A group of researchers recently modeled the transmission of COVID-19 within an isolation room at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London, U.K. Their goal was to explore the optimal room layout to reduce the risk of infection for health care staff.

For the first time, researchers have recorded live and in atomic detail what happens to the material in an asteroid impact. The team of Falko Langenhorst from the University of Jena and Hanns-Peter Liermann from DESY simulated an asteroid impact with the mine…

A mysterious and very distant object, in a universe as it was 'just' two billion years after the Big Bang, hides from even the most advanced instruments. Its features have finally been described by a team from SISSA in a recently published study reported in T…

The regolith environment and associated organic material on Ceres is analogous to environments that existed on Earth 3–4 billion years ago.

A quest to understand how Sphagnum mosses facilitate the storage of vast amounts of carbon in peatlands led scientists to a surprising discovery: The plants have sex-based differences that appear to impact the carbon-storing process.

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Astronomers have discovered a rocky exoplanet about a few dozen light years away from Earth with conditions that could make it habitable.

Scientific Reports - The unique fibrilar to platy nano- and microstructure of twinned rotaliid foraminiferal shell calcite

The rolling circle mechanism found in viroids and some RNA viruses is a likely way that replication could have begun in the RNA World.

Water condensed as ice beyond the water snowline, the location in the Sun's natal gaseous disk where temperatures were below 170 K. As the disk evolved and cooled, the snowline moved inwards.

In the first paper of this series, we proposed a model-independent framework for characterising the architecture of planetary systems at the system level.

NASA astronaut and Expedition 68 Flight Engineer Nicole Mann works in the International Space Station's Harmony module

High-order chromatin structure is a prerequisite for the function of cis-regulatory elements in the genome, which plays an important role in gene regulation. In eukaryotes, the organization of the three-dimensional (3D) genome presents a hierarchical pattern,…

Move over, Mars rover — a new reptilian robot may one day crawl the Red Planet's barren shores in the name of discovery and research.

Astronomers have discovered 12 new moons around Jupiter, putting the total count at a record-breaking 92. That's more than any other planet in our solar system.

With a little help from nature, the James Webb Space Telescope reveals clumps of stars nearly as old as the universe itself.

Following its arrival at Thales Alenia Space’s cleanroom facilities in the south of France last October, Europe’s next radar satellite, Copernicus Sentinel-1C, has been put through its paces in a series of tests and demonstrated that it is in tip-top conditio…

The Roadster was shot into space five years ago and has rounded the sun three times…

Scientists are constantly exploring new ways to design novel functional materials with tunable electronic properties. One promising area of research on this front is the use of π-electronic systems (systems in which the electrons occupy the p-orbitals of the …

In the world around us processes appear to follow a certain time-direction: dandelions eventually turn into blowballs. However, the quantum realm does not play

A series of laser flashes recently lit up the night sky above Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Experts say the lasers were emitted by a NASA spacecraft.

Duncan Wingham to step down from Natural Environment Research Council after 11 years

In a recently published article in the journal Nature Physics, a team of researchers with the participation of the University of Augsburg reports about unexpectedly universal correlations between the thermal expansion and the glass-transition temperatures of …