What Would Happen If All The Ice In The Ocean Melted
Global sea levels would rise by 230 feet. New York City, Venice, and other coastal cities would experience…
Could there be life in helium atmospheres on exoplanets?
View larger. | Artist’s concept of an exoplanet with a helium-dominated atmosphere. A new study suggests that there…
Infrared absorption spectroscopy of a single polyatomic molecular ion
Molecule generation Our experiment is performed on a mixed-species two-ion crystal consisting of 40Ca+ and 40CaOH+ confined in…
In 1952, one of England’s rarest moths was last recorded at a Northumberland estate; more than 70 years later, conservationists returned after the landscape was restored and found a hidden population within 10 minutes
Conservationists restoring habitat at a historic estate in Northumberland have rediscovered a hidden population of one of England’s…
Before every spacewalk, astronauts spend hours breathing pure oxygen inside their own bodies for one specific reason — to stop their blood from doing to them exactly what nearly happened to test subjects inside vacuum chambers on Earth
Every astronaut who has ever suited up for a spacewalk has spent the hour before it doing something…
Fossil fuel industry is worsening Western water scarcity, study finds
In the last few years, multiple studies have shown that global warming is intensifying drought and worsening water…
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 Lunar Eclipse Is Thursday Night, and It Will Be Visible All Over North America
It’s been a great summer to look to the skies, and August has been one of the best…
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…
Rainstorms on Titan may be assembling one of life’s earliest structures without liquid water: a 2025 NASA-backed study proposes that splashes from its methane-and-ethane lakes create coated droplets which acquire a second molecular layer as they fall back, forming the same kind of bilayer compartments that preceded Earth’s first cells.
A lake on Titan does not need to behave like a warm terrestrial pond for its surface to…
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:…
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…