Building Foresight for Earth Science, featuring Lindsey Jacobson
NASA’s Earth-observing satellite missions track dozens of features of a changing planet — aerosols, sea levels, land cover,…
Scientists unveil a quantum battery that breaks the rules of conventional charging
Scientists at Australia’s national science agency CSIRO have built a prototype of a quantum battery that charges faster…
The fingerprint of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions reaches the deep North Atlantic
image: Emma Bavoux analysing samples in the laboratory at MARUM; University of Bremen. Photo: MARUM – Center for…
SpaceX plans $100B Louisiana launch site for Starship rockets
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry discuss the company’s planned $100 billion launch complex and…
MIT scientists watched electrons rebuild inside a quantum material; one phase grew like an ice crystal |
Deep inside a crystal cooled to nearly -230°C, MIT physicists have caught something rarely seen in quantum materials:…
A pet cow has been filmed picking up a handheld brush and flipping it — bristled side against her back and flanks, smooth handle for the sensitive skin of her udder and legs — adjusting her grip by body region, in what researchers call the first documented case of flexible tool use in cattle
Veronika, a thirteen-year-old Swiss Brown cow living on a small organic farm in Nötsch im Gailtal, Austria, picks…
8 deadliest deserts on the planet and some of the dangerous wildlife you’ll find lurking there
From temperatures that push the human body to its limits to landscapes where rain can be absent for…
NASA Johnson Pilots Chase Moon’s Shadow for Eclipse Science
During the Aug. 12 total solar eclipse over Europe, scientists aimed to study a long-standing mystery: why the Sun’s outer…
Synergistic degradation of fucoidans in the ocean
Chemicals and reagents Fucoidan from F. vesiculosus (Sigma-Aldrich, F8190, lot no. 0000485452) was used as the primary substrate…
Researchers Overcome Key Hurdle in Protein Engineering
At a glance: A new tool allows researchers to design and produce synthetic proteins faster, more safely, and…
The policy relevance of climate-change scenarios for biodiversity research
Pörtner, H.-O. et al. Overcoming the coupled climate and biodiversity crises and their societal impacts. Science 380, eabl4881…
Astronomers discover hot watery exoplanet destined to be swallowed by its star
Astronomers have discovered a new ocean world outside the solar system that orbits extremely close to its parent…