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Astronomers have discovered a free-floating planet, not associated with any parent star wandering our galaxy.
This Halloween, you are invited to spend the evening in a haunted house with a difference. At ZME Manor the supernatural meets the scientific. Which will survive? And what will be left of it?
The risk is real, but not very large, researchers say.
NASA has announced that water is more common on the Moon than previously believed, with traces now discovered at its sunlit Lunar South Pole. This is an area that has been traditionally considered free of water.
The silk of this spider is unique. Its properties have now been analyzed in a new study.
The price that had to be paid was a pressure thousands of times higher than at the bottom of the Marianas trench.
A DNA-based self-assembling technique sheds light on processes essential for semiconductors and nanotech.
This could solve the mystery of tidal disruption events or ‘spaghettification.’
Could this be an everlasting battery?
It's celebration time in the world of physics -- and astrophysics takes the laurels again.
Astronomers have discovered a tremendous cosmic web in the early Universe. Trapped within its threads, six galaxies feeding gas to a central supermassive black hole.
It's all in the bubbles, as artizanal mezcal producers have known for centuries.
It's one of the holy grails of energy production, and these researchers believe it's perfectly feasible.
They may offer some protection to the wearer, but not to those around.
Does this mean we can get a tan on a comet?
Small-scale concentrations of dark matter produce lensing effects that are 10 times stronger than expected, a new study found.
A counterintuitive solution could make for better sensors.
Energy from matter was always easy, but the reverse has been difficult to achieve -- until now.
Researchers believe a controversial conquistador visited the Wichita site.
Vibrating liquids at certain frequencies can cause objects to exhibit anti-gravity effects.
Researchers used 'light cones' to draw boundaries and make AIs more human-like in predicting events in the future.
Researchers have programmed keratin sheets to always fold back to their designed shape -- not matter how complex.
The black hole is the first object of its kind with a mass above 100 solar masses but below a million solar masses to be discovered.
Spotting space debris during the day could help save satellites from costly collisions.
But they would be impossible to create with today's technology.
Now we're going places!
Researchers have found a creative way to monitor elephants, by using miniature computers to capture the steps of elephants through vibrations.
It's actually three flames in one, meeting in a fourth, unique structure.
The discovery of a calm galaxy so early in the Universe’s history calls into question our theories of how galaxies form.
If confirmed, this theory suggests that information is a physical state of matter.
A novel polymer coating turns the familiar red bricks into blue semiconductors.
Science -- because you can't prove there's magnetic pastry in space any other way.
Tea drinkers, you were right: it's not the same if you microwave it.
Supermassive black holes sat at the centre of active galaxies could have company. Binary pairs of these titanic cosmic objects could merge to form a more monstrous black hole. Observational methods are finally becoming sensitive enough to spot such an event.
If you could go back in time and look at a compass, it would show something very different.
This could help us better understand the fundamental forces in physics.
It could be useful for generating energy at the atomic scale or studying quantum effects.
They look pretty, too.
Coronavirus or not, you should close the lid before flushing.
Our planet’s core might be pockmarked with hot blobs. We don’t know what they are, we don’t know where they’re from, but according to a new study, they’re there. Ever stopped and wondered just how we know so much about the Earth’s interior? Since we’re kids, we’re told that the Earth has a crust, a […]
A trifecta of recent discoveries has challenged models of galactic evolution, suggesting that galaxies could have formed much sooner in the Universe’s 13.7 billion year history than previously believed.
The halo surrounding the Milky Way may be much hotter than originally thought.
During an asteroid impact, angles matter.
Astronomers have used mysterious Fast Radio Bursts from distant galaxies to solve a lingering cosmological problem-- locating the Universe’s missing baryonic matter , long predicted to exist, but never before detected.
It's still early days and there are many uncertainties, but it could help us learn how COVID-19 could spread in shops.
Not all birds are of a feather, it turns out.
This could be used in fields ranging from medicine to space exploration.
In addition to social distancing and testing, identifying and isolating infected individuals seems to pay dividends.
This process has been noted on other planets, but not Neptune until now.
Inspired by coffee rings, scientists have investigated the chemical properties of microscopic webs of American whiskey.