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Can life survive a star’s death? Webb telescope can reveal the...
Image: A planet orbiting a small star produces strong atmospheric signals when it passes in front, or 'transits,' its host star, as pictured above....
Scientist searches for stellar phosphorus to find potentially habitable exoplanets
A Southwest Research Institute scientist has identified stellar phosphorus as a probable marker in narrowing the search for life in the cosmos. She has...
Researchers demonstrate record speed with advanced spectroscopy technique
Researchers have developed an advanced spectrometer that can acquire data with exceptionally high speed. The new spectrometer could be useful for a variety of...
Emissions may add 40 cm to sea levels by 2100, experts...
Sustained greenhouse gas emissions could see global sea levels rise nearly 40 centimetres this century as ice sheets in Antarctica and Greenland continue to...
Researchers develop the world’s smallest ultrasound detector
Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed the world's smallest ultrasound detector. It is based on miniaturized...
Floating graphene on a sheet of calcium atoms
Adding calcium to a composite graphene-substrate structure creates a high transition-temperature (Tc) superconductor.
In a new study, an Australian-led team has for the first time...
Native stinging tree toxins match the pain of spiders and scorpions
The painful toxins wielded by a giant Australian stinging tree are surprisingly similar to the venom found in spiders and cone snails, University of...
Using chitin, a bioinspired material, to manufacture tools and shelters on...
A simple manufacturing technology based on chitin, one of the most ubiquitous organic polymers on Earth, could be used to build tools and shelters...
Discovery of a new mass extinction
It's not often a new mass extinction is identified; after all, such events were so devastating they really stand out in the fossil record....
Scientists identify gene family key to unlocking vertebrate evolution
New University of Colorado Boulder-led research finds that the traits that make vertebrates distinct from invertebrates were made possible by the emergence of a...
World’s largest DNA sequencing of Viking skeletons reveals they weren’t all...
Invaders, pirates, warriors—the history books taught us that Vikings were brutal predators who travelled by sea from Scandinavia to pillage and raid their way...
