Scientists have used the sound of the sea to discover the route, the feeder pathway, taken by hot fluids that feed the Campi Flegrei supervolcano in southern Italy ...
The caldera-forming eruption of Campi Flegrei (Italy) 40000 years ago is the largest known eruption in Europe during the last 200000 years, but little is known ...
Since issuing a brief statement Saturday after a test of its Crew Dragon vehicle resulted in an "anomaly," SpaceX has not offered additional comment about its ...
SpaceX has launched an investigation into what caused the company's new passenger vehicle, the Crew Dragon, to explode during a test, but it's too early to ...
On April 6, InSight's seismometer picked up a faint, eerie rumble - the sound, scientists say, of what is likely the first quake recorded on the surface of another ...
NASA's Mars InSight probe has made a landmark discovery – recording a quake on the Red Planet for the first time. So what is so seismic about detecting this ...
NASA's InSight lander has a nice view of the Martian sky. NASA/JPL-Caltech. Sometimes it's nice to just take a moment and enjoy the blissful sight of clouds ...
Paleontologists have unearthed the fossil of an ancient crab that lived between 90 and 95 million years ago and is so "utterly bizarre" it literally perplexed the ...
April 23 (Reuters) - NASA's robotic probe InSight has detected and measured what scientists believe to be a “marsquake,” marking the first time a likely ...
NASA may have recorded the first-ever "marsquake," thanks to its InSight lander. According to a statement from the government space agency, the lander ...
The SEIS (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure) instrument on NASA's InSight lander detected the faint seismic signal on April 6, 2019, the lander's 128th ...
How do you observe a process that takes more than one trillion times longer than the age of the universe? The XENON Collaboration research team did it with ...
One of the ways we measure the age of the Earth is using the half-life of uranium. With a half-life of around four billion years, your typical atom of uranium only ...
A detector designed to hunt for dark matter has made a particle physics observation that will hopefully help physicists establish important truths about our ...
How do you observe a process that takes more than one trillion times longer than the age of the universe? The XENON Collaboration research team did it with ...
An exotic and extremely rare nuclear decay that involves the simultaneous capture of two atomic electrons by a xenon-124 nucleus has been observed in a ...
You've never heard Dean Martin like this. Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences transmitted a recording ...
New physics may be needed to rectify the universe's past and present behavior. There is something wrong with our universe. Or, more specifically, it is outpacing ...
New measurements from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope confirm that the Universe is expanding about 9% faster than expected based on its trajectory seen ...
The universe is expanding considerably faster than it should be, Nasa has confirmed. The space agency's Hubble Space Telescope shows that it is growing ...
SpaceX officially confirmed that it will move the location of a Falcon 9 booster's post-launch recovery in order to better preserve the site of Crew Dragon's ...
NASA officials say they have "full confidence" in SpaceX after the module being built to take humans to the International Space Station appeared to blow up ...
After traveling around the world, sampling the ocean from pole to pole, scientists have uncovered nearly 200,000 populations of marine viruses. In the marine ...
New work raises the estimated diversity of viruses in the seas more than twelvefold and lays the groundwork for a better understanding of their impact on global.
Scientists aboard a single sailboat have identified nearly 200,000 marine virus species, increasing the number of known marine viruses from the 15,000 ...
Next week, NASA will participate in a "tabletop exercise" that will play out a realistic - but fictional - scenario of an asteroid on an impact trajectory with Earth.
For biologists everywhere, April 25 is auspicious. It is DNA Day and commemorates the date in 1953 when scientists Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, James ...
Greenland's ice sheet is melting six times faster than it was in the 1980s. And all that meltwater is directly raising sea levels. That's all according to a new study, ...
Since 1972, the Greenland Ice Sheet has lost the equivalent of trillions of tons of *fresh* water from its ice stores, raising global sea levels by a quarter of an inch in ...
Measuring melting ice is a fairly precise business in 2019 — thanks to satellites, weather stations and sophisticated climate models. # p #1_21 # ad skipped ...
A study conducted by researchers from the University of California has found that the Greenland, home to Earth's second-largest ice sheet, is melting six times ...
China's top space official said the country will launch its first crewed lunar mission and build a lunar base in about a decade, a target that pits Beijing against the ...
With China's Chang'e-4 lander and Yutu 2 rover sending us images of the far side of the moon, the world's most populated country now aims to build a base on ...
Earlier this month, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft used an explosive device to create an artificial crater on the Ryugu asteroid, but the probe couldn't stick around to ...
If you wanted to answer the question of what's truly fundamental in this Universe, you'd need to investigate matter and energy on the smallest possible scales.
China quietly released a new set of images provided by its Chang'e 4 lunar exploration mission. The rover, which became the first mission to ever land on the far ...
Let's say you wanted to solve a 20000-year-old mystery, where would you start? Perhaps archaeology and geology come to mind. Or, you could sift through a ...
Examining a 3-meter stack of bat feces has shed light on the landscape of the ancient continent of Sundaland. The research could help explain the biodiversity ...
The far side of the Moon sees its share of sunlight – it's dark only in the sense that it's mysterious because it's never visible from Earth. Here's why.
Given that even a six month stint at the International Space Station (ISS) causes astronauts to lose bone density and, in some cases, results in visual impairment, ...
(Web Desk) – NASA astronaut Drew Feustel spent 197 days on the International Space Station (ISS). That is called a standard mission length, and all that time ...
Since it was first launched on 24 April 1990, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has made more than 1.4 million observations of nearly 45000 celestial objects.
The Hubble Space Telescope has provided mankind with some of the most incredible views of space that we've ever seen. It's shown us breathtaking images of ...
New research published this week identifies the genomic features that might have made domestication possible for corn and soybeans, two of the world's most ...
The discoveries of thousands of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system has made questions about the potential for life to form on these planets ...
Coral reefs line shores around the world, but they're sometimes tough to spot because well, they're underwater. Now, a group of researchers has found that ...
Elizabeth Madin first fell into the rabbit hole of reef halos while stranded on Heron Island in Australia in 2010. She had come there with her husband, child, and ...
What's the story behind mysterious "halos" of bare sand that surround coral reefs? When reefs are healthy an unusual phenomenon occurs: a perimeter of bare ...
A new research effort from the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation and the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric ...
We long assumed that circles of bare sand around coral reefs are caused by fish nibbling away seaweed. But a 10-year investigation has found the truth is far ...
Planets and moons line up and "touch" in the night sky during astronomical events called conjunctions. When the moon eclipsed Saturn in March, South African ...
Harvard history of science professor Peter L. Galison, a collaborator on Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), said that scientists proposed theoretical arguments for ...
April 24th, 2019 by Steve Hanley. Dmitry Yumashev and a team of researchers at Lancaster University have studied the effects of melting ice sheets in the Arctic ...
The release of methane and carbon dioxide from melting permafrost in the Arctic will add $US70 trillion ($98 trillion) to the world's climate change bill, a new ...
Arctic ice and permafrost melt will add at least $24 trillion to the long-term costs of climate change, even if the Paris Agreement's goals are met, according to a ...
By Jake Johnson. An alarming study released Tuesday found that melting Arctic permafrost could add nearly $70 trillion to the global cost of climate change ...
There are seven more chances to go star gazing at Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes this year. Here's the info from the National Parks *Service*: Located far from ...
Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore will hold "Star Parties" throughout the year so visitors can have close up and panoramic views of the night sky.
Carbon and other volatiles in the form of gases, fluids or mineral phases are transported from Earth's surface into the mantle at convergent margins, where the ...
In case you didn't realize it, photons are tiny little bits of light. In fact, they're the smallest bit of light possible. When you turn on a lamp, gigantic numbers of ...
Ancient fire remains provide evidence of Neanderthal group mobility and settlement patterns and indicate specific occupation episodes, according to a new ...
Ammonia is vital to society, but its manufacture is energy intensive, has a large carbon footprint and requires high initial capital outlays. An intriguing reaction ...
Ammonia—a colorless gas essential for things like fertilizer—can be made by a new process which is far cleaner, easier and cheaper than the current leading ...
Ammonia -- a colorless gas essential for things like fertilizer -- can be made by a new process which is far cleaner, easier and cheaper than the current leading ...
THERE could finally be a way to make fertiliser without releasing huge amounts of greenhouse gases. If the new method can work on an industrial scale, it could ...
Maybe 'Oumuamua wasn't the first visitor from another star system after all. When the mysterious, stadium-size object sped past our sun in 2017 before ...
ASHLEY, N.D. — It was 1885 when Terry Ulrich's family homesteaded the farm he operates with his brother, wife and hired man about a mile north of the South ...
By breaking with conventionality, University of Otago physicists have opened up new research and technology opportunities involving the basic building block of ...
A new study has unraveled the four decade long mystery surrounding the occurrence of a mid-sea Polynya -- a body of unfrozen ocean that appeared within a ...
A study led by NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Research Scientist Diana Francis has unraveled the four decade long mystery surrounding the occurrence of a mid-sea ...
A study led by NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) Research Scientist Diana Francis has unraveled the four decade long mystery surrounding the occurrence of a mid-sea ...
A new 3-D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulation tool developed by researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and CEA Saclay is enabling cutting-edge ...
Using a powerful supercomputer, scientists simulated every single one of the billion atoms found in a human gene. It may help them crack genetic disease.
Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have created the largest simulation to date of an entire gene of DNA, a feat that required one billion atoms to ...
Scientists have for the first time created a billion-atom biomolecular simulation. Researchers designed the computer model to simulate a single DNA gene.
A more efficient and cost-effective way to detect lanthanides, the rare earth metals used in smartphones and other technologies, could be possible with a new ...
Researchers at Utah State University's Splash Lab discovered a new mode of water surface skipping termed "water walking". In collaboration with scientists at ...
While many scientists are focused on the decline of honey bees, relatively few study bumble bees. The good news is that a new study provides an estimate on ...
While many scientists are focused on the decline of honey bees, relatively few study bumble bees. The good news is that a new study provides an estimate on ...
In a critical first for Boeing's CST-100 Starliner capsule, the crew transportation vehicle is putting DoD and Air Force rescue teams through their paces as they ...
In what could be a life-or-death race against time, rescue crews started readying for the first launch of astronauts from Cape Canaveral in eight years. The Air ...
As the race to get astronauts to the ISS intensifies, so does the training required to safely get them back home – and the Space Coast is hosting much of that.
Department of Defense teams carried out the first at-sea tests of a Boeing's CST-100 Starliner training astronaut capsule Tuesday, a critical test ahead of the ...
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION — As the U.S. preps to send our astronauts to space again from our soil for the first time in eight years, an elite group ...
While studying the chemical reactions that occur in the flow of gases around a vehicle moving at hypersonic speeds, researchers at the University of Illinois used ...
A subset of the stem cells in hair follicles have the potential to regenerate the coating that insulates neurons in mice, reports Thomas Hornyak of the VA Maryland ...
KILLER WHALES could knock sharks off the top spot for the most feared creatures in the sea as they've learnt how to feast on the huge livers of great whites by ...
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have managed to build a cascading silicon peashooter -- a smaller, more precise atomic beam collimator.
To a non-physicist, an "atomic beam collimator" may sound like a phaser firing mystical particles. That might not be the worst metaphor to introduce a technology ...
Every several years, magnetic field observatories record quick changes to the position or strength of the planet's magnetic field, so-called geomagnetic jerks.
Every so often a mysterious 'jerk' rumbles through our planet's magnetic field lines, roughly every 10 years – and scientists might now know why. It's to do with ...
The Earth's geomagnetic field shields our planet from the ravages of the solar wind and cosmic rays that would otherwise strip away the vital upper atmosphere.
Every so often a mysterious 'jerk' rumbles through our planet's magnetic field lines, roughly every 10 years – and scientists might now know why. It's to do with ...
Ovarian cancer is usually diagnosed only after it has reached an advanced stage, with many tumors spread throughout the abdomen. Most patients undergo ...
We now know what it looks like when a spacecraft lobs a bomb at an asteroid. Earlier in April, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) directed its ...
The human body is held together by an intricate cable system of tendons and muscles, engineered by nature to be tough and highly stretchable. An injury to any ...
It's now been a couple of weeks since Israel's first attempt to land on the Moon was met with disaster at the last possible moment. The SpaceIL Beresheet lander ...
In 2017, a giant hole appeared in the Antarctic ice. It appeared in mid-September and, initially, measured 3,700 square miles. Within six weeks it had grown to ...
Initially spotted in mid-September 2017 in the centre of an ice pack in Antarctica's Lazarev Sea, the Maud-Rise Polynya, an area of open water surrounded by ...
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have released footage of when they launched a small explosive at the distant Ryugu asteroid to create a ...
In "Delta-v" (Dutton, 2019) by Daniel Suarez, out today (April 23), an unpredictable billionaire recruits an adventurous cave diver to join the first-ever effort to ...
New exoplanet discoveries have been piling up fast in recent years, and whenever astronomers confirm the existence of another planet there's always an ...
If you've ever felt a pang of pity for a starving bee struggling on the pavement in front of you, then help may soon be at hand. Or more precisely, in your wallet.
China's Chang'e 4 lander and Yutu 2 rover have captured new images on their successful mission to explore the far side of the moon as the duo looks to extend ...
Beijing has made clear that its ambitions for China's space program are an integral part of its long-term vision for national rejuvenation. In his 2017 address to ...
Most everybody is familiar with the Big Bang — the notion that an impossibly hot, dense universe exploded into the one we know today. But what do we know ...
With work underway to return astronauts to space from U.S. soil, you can now piece together one of NASA's new commercial crew spacecraft using a toy kit from ...
NASA and the Department of Defense conducted a search and rescue training exercise for Boeing's Starliner spacecraft at the Army Wharf in Port Canaveral.
NASA may be forced to use a nuclear missile to deal with a nuisance asteroid in the future, a documentary has warned, but it may not remove the threat ...
Earth is often in the firing line of fragments of asteroids and comets, most of which burn up tens of kilometres above our heads. But occasionally, something ...
James A Green, professor of public international law, University of Reading THE schlocky 1998 Bruce Willis movie Armageddon was the highest grossing film of ...
Researchers led by Francesca Ferlaino from the University of Innsbruck and the Austrian Academy of Sciences report in Physical Review X on the observation of ...
Predicted five decades ago, supersolidity is an exotic phase of matter where superfluidity and crystalline order coexist. By combining theory and experiments, ...
The insecticide clothianidin affects different species of bees in different ways. While it has no demonstrably negative effect on honeybees, it disrupts the growth ...
