-like hanging lid that turns into a ‘springboard’...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have for the first time detected the millimeter afterglow of a short-duration...
Using two instruments aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have produced detailed images of the Cartwheel Galaxy and its two...
Starting as early as 1500 BCE in the Mariana Islands, people used distinctive rigging of cut and drilled pieces of cowrie shells, as parts of compound...
Astronomers from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and elsewhere have analyzed an image taken by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope of...
Archaeologists have found butchered bones from a mother mammoth and her calf and signs of controlled fire at the Hartley locality, an open-air site on...
Using the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, astronomers have captured a stunning image...
