A multinational team of researchers has successfully sequenced the genome of the Antarctic blackfin icefish (Chaenocephalus aceratus), opening a genetic...
Physicists at JILA, a joint institute of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder, have produced...
Beginning Tuesday, February 19, 2019, NASA’s InSight lander will provide a daily report of atmospheric weather conditions on Mars. This tool, developed...
The cassowary (Casuarius casuarius) is a large, flightless bird that bears a prominent helmet (or casque). The function of the cranial structure has attracted...
After decades of groundbreaking laboratory work, the world’s scientific and technical community came together on November 16, 2018, to redefine kilogram...
A new uncertainty relation, linking quantum mechanics and the precision with which temperature can be measured, has been discovered by University of Exeter...
New research indicates that nitrogen, one of the most-common elements in the Universe and the dominant gas in the atmosphere of Earth, becomes a metallic...
When Dr. Ted Scambos, a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado Boulder, and co-authors first...
According to a study in mice published in the Journal of Neuroscience, reduced ability to maintain body temperature in colder environments may contribute...
An international team of scientists led by Professor Hanns-Christian Gunga of Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin has observed that astronauts run hot...
University of Basel’s Professor Dominik Zumbühl and colleagues have succeeded in magnetically cooling a nanoelectronic device to a temperature of 2.8...
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...
Humans inherit their nose shape from their parents, but ultimately, the shape of someone’s nose and that of their parents was formed by a long process...
A team of scientists from Japan has found a way to take a close look at the temperature distribution inside living cells.
In a previous study, Dr Okabe’s...
