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Astrophysicist Joe Pesce is making his return to the Space.com forums after last year's popular AMAs. This time around, he'll be on video....

When marine biologist Stuart Sandin talks about sharks, it sounds like he's describing Jedis of the ocean. "They are terrific predators, fast swimmers and they have amazing senses—they can detect any disturbance in the ocean from great dista...

In order to produce tiny electronic memories or sensors in the future, it is essential to be able to arrange individual metal atoms on an insulating layer. Scientists at Bielefeld University's Faculty of Chemistry have now demonstrated that this is po...

Two-dimensional, layered materials hold great promise for a number of applications, such as alternative platforms for the next-generation of logic and memory devices and flexible energy storage devices. There's still much, however, that remains unknow...

A new process highlights an innovative way to get old sky images online... and turned up a potential extra-galactic discovery over a century old. The post Low-Cost Approach to Scanning Historic Glass Plates Yields an Astronomical Surprise appeared first o...

Where did the ingredients for life on Earth come from? A team of astronomers has found a crucial new link: the observation of essential "prebiotic" molecules around a still-forming star....

New York Times bestselling author of the "Eragon" fantasy novels Christopher Paolini embarks on his first adult sci-fi saga with "To Sleep in a Sea Of Stars"....

Consumers regularly choose books, music, travel destinations and other activities based on recommendations by many people on e-commerce or social media platforms....

The 2S2P transitions in muonic helium-4 ions are measured using laser spectroscopy and used to obtain an -particle charge-radius value five times more precise than that from electron scattering....

Regulators will soon grapple with how to safely administer powerful psychedelics for treating depression and post-traumatic stress disorder....

Nature's third progress report, coming at the end of the pandemic's first year, highlights key findings from epidemiology — from sounding the early alarm to following the impact of new variants....

An inhibitor of the enzyme IspH combats multidrug-resistant bacteria....

X-ray diffraction measurements of solid carbon compressed to pressures of about two terapascals (approximately twenty million atmospheres) find that carbon retains a diamond structure even under these extreme conditions....

Early planetary migration in the solar system has been long established, and there are myriad theories that have been put forward to explain where the planets were coming from. Theories such as the Grand Tack Hypothesis an the Nice Model show how importan...

Linking molecular components through amide bonds is one of the most important reactions in research and the chemical industry. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, scientists have now introduced a new type of reaction for making amide bonds. Called an ASHA l...

Tens of thousands of people are flocking to a provincial southern temple, seeking hope in tough times....

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft is heading towards the center of the Solar System, with the goal of capturing the closest images ever taken of our Sun. But during its flight, the spacecraft turned back to look towards home. It captured Venus, Earth, and Mars...

In experiments at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, an international research collaboration has measured the radius of the atomic nucleus of helium five times more precisely than ever before. With the aid of the new value, fundamental physical theories can...

Scientists have calculated the mass range for Dark Matter—and it's tighter than the science world thought....

Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKSUST) and the University of Hong Kong (HKU) recently demonstrated that the selectivity determinant of Origin Recognition Complex (ORC) for DNA binding lies in a 19-amino acid insertion...

Overfishing has cut oceanic shark populations by 71% over past 50 years, global survey finds...

In 1995, NASA's Galileo mission dropped a probe into the atmosphere of Jupiter and found it to be far drier than expected. In 2020, NASA's follow-up mission Juno explained the mystery: it involves mushballs. When NASA's Galileo probe reported ...

Scientists say sharks and rays are disappearing from the world's oceans at an "alarming" rate....

Biologists believe they are one step closer to a long-held goal of making a cheap, widely available plant a source for energy and fuel, meaning one of the next big weapons in the battle against climate change may be able to trace its roots to the side of ...

The inner ear of a 400 million-year-old 'platypus fish' has yielded new insights into early vertebrate evolution, suggesting this ancient creature may be more closely related to modern-day sharks and bony fish than previously thought....

An upsurge of matter from deep beneath the Earth's crust could be pushing the continents of North and South America further apart from Europe and Africa, new research has found....

Scientists have resolved a key climate change mystery, showing that the annual global temperature today is the warmest of the past 10,000 years—contrary to recent research, according to a Rutgers-led study in the journal Nature....

But there are solutions, experts say, such as regulating international trade in sharks and creating more sustainable fisheries....

Even when pummeled with lasers, diamond retains its structure, which could reveal how carbon behaves in the cores of some exoplanets....

A tree grows strong from years of generating its own food. Now imagine if products could be strengthened with the same living materials that provide nutrients to strengthen trees. This is the work of USC Viterbi School of Engineering Civil and Environment...

"Planet Earth Report" provides descriptive links to headline news by leading science journalists about the extraordinary discoveries, technology, people, and events changing our knowledge of Planet Earth and the future of the human species. China&...

New coronavirus variants spread more easily than earlier versions of the virus. That means you may need to upgrade your face mask, experts say....

"Resident Alien," a new, extraterrestrial murder-mystery series on Syfy, uses humor and gritty intrigue to re-invent a classic sci-fi premise and deliver an easy-to-love show....

The symbolic timepiece was updated to reflect ongoing threats from the pandemic, climate change, nuclear weapons and disruptive technologies....

Recycling plastics is really hard, and usually creates low-quality materials that aren't good for much. Chemists are trying to change that....

Spacewalking astronauts installed a high-speed data link outside the International Space Station's European lab on Wednesday and tackled other improvements....

A massive amount of information downloaded from Parler includes potentially incriminating material. But innocuous posts on mainstream platforms can also create vulnerabilities...

A team of researchers from several institutions in the U.K., one in the U.S. and one in Spain has found that measures to promote social distancing of school children to reduce COVID-19 exposure reduced contacts on average by 50 to 62% in a study of studen...

1st private space crew paying $55M each to fly to station...

NHS England is facing growing criticism from public health leaders over its failure to publish data on the ethnicity of people who have been vaccinated against covid-19...

An agate discovered in Brazil bears a remarkable resemblance to the Sesame Street muppet Cookie Monster....

A newly discovered trace fossil of an ancient burrow has been discovered. The fossil has an important role to play in gauging how salty ancient bodies of water were, putting together a clearer picture of our planet's past....

Physicists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are figuring out new ways to accelerate electrons to record-high energies over record-short distances with a technique that uses laser pulses and exotic...

A chemical probe molecule—a "first gen" molecule that can be used for drug development—that targets a host cell's protein quality control pathways can dramatically reduce infection by Dengue and Zika viruses. The research led by La...

An international team of researchers has used modeling techniques borrowed from chemistry applications to create a new kind of city simulator. In their paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A, the group describes using their mode...

3-D printing is a universal process in the sense that pretty much any part that can be drawn up in a CAD program can be printed, at least within a certain resolution. Machining a part on a mill or lathe, while having the advantage of greater accuracy and ...

Astronomers report the finding of a new candidate redback millisecond pulsar (MSP) binary associated with a gamma-ray source known as 4FGL J0940.37610. The newly found object is a short-period compact binary exhibiting X-ray emission that consists of a lo...

Cells need to cooperate to coexist in people, and when some break the rules, cancer results...

Researchers used single-molecule imaging to compare the genome-editing tools CRISPR-Cas9 and TALEN. Their experiments revealed that TALEN is up to five times more efficient than CRISPR-Cas9 in parts of the genome, called heterochromatin, that are densely ...