University of Basel’s Professor Dominik Zumbühl and colleagues have succeeded in magnetically cooling a nanoelectronic device to a temperature of 2.8...
NASA has selected two finalist concepts for a robotic mission planned to launch in the mid-2020s: a comet sample return mission and a drone-like rotorcraft...
In 2014, a team of astrophysicists reported the detection of an unusual emission line in X-ray light from the Perseus cluster, a cluster of galaxies 240...
A new study by University of Maryland’s Professor Patrick Kanold and co-authors is the first to identify a mechanism that could explain an early link...
A research team led by University of Hawaii astronomers has found two remarkably similar gas giants orbiting very close to their parent red-giant stars.
The...
In this stunning image taken by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, Mars is seen with north at the bottom, and the equator at the top.
A stunning view of...
There may be small, rocky planets in the nearby Alpha Centauri triple-star system that have been overlooked, according to a new study published in the...
A wide range of flowers produce not just signals that we can see and smell, but also ones that are invisible such as heat. According to new research from...
Astronomers from the Breakthrough Listen initiative are reporting preliminary results and making initial data available from its observations of 1I/2017...
A detailed analysis of 3.465-billion-year-old microbial microfossils provides evidence to support an increasingly widespread understanding that life in...
Viruses can transfer genes to organisms they are not known to infect, including organisms in different domains (superkingdoms) of life, according to a...
A team of scientists at the Australian National University has created the most comprehensive map of the southern sky ever.
The Orion Nebula in the new...
The lifespans of flies and worms are prolonged by inhibiting the activity of RNA polymerase III, an enzyme common to all animals, finds a new study published...
A total of 28 rock art cave sites have been discovered on the Indonesian island of Kisar, which measures just 81 km2 and lies north of Timor-Leste. A paper...
A cup of hot tea a day can keep glaucoma away, according to a new study published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology.
According to Wu et al, hot tea...
A team of scientists from the United Kingdom has spotted the equivalent of smoke-rings in the Earth’s southern oceans which they think could ‘suck-up’...
A team of geologists has found 60 million-year-old ejecta from a previously unknown meteorite impact on the Isle of Skye, northwest Scotland. This is the...
A team of researchers reports the discovery of an eighth planet orbiting Kepler-90, a Sun-like star approximately 2,545 light-years from Earth in the constellation...
