Neuroscientists watched the brains of mice as they played virtual reality games to elucidate how memory goes from its initial formation in the hippocampus to longer-term storage in the cortex. Reporting in the journal Cell on March 30, they found that the ant…

Few things in life are as startling as walking through a spider web. One moment you’re just lumbering along without a care in the world and the next you are jumping up and down and feverishly ripping at your body to try and get the web off all while having no…

Remember when you needed to buy liters upon liters to paint your house? Not anymore.

First real-time glimpse into the growth habits of nanoparticles. Found in salt, sugar, snowflakes, and gemstones, crystals are highly ordered, layered structures Although crystals are ubiquitous in nature, how they form has remained a mystery Using optimized …

For the first time ever, researchers have watched the mesmerizing process of nanoparticles self-assembling into solid materials. In the stunning new videos, particles rain down, tumble along stairsteps and slide around before finally snapping into place to fo…

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have produced the first atomic-level structure of an enzyme that selectively cuts carbon-hydrogen bonds—the first and most challenging step in turning simple hydrocarbons into more u…

Better camouflage is needed to hide from new electronic sensors

Two giant holes appeared on the sun's surface. They're called coronal holes and will send solar winds toward Earth, revealing stunning Northern Lights.MORE I...

A team of planetary scientists at Universidad de Alicante, in Spain, has found that the asteroid Didymos may be spinning so fast that it is flinging off rubble from near its equator. In their paper published in the journal Icarus, the group describes their st…

"1 in every 10,000 years": Astronomers reveal brightest gamma-ray explosion in space | DNA IndiaAs per astronomers, a gamma-ray explosion recorded in October...

Asteroid 2023 DZ2 passed safely by Earth.

The Hubble Space Telescope has taken over 1.5 million observations over the years. One of them is the breathtaking image of the star known as Earendel.The st...

Practice makes perfect, and there are no do-overs once teams recover the sample from asteroid Bennu.

Daichi Fujii from the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan captured a meteor impact the moon with multiple telescopes on Feb. 23, 2023. The crater created from the impact is “thought to be a dozen meters in diameter,” according to Fujii. Credit: Daichi Fujii (Hirat…

National University of Singapore (NUS) physicists have demonstrated a new way of controlling Rashba interactions in oxide systems. Tuning and controlling Rashba interactions is a particularly promising technology, as it can potentially be integrated directly …

Assessing how energy-generating synthetic organelles could sustain artificial cells. Researchers have assessed the progress and challenges in creating artificial mitochondria and chloroplasts for energy production in synthetic cells. These artificial organell…

Researchers using the ALMA observatory unveiled a massive proto-cluster in the early universe, shedding light on the formation of galaxy clusters.

Saturn's vast ring system is heating the giant planet's upper atmosphere. The phenomenon has never before been seen in the solar system.

Chemically modifying the ends of the molecules opens the door to glass that could decompose with organic waste.

Astronomers have recently made an astonishing discovery - a black hole so massive that it might be the largest one known to us yet. With a mass of 30 billion suns, this ultramassive black hole resides at the heart of a galaxy located millions of light-years a…

Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) scientists have devised a method for measuring coral biodiversity by extracting environmental DNA (eDNA) from a liter of surface seawater sampled above a reef.

London, March 30 (IANS) A giant "hole", that is 20 times larger than the Earth, has appeared on the surface of the Sun, and could hurl a solar storm to Earth by Friday, the media reported.

We don’t want to alarm you, but there’s a black hole pointing Earth squarely in the face. Scientists have reclassified a galaxy after finding that the supermassive black hole in its centre has changed direction and it is now aiming right at us. The galaxy in …

Shockingly, Earth suffered the wrath of a powerful solar storm that forced oil rigs in Canada to stop operations.

SpaceX launched a Space Falcon 9 rocket topped with 56 Starlink satellites as it continues to build its broadband constellation. #spacex #capecanaveral SUBSC...