NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first clear evidence of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, a planet outside our solar system.

Auroras have been swirling through the skies already this week as the sun awakens from slumber.

A closed fifth metacarpal neck fracture is a frequently encountered upper limb fracture that occurs when the bone breaks right below the little finger's knuckle. At the moment, there is no agreement on the best way to treat these fractures. This research seek…

The combination of the extreme climate in Antarctica, the species' solitary habits and their lethal reputation makes leopard seals one of the most difficult top predators to study on Earth. Marine biologists have now gathered baseline data on the ecology and …

The question of how long a particle takes to tunnel through a potential barrier has sparked a long-standing debate since the early days of quantum mechanics. To solve this problem, scientists in China have proposed and demonstrated a novel attosecond-scale st…

University of Saskatchewan (USask) chemists have successfully produced for the first time a new, stable organic compound which has eluded other scientists for more than 27 years.

NASA says the exoplanet, located just 100 light years away, could be a "water world."

As waters grow warmer, the phenomenon of "coral bleaching" continues to spread. Yet not all corals are equally susceptible. An international team led by Cesar Pacherres and Moritz Holtappels from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Ma…

NASA aims to use Boeing Co.’s Starliner space vehicle for a crewed mission to the International Space Station as soon as February, the agency said.

Molecular motors are complex devices composed of many different parts that consume energy to perform various cellular activities. In short, molecular machines transform energy into useful work. Understanding the mechanistical aspects underlying these motors b…

An experiment prepared by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will launch as part of NASA’s scheduled Artemis I mission to orbit the moon Aug. 29.

Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti took to Twitter to share a picture of a "bright dot" on Earth as seen from the space. She wrote, "Intriguing sight! A bright dot in the Negev desert...so unusual to see human-made lights in day passes!" She added, "It's a conc…

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, in cooperation with Sandia National Laboratories, have successfully created photon pairs at several different frequencies using resona…

August 26th 2022Jeremy D. Bailoo Did you know that the study of animals often leads to a host of other applications beyond cures for humans? One field in particular, that of bio-inspired designs, o…

Twenty-first century technologies, including those central to a low-carbon future, rely on rare earth elements and metals. Many of these sought-after minerals reside in porphyry copper deposits that contain hundreds of millions of metric tons of ore. In addit…

Kikina will be part of Space X's Crew-5 mission to the ISS on October 3, joined by Japan's Koichi Wakata and NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada.

"The object could warp into the structure you want," say researchers

A team of researchers from Nanjing University, working with two colleagues from the University of Science and Technology of China, has conducted new tests of the chameleon theory and report a failure to find any evidence of a fifth force. They have published …

Wrinkling of confined shells. Wrinkle patterns result when initially curved shells are confined nearby a plane. a,b, Simulations and experiments of square cutouts from a saddle (a) and

Direct visualization of the structural transformation from pre-pore to pore of the mammalian immune defense complex perforin-2 (PFN2) reveals a clockwise hand-over-hand mechanism that propagates at ~15 subunits per second.

Scientists have discovered the fossil for an enormous sea creature that ruled the oceans 66 million years ago.

Save the date: this year’s 11th annual ESA Open Day at ESTEC in the Netherlands is confirmed to take place on Sunday 2 October. One of a string of ‘ESA Days’ across Member States, this is the day when the gates of the Agency’s technical heart will be thrown o…

NASA is set to launch its most powerful rocket ever on Monday for a crucial, long-overdue test mission, sending an unpiloted Orion crew capsule on a

A maximum latewood density based summer temperature reconstruction from eastern Canada shows recent warming is unprecedented over 1246 years, and tropical volcanism synchronizes regional and hemispheric summer temperatures at the multidecadal time scale.