Illustration showing fluctuations between regions of two different local structures (high density as red and low density liquid as blue) of water that depend on the temperature. Maxima in the thermodynamic response and correlation functions are observed as a...
An artist's rendition depicts a solar storm hitting Mars and stripping ions from the upper atmosphere.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
How long might a rocky, Mars-like planet be habitable if it were orbiting a red dwarf star? It's a...
Fracking.
Credit: © jon_mullen / Fotolia
From North Dakota to Ohio to Pennsylvania, hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, has transformed small towns into energy powerhouses. While some see the new energy boom as benefiting the local economy and decreasing U.S....
Map of sites and postulated migratory pathways associated with modern humans dispersing across Asia during the Late Pleistocene.
Credit: Bae et al. 2017. On the origin of modern humans: Asian perspectives. Science. Image by: Katerina Douka and Michelle O'Reilly
Most people...
Seismograph (stock image).
Credit: © hakandogu / Fotolia
After an earthquake, there is a disturbance in the field of gravity almost instantaneously. This could be recorded before the seismic waves that seismologists usually analyze. In a study published in Science on...
This is an artist's depiction of the collective excitons of an excitonic solid. These excitations can be thought of as propagating domain walls (yellow) in an otherwise ordered solid exciton background (blue).
Credit: Peter Abbamonte, U. of I. Department of...
People's language changes when they lie depending on their cultural background.
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Psychologists have discovered that people's language changes when they lie depending on their cultural background.
Professor Paul Taylor of Lancaster University in the...
These are nanofocusing and optical mode properties of the organic hybrid gap plasmon waveguide on the silicon platform used for degenerate four-wave mixing. The insets depict the scaled electromagnetic mode distributions for a wide metal gap of 500 nm...
Image of Phobos, the larger of Mars' two moons.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Powerful solar eruptions could electrically charge areas of the Martian moon Phobos to hundreds of volts, presenting a complex electrical environment that could possibly affect sensitive electronics carried...
Abell S1063, a galaxy cluster, was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope as part of the Frontier Fields programme. The huge mass of the cluster acts as a cosmic magnifying glass and enlarges even more distant galaxies, so...
The HAWC Observatory sits at an elevation of 13,500 feet, flanking the Sierra Negra volcano inside Pico de Orizaba National Park in the Mexican state of Puebla. Its more than 300 water tanks can detect cascades of particles initiated...
