New York, Jul 3 (IANS): Researchers have found new insights into how water from melting ice could have played a recent role in the formation of ravine-like channels or gullies that cut down the sides of impact craters on Mars. The study, published in the jou…

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For years, Dr. Koch had collaborated with Francis Crick, a biologist who shared a Nobel Prize for uncovering the structure of DNA, on a quest for what they called the “neural correlate of...

A small international team of vulcanologists has observed a rarely seen event—a sulfur flow from a volcano—in northern Chile. In their paper published in the journal Frontiers in Earth Science, the group describes how they happened to observe the flow and wha…

Using the Spektr-RG (SRG) spacecraft and the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), an international team of astronomers has discovered a new eclipsing cataclysmic variable system, which received designation SRGeJ045359.9+622444 (or SRGeJ0453 for short). The findin…

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has finally made contact after 63 days of radio silence, re-stablishing communication with mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California. The wait ended with a sigh of relief as the data rec…

After the launch, Euclid is expected to spend about a month traveling to the distant Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 2 on the opposite side of the sun.

New research from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has made it possible to create flexible screens that can change color, convey information, and even transmit covert messages using infrared light.

Christoph Neumann analyses the Global Biodiversity Framework Target 7 and explains the need for a qualified risk-based approach to pollution

In early July, our natural satellite will appear close to Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, Venus and Mercury.

Astronomers recently announced that they had discovered 62 new moons around the ringed planet Saturn and another has just been added to the list. So, how have they lain hidden for so long?

According to a group of international researchers led by Penn State, an innovative type of ferroelectric polymer that is particularly adept at converting electrical energy into mechanical strain holds promise as a high-performance motion controller or “actuat…

Researchers have recently made new findings when it comes to how we peer into space, as four individual teams of scientists have shared their findings on gravitational waves being detected in space.

Like humans, octopuses transition between two sleep stages – a quiet stage and an active stage that resembles REM sleep in mammals.

The mung bean, commonly known as green gram, has played a pivotal role as a cheap protein source in regions where access to meat is limited. Spanning 4,500 years, the cultivation of this humble legume has sustained civilizations throughout history.Wh

On June 5, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida with a very special cargo: CLINGERS, USC’s first experimental research prototype to be tested on board the International Space Station.CLING is a docking system

The month’s sharpest science shots — selected by Nature’s photo team.

The peculiar galaxy NGC 3256 takes centre stage in the two images featured in this video. This distorted galaxy is the wreckage of a head-on collision betwee...

A new online platform to explore computationally calculated chemical reaction pathways has been released, allowing for in-depth understanding and design of chemical reactions.

From the Catholic priest who pioneered it, to how we can (almost) see it, here are 5 fascinating facts about the Big Bang.

The Royal Observatory of Greenwich has released a shortlist of the top submissions, and the pictures are incredible.

It is the lowest gravity anomaly on Earth.

The U.S. space agency NASA announced that it has successfully regained communication with the intrepid Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, following a period of...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has delivered an unrivalled snapshot of the spiral galaxy UGC 11860.