Like gravitational waves (GWs) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), fast radio bursts (FRBs) are one of the most powerful and mysterious astronomical phenomena today.

Spectrometry is a well-known technique or, more correctly, a set of techniques. We usually think of it as the analysis of light to determine what chemicals are producing it. For example, you can te…

Organic waste turns into antioxidant flavonoids for nutrition and medicine

Just over a thousand years ago, the stellar explosion known as supernova SN 1006 was observed. It was brighter than Venus, and visible during the day for weeks.

Our fragile planet Earth hangs in the balance as our interconnected global society faces geopolitical and climate crises.

Fossilized bones help tell the story of what human beings and our predecessors were doing hundreds of thousands of years ago. But how can you learn about

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Through a complex chemical process, scientists have been able to develop versatile, synthetic 'cyborg' cells in the lab.

It has been hypothesised, that the tipping of one element of the Earth’s system can catalyse the tipping of others in a cascade. A study gives an example of an alternative option, in which the collapse of one component might in fact make another system tippi…

A decoupled temperature and pressure hydrothermal reaction system can now break the temperature limit of the hydrothermal carbonization of lignocellulosic biomass, realizing a low-temperature carbonization at 200 °C.

Researchers from Osaka University have shown that a system known as the GET pathway is essential for efficient mitophagy, the process by which mitochondria are removed from cells. The GET pathway targets a protein assembly called the Ppg1–Far complex, which i…

Open access journal devoted to the broad field of robotics. Robotics Reports will provide every author and reader the opportunity to rapidly publish and access the latest technological advances in robotics research including artificial intelligence, androids,…

A new study out of Duke finds that raised temperatures cause a pathogenic fungus known as Cryptococcus deneoformans to turn its adaptive responses into overdrive. Heat increases its number of genetic changes, some of which might presumably lead to higher heat…

Caddisflies are an order of aquatic insects with high diversity. In Thailand, more than 1,000 caddisfly species are known to occur, and a recent study in the journal Check List shows that their diversity in the country is even greater than previously suggeste…

It’s a pretty exciting time to be a space nerd right now. Agencies around the world recently came together to...

This somewhat bright space tourist will return 50,000 years from now

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has laid down 10 titanium tubes filled with rock and environmental specimen needed to be picked up in case of an abrupt break down. The samples will play a pivotal role in determining whether life ever existed in our neighb…

A machine learning method that could be used to efficiently identify unusual radio signals from space for further investigation, while filtering out interference, is reported in a paper published in N

WASHINGTON — A green-hued comet that has been lurking in the night sky for months is expected to be the most visible to stargazers this week as it gradually passes Earth for the first time in about 50,000 years.

Dunes on both planets occasionally get blanketed with ice and snow—except on Earth the white stuff is frozen water and on Mars it’s often frozen carbon dioxide.

By analyzing just three dust particles, researchers learned that the rubble pile asteroid Itokawa is 4.2 billion years old and hard to kill.

Michael Grünwald, Ryan Looper and Rodrigo Noriega, of the University of Utah Department of Chemistry, received a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation funding studies of currently unpredictable aspects of the process of crystallization.

The structure of two-dimensional titanium oxide brakes-up at high temperatures by adding barium; instead of regular hexagons, rings of four, seven and ten atoms are created that order aperiodicall ...

Physicists have found a new way to switch superconductivity on and off in magic-angle graphene. The discovery could lead to ultrafast, energy-efficient superconducting transistors for 'neuromorphic' electronics that operate similarly to the rapid on/off firin…

In Melka Kunture, Ethiopia, researchers found 575 obsidian hand-axes that are 1.2 million years old and believed to have come from a dedicated workshop. The discovery means that hominins (early hum…