New platform enables large-scale production of custom proteins
Scientists have been hard at work for more than 20 years to instruct biological systems, such as E.…
Nepal’s flash floods show the devastating power of ‘cascading hazards’
A catastrophic flash flood has struck northern Nepal on the Tibetan border, killing at least 157 people and…
Titan is wider than Mercury, operates a complete methane weather cycle, and contains hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all Earth’s known oil and gas reserves. It is the only known world beyond Earth where you could stand beneath clouds beside a calm lake—provided you remained sealed inside a heated, oxygenated suit.
Titan is one of those places where a list of plain facts starts to sound like a pitch.…
Wildlife Photographer of the Year shortlisted images
Amazing photographs including a polar bear peering down a hole in an ice sheet are among the 100…
Inside Mercury’s Raditladi and Eminescu craters, MESSENGER images revealed glacier-like flows that may consist of salts and other volatile-rich material preserved for more than a billion years—raising the possibility of buried niches analogous to salt deposits inhabited by extremophiles in Earth’s Atacama Desert.
Mercury looks like the last place to search for a glacier. Sunlit ground can reach about 430°C, the…
Working with nature can help NZ adapt to climate change. Where is the plan to do it?
Two major reports released in recent weeks help illustrate the scale of New Zealand’s climate adaptation challenge –…
Tidal tomography reveals a thermal anomaly beneath Mars’s crustal dichotomy
Modelling the time-varying gravity field The gravitational potential for Mars, U(r, λ, ϕ), can be expressed as a sum over…
DBCA say humpback whale beached in Port Kennedy unlikely to survive
Experts are bracing for a grim outcome as a stranded 10-metre humpback whale in shallow water off Port…
AI Spots Hidden Solar Storm Signs 9 Hours Early
When we think of weather forecasts, we instinctively think of weather on Earth like rain or shine. However,…
Photos: Scientists take to the skies and spot more than 2,000 species at marine monument
THE TAKEAWAY The New England Aquarium observed more than 2,000 animals during an aerial survey. At the start…
How to See the Partial Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on August 27
If you missed the spectacular solar eclipse earlier this month, you have a chance to catch another stunning…
3D bulk-resolved g-wave altermagnetic order parameter in CrSb
Crystal growth Single-crystal CrSb specimens were grown by the chemical vapour transport technique. Stoichiometric amounts of Cr (chunks,…