Bang! A new moon crater appeared between Oct. 25, 2012, and April 21, 2013. At 12 meters (40 feet) wide, the crater is not hard to spot in the image, but the starburst pattern of ejected debris is elusive...
Most of the known volcanic hotspots are linked to plumes of hot rock (red) rising from two spots on the boundary between the metal core and rocky mantle 1,800 miles below Earth's surface.
Credit: Image courtesy of University of California...
This is an artist's depiction of a quantum simulation. Lasers manipulate an array of more than 50 atomic qubits to study the dynamics of quantum magnetism.
Credit: E. Edwards/JQI
Two independent teams of scientists, including one from the University of Maryland...
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...
Black mouse ready to fight. Fighting behaviors and the neurons that represent them are not as fixed as previously believed.
Credit: © lllorrri / Fotolia
Adult male mice have a simple repertoire of innate, or instinctive, social behaviors: When encountering a...
The genomes of the owl limpet (pictured), a freshwater leech and an ocean-dwelling worm are among the first sequenced genomes from a vast, understudied swath of the animal kingdom known as lophotrochozoans, which includes as many as one-quarter of...
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...
The photograph shows the Shingle Pass section in east central Nevada, where late Cambrian to Middle Ordovician (460 to 495 million years ago) limestone rocks are exposed. These strata were sampled for carbon and sulfur isotopic analysis in order...
West Antarctica glaciers observed during an October 2014 NASA Operation IceBridge mission. New research shows valleys in the ocean floor enable warm, salty water to reach the undersides of glaciers, fueling their increasingly rapid retreat.
Credit: NASA / Michael Studinger
Glaciologists...
A hidden or 'choked' jet (white) powering a radio-emitting 'cocoon' (pink) is the best explanation for the radio waves, gamma rays and X-rays the astronomers observed.
Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF: D. Berr
Three months of observations with the National Science Foundation's Karl G....
Aberration-corrected HAADF/STEM images of as-synthesized Rh-ZSM-5. Single rhodium cations are circled in white with proposed ball-stick model of the structure.
Credit: Lawrence F. Allard, co-author and researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
The direct oxidation of methane -- found in natural...
