Of the more than 1,000 verified planets found by NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, eight are less than twice Earth-size and in their stars' habitable zone.
Credit: NASA
Planet Earth is situated in what astronomers call the Goldilocks Zone -- a sweet...
Artist's conceptions of the most-distant supermassive black hole ever discovered, which is part of a quasar from just 690 million years after the Big Bang. It is surrounded by neutral hydrogen, indicating that it is from the period called...
One of the cichlid fish from Guatemala, Thorichthys meeki, collected by LSU Curator of Ichthyology Prosanta Chakrabarty for the study that refuted the date in which the Isthmus of Panama was formed.
Credit: Courtesy of Prosanta Chakrabarty, LSU
A long-standing fact...
The metal-organic framework is set up like a sandwich (a). The molecular textile layer is woven in an active layer that is embedded between so-called sacrificial layers (b).
Credit: KIT
Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have made major progress...
Researchers team has developed inks made of graphene-like materials for inkjet printing. New black phosphorous inks are compatible with conventional inkjet printing techniques for optoelectronics and photonics.
Credit: University of Cambridge
An international research team has developed inks made of graphene-like...
Cosmic rays interacting with the Earth's atmosphere producing ions that helps turn small aerosols into cloud condensation nuclei -- seeds on which liquid water droplets form to make clouds. A proton with energy of 100 GeV interact at the...
Black mouse ready to fight. Fighting behaviors and the neurons that represent them are not as fixed as previously believed.
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Adult male mice have a simple repertoire of innate, or instinctive, social behaviors: When encountering a...
University of Calgary Professor Jason Anderson, right, and doctoral student Jason Pardo published a paper in Nature about new insights into the ancient Scottish fossil called Lethiscus stocki.
Credit: Photo by Riley Brandt, University of Calgary
"It's like a snake on...
This is a map of recent Hawaiian volcanism, highlighting the Loa and Kea tracks.
Credit: Tim Jones, ANU
A study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has solved the 168-year-old mystery of how the world's biggest and most active volcanoes...
The white calcite 'veins' of the Loma Blanca fault are evident in this slab of rock on the fault. These veins of calcite reveal a record of fluid-driven earthquakes clustered together on a fault typically characterized by less frequent,...
The flexible tissue scaffold, shown here emerging from a glass pipette with a tip one millimetre wide, unfolds itself after injection into the body. This could enable surgeons to use minimally invasive techniques, which reduce recovery time, scarring and...
