An international research study led by the University of Vienna (Austria) and the Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IBE) in Barcelona (Spain), recently published in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution, provides a better insight into the evolutionary his…

NASA has accomplished some amazing feats throughout the decades. Since its incorporation, most of the space exploration efforts of the United States have been led by NASA, gradually making the agency the most advanced space agency on Earth. …

Scientists have long known that formation of kimberlites (named for Kimberley, South Africa, where they were first found) coincide with the breakup of super-continents.

Saharan dust has made headlines in recent years for traveling across the globe, turning our skies picturesque hues of orange while coating our cities in thin layers of wind-blown dust. This has implications for our infrastructure (for example, reducing solar …

Researchers from the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the University of Chicago have discovered semiconductor nanocluster precipitation within the periplasmic space of Gram-negative bacteria for eff…

Researchers have discovered the most distant active supermassive black hole to date with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The galaxy, CEERS 1019, existed about 570 million years after the big bang, and its black hole is less massive than any ot

Our planet has a plastic waste problem. Could fungi found in forests be the solution we've been searching for?

Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, imaged under good seeing conditions on 27 July 2023 by Gianluca Masi, Virtual Telescope Project.

The robot just explored a Mars-like world, with help from an International Space Station astronaut.

To the touch, the legless amphibians known as caecilians feel like gummy worms emerging from a soap-slicked Slip ‘N Slide. This is how Marco Mancuso, a former master’s student at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, describes the wild caecilians he handled in French G…

Though stars may appear like distant glistening pearls in the giant clam of the night sky, have you ever wondered what they sound like?

Supermoon and blue moon will appear in August this year and both celestial events will be visible for people in the US.

Introduced in 2004, high-entropy alloys (HEAs) are alloys composed of multiple principal elements in nearly equiatomic proportions. Their unique chemical composition results in a high degree of chemical disorder, i.e., entropy, and produces remarkable propert…

Cooler and saltier than even the water just below it, the ocean skin plays a critical role in ocean-atmosphere gas exchange.

In this exclusive conversation with ETEnergyworld, Francesco La Camera, Director General of the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), offers an insig..

The study introduces a novel mechanism involving the interaction of blowing mineral dust and sea spray, resulting in the formation of Mineral Dust-Sea Spray Aerosol (MDSA).

The Andromeda galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way, and scientists are using that to study dark energy.

Development indicates that the planets forming around it might be able to support life one day

Making a wish on a shooting star is easy if you know when to look up. Each year, thousands of meteors rain down on Earth. The majority of these are small, the size of a grain of sand, and they can create dazzling light shows in our night sky.

Behold, Los Angeles thread millipede! This tiny creature is a newly-discovered species that scurries around L.A. on 486 tiny legs. It’s blind, spews strange chemicals from its skin, and eats …

Elon Musk told users he's making dark mode Twitter's default setting.He first said he planned to scrap light mode because the dark version was better in every

Media are invited to see the new test version of NASA’s Orion spacecraft and the hardware teams will use to recover the capsule and astronauts upon their return from space during the Artemis II mission. The event will take place at 11 a.m. PDT on Wednesday, A…

Keep your eyes peeled for two special full moons bookending the month of August 2023.

A gravity hole is found in the Indian Ocean. What is it and What do scientists think about it? Digging deep into the mystery