Article

Student from Mauritius’ Explanation of Molecular Forces Wins Breakthrough Junior Challenge
Physics

Student from Mauritius’ Explanation of Molecular Forces Wins Breakthrough Junior Challenge

Amber Kwok, 18, of Mauritius, won the sixth annual Breakthrough Junior Challenge. The competition asks 13 to 18-year-olds to submit a three-minute movie illustrating a…
NASA Is About To Open 50-Year-Old Sealed Lunar Sample from Apollo 17
Astronomy

NASA Is About To Open 50-Year-Old Sealed Lunar Sample from Apollo 17

Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan took a sample of lunar soil from the Taurus-Littrow Valley on the Moon in December 1972 and returned it to…
Monkeys Massacre 200 Puppies in Revenge After Dogs Allegedly Kill Infant Monkey
Plants and Animals

Monkeys Massacre 200 Puppies in Revenge After Dogs Allegedly Kill Infant Monkey

In the Indian town of Lavool, almost 200 pups were slaughtered in purported “revenge” killings after the dogs allegedly killed a newborn monkey. Two simians…
Material from Asteroid Ryugu Starts To Give Up Secrets of Early Solar System
Astronomy

Material from Asteroid Ryugu Starts To Give Up Secrets of Early Solar System

Material from the Japanese Hayabusa 2 mission to Asteroid (162173) Ryugu returned to Earth just over a year ago. The first two studies reporting on…
Listen To the Peculiar Sounds of Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede
Astronomy

Listen To the Peculiar Sounds of Jupiter’s Moon Ganymede

NASA’s Juno spacecraft made a close flyby of Ganymede, Jupiter’s biggest moon, in June of last year. The scientists were able to get the closest…
Life in the Clouds of Venus Is Theoretically Possible, Future Missions Will Look for Signs
Astronomy

Life in the Clouds of Venus Is Theoretically Possible, Future Missions Will Look for Signs

Since the phosphine discovery last year, there has been increased interest in Venus as a world with the possibility for life, not merely as an…
Giant Ancient Millipede Breaks Record For Largest Ever Arthropod
Plants and Animals

Giant Ancient Millipede Breaks Record For Largest Ever Arthropod

A gigantic ancient millipede has stolen the biggest millipede ever discovered. The fossil, which was discovered on a beach in Northern England, also holds another…
Intact Dinosaur Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Egg
Plants and Animals

Intact Dinosaur Embryo Found Inside Fossilized Egg

A completely articulated dinosaur embryo has discovered inside a fossilized egg that had been accumulating dust in a museum’s storage room for almost a decade.…
To Control Quantum Materials, Physicists Use Space and Time Symmetry
Physics

To Control Quantum Materials, Physicists Use Space and Time Symmetry

Physicists from Exeter and Trondheim have devised a theory that explains how to use space reflection and time-reversal symmetries to govern transport and correlations within…
A Study Connects Economic Mobility to Racial Mortality Disparities
Sociology

A Study Connects Economic Mobility to Racial Mortality Disparities

In the United States, there is little evidence of a link between structural racism and mortality. We looked at the relationship between ongoing structural racism…
Recycling Carbon Dioxide through Conversion to Methane
Chemistry

Recycling Carbon Dioxide through Conversion to Methane

While anthropogenic CO2 emissions continue to rise, recycling carbon dioxide (CO2), particularly through conversion to methane (CH4), is compelling. Photothermal methanation is a useful process…
On the Great Barrier Reef, Fish Help Control the Number of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish
Zoology

On the Great Barrier Reef, Fish Help Control the Number of Crown-of-Thorns Starfish

According to a new study from the Australian Institute of Marine Science, reef fish such as emperors, tropical snappers, and rock cod help keep the…
Load More