Astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), present for the first time a movie that shows the evolution of stellar spots on a star other than our Sun. In o...
The information they’ve gathered shows birds respond to changing conditions in different seasons of the year. For example, the study found warmer winters benefit resident birds, such...
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego this week formally launched Comet, a new petascale supercomputer designed to transform scientific...
Two insect species from Latin America, the dinosaur ant and the red paper wasp, have been used to uncover the molecular mechanisms underpinning queen and worker roles in social insec...
A small freshwater plant that has evolved to live in harsh seawater is giving scientists insight into how living things adapt to changes in their environment. In adapting to new surr...
For the first time researchers directly measured the speed of a wave located 80 meters below the ocean’s surface from a single satellite image. This is the first time internal wave v...
This map shows the global distribution of aragonite saturation at 50 meters depth. The graphic shows areas that are most vulnerable to ocean acidification since they are regions wher...
Hamilton helped confirm the shapes, sizes and unique rotations of two of Pluto’s moons and the finding that no other moons appear to orbit Pluto. LEISA data released by NASA but not ...
It was announced in August that the UK government would go ahead with an 18-month trial of highways that will be able to charge electrically powered cars as they drive along. Current...
On Oct. 15, 2015, the four spacecraft of NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale, or MMS, mission entered the tightest flying formation ever achieved (shown here in an artist concept) – a p...
But this amounts to a disadvantage for trees in periods of intense rainfall, as they are comparatively less effective at utilizing the newly abundant water. The study highlights the ...
New research by UCLA scientists indicates that some dinosaurs, at least, had the capacity to elevate their body temperature using heat sources in the environment, such as the sun. Co...
This exciton then diffuses through neighbouring chromophores until it reaches an acceptor, where excitons are collected and separated to create a voltage. When scientists create arti...
The rapid extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago gave rise to a stunning variety of bird species over the next few million years, according to Florida State University research...
The surface of Pluto is marked by plains, troughs and peaks that appear to have been carved out by geological processes that have been active for a very long period and continue to t...
Hubble’s planetary portrait captures changes in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot [heic1522] 13 October 2015 In this new image of Jupiter a broad range of features has been captured, includ...
The images are taken by a NASA camera one million miles away on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), a partnership between NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administ...
ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission is intended to do just that: demonstrate laser communications across an unprecedented void. Among its innovative technologies, laser communicat...
The discovery of a new 125-million-year-old fossil mammal in Spain has pushed back the earliest record of preserved mammalian hair structures and inner organs by more than 60 million...
Physicists have shown that the three main types of engines (four-stroke, two-stroke, and continuous) are thermodynamically equivalent in a certain quantum regime, but not at the clas...
At more than 10,800 ft above sea level, the 510-MW Zangmu Hydropower Station is fully operational. Published reports in India, China and Tibet consider the facility to be the largest...
Originally published on Solar Love Solar PV became Australia’s number one source of renewable energy in 2014, passing 4 GW of installed capacity, overtaking wind’s 3.8 GW. According...
In 1968 physicist Herbert Fröhlich predicted that a similar process at a much higher temperature could concentrate all of the vibrational energy in a biological protein into its lowe...
Therefore, the possibility of transmission of quantum information is very limited. Lvovsky’s group in the Quantum Optics Laboratory at the Russian Quantum Center conducted a series o...
The team analyzed 20 million snapshots of the interacting proton beams, and identified 150,000 events containing proton-proton collisions. Compared with the collider’s first run, at ...