A strange quantum effect dramatically boosts energy transfer
Electron and proton motion often work together in both living systems and engineered materials. The most familiar example…
Sperm whales change ‘vowel’ sounds when boats are nearby, scientists discover | Cetaceans
Sperm whales produce a specific pattern of clicking noises when they hear the noise of boats, researchers have…
Rescuing satellites is harder than it looks – a growing space junk problem will make doing so more important
A commercial robotic spacecraft called LINK launched on an emergency mission to save NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory,…
In cities, summer nights reveal the one thing running air conditioners at full blast can never fix, and it has nothing to do with the unit itself
Step outside at midnight in Phoenix or Houston on a July night and something feels wrong. It is…
One Asteroid Collision May Have Rocked Earth, Mars, and the Moon
A Southwest Research Institute-led study has connected a specific asteroid collision in the main belt to an inner-solar-system-wide…
A strange quantum effect dramatically boosts energy transfer
Electron and proton motion often work together in both living systems and engineered materials. The most familiar example…
Great apes were using touch to reassure and keep the peace six million years before humans evolved – new research
During an eight-month-long research trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia, we studied consolation: the…
50 years ago, did NASA’s Viking landers destroy the Martian life they were searching for?
Nearly half a century after NASA’s Viking landers touched Mars, one question shadows their experiments: Did they miss…
The Aral Sea’s disappearance became one of the world’s greatest environmental disasters, but one corner refused to die |
In 1960, the Aral Sea ranked among the largest lakes on the planet, spreading across the border of…
Morgan Stanley Projects the Space Economy Could Reach $1 Trillion in the Coming Decades. 3 Companies Positioned to Benefit.
With high-profile launches and increased investments, the space economy appears to be entering a growth phase. And although…
Feral cats erased 11 native species from this Australian island. Scientists are bringing back two truffle-eating marsupials to rebuild it |
Two threatened marsupials are being reintroduced to the Shark Bay World Heritage area in order to advance species…
Ancient Pollen Reveals Prehistoric Climate-Fueled Fires
Analysis of pollen and spores from the end-Triassic mass extinction event (ETME) suggests that intense prehistoric climate change-fuelled…