A new study of Apollo lunar rocks suggests that the moon is older than anyone believed. The moon, researchers now say, likely formed about 50 million years after the solar system did, which is much earlier than the previous estimate of 150 million years after ...
The Planetary Society's experimental LightSail 2 spacecraft — designed to fly on light coming from the Sun — has lived up to its namesake. The nonprofit today announced that the satellite has successfully raised its orbit around Earth thanks to sunlight ...
For those looking up at the sky tonight in North America, you may notice something missing—the moon! That's because July 31 marks a lunar event called the "black moon" which is the second new moon that happens in one calendar month. A new moon is ...
Baby jumping spiders can see nearly as well as their parents, according to a new study by the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Cincinnati. Credit: Daniel Zurek. Baby jumping spiders can hunt prey just like their parents do because they have vision ...
A new space station experiment is testing whether would-be space miners can enlist some very small potential accomplices to do their grunt work. The experiment, called BioRock, hitched a ride to the International Space Station on board the SpaceX Dragon ...
If the sight of a skittering bug makes you squirm, you may want to look away — a new insect-sized robot created by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, can scurry across the floor at nearly the speed of a darting cockroach. And it's nearly as ...
Researchers at Siberian Federal University, together with colleagues from the Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden), discovered new properties of material based on palladium, which can increase the performance of solar cells. Palladium ...
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of fossils of a primordial sea creature with rake-like claws and a head resembling a famous fictional spaceship have been unearthed in Canada, providing a wealth of information about an important predator from a key time in the ...
Though there are over 30 meteor showers annually, none are as anticipated as the Perseids, the biggest and most spectacular of all meteor showers. The "shooting stars" have been streaking across the skies at a rate of about a dozen an hour, since mid-July.
This visual abstract depicts the findings of Kang et al.. Novel and robust nanocarbon springs were synthesized via solid pyrolysis with a controlled morphology, and simultaneously engineered nitrogen dopants and encapsulated magnetic nanoparticles.
The enormous bone - which weighs in at around half a tonne - was unearthed from a dinosaur fossil-rich dig site in the department of Charente south west France. So far over 7,500 vertebrate bones representing 45 different species have been unburied and ...
Date: July 31, 2019; Source: Kyoto University; Summary: By combining multiphoton imaging and biaxial tissue extension a research team found that collagen in the skin is organized in a mesh-like structure, and that elastic fibers -- the connective tissue found ...
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