A team of scientists from Ohio University, Argonne National Laboratory, and others, led by OHIO professor Saw Wai Hla, have taken the world’s first X-ray SIGNAL of just one atom.

Scientists could better understand how solar outbursts accelerate particles to tremendous speeds.

Hercules had nowhere to go.

Using data collected by NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope and NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite…

The spacecraft had run into some trouble deploying a 52-foot-long antenna, but is now fully primed and ready as it continues along its eight-year journey.

SpaceX successfully launched another Starlink mission at 11:02 PM PT (06:02 UTC), this time sending 52 V1.5 Starlink satellites to orbit from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base. These satellites will be placed into a 70-degree orbital inclination around th…

The structure has revealed to astronomers that some black holes are picky eaters.

Take a deep breath. Now take nine more. According to new research, the amount of oxygen in one of those 10 breaths was made possible thanks to a newly identified cellular mechanism that promotes photosynthesis in marine phytoplankton.

Whether it's baking a cake, building a house, or developing a quantum device, the quality of the end product significantly depends on its ingredients or base materials. Researchers working to improve the performance of superconducting qubits, the foundation o…

The Kuiper Belt is a massive disk of icy bodies, including Pluto, that is located just outside of Neptune's orbit in our solar system. Objects observed in the Kuiper Belt exhibit a more diversified color range than any other solar system population, with colo…

Laura Klivans of the KQED series Deep Look explains how geckos effortlessly climb walls using molecular physics rather than suction cups.

The rotorcraft went silent for nearly a full week—an "agonizingly long time," according to mission controllers, and it's a problem that could get worse.

New hazard-monitoring technology uses GPS signals to go wave-hunting in the Pacific Ring of Fire. GUARDIAN’s long-term objective is to augment early warning systems.

Researchers are using sound to study Pando, the world's largest tree.

Electron microscopes give us insight into the tiniest details of materials and can visualize, for example, the structure of solids, molecules or nanoparticles with atomic resolution. However, most materials in nature are not static. They constantly interact, …

The European Space Agency will be streaming images on YouTube at 11:45AM PT as they come back from the Mars Express orbiter in celebration of its 20th launch anniversary.

Some foods and medicines, such as many COVID-19 vaccines, must be kept cold. As a step toward a robust, stable technique that could indicate when these products exceed safe limits, researchers in ACS Nano report a class of brilliantly colored microcrystals in…

Here we explore how gravitational lensing is helping scientists see the invisible.

Geneticists have unearthed a major event in the ancient history of sturgeons and paddlefish that has significant implications for the way we understand evolution. They have pinpointed a previously hidden "whole genome duplication" (WGD) in the common ancestor…

Alex Gorosh and Wylie Overstreet of To Scale: Films took on the enormous task of devising a practical scale model that illustrates time.

Three exoplanets were hidden away in 2018 Kepler Space Telescope data, until now.

Paleontologists who discovered the beast completed a CT scan on the skull and revealed these bristles, described like a "brush cut."

A study identifies 41 consensus gene expression meta-programs that are coordinately upregulated in subpopulations of malignant cells across tumour types, providing a comprehensive picture of hallmarks of intratumour heterogeneity.

Tip-enhanced nanospectroscopy reveals quasiparticle standing waves