Space & Planetary Science

Two groups of researchers at the University of Oklahoma have each received nearly $1 million grants from the National Science...

August 8, 2022, Mountain View, CA -- When a small asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere from space, its surface is brutally...

Online safety and ethics are serious issues and can adversely affect less experienced users. Researchers have built upon familiar human...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University and the University of Lisbon have jointly identified and synthesized a small molecule that could...

CHICAGO, Aug. 5, 20222—It was only a matter of time—before Influit Energy would need to hire more scientists, before the 2,100-square-foot lab...

East Hanover, NJ. August 5, 2022. To study the relationship between age and fatigue, Kessler Foundation researchers conducted a novel...

A systematic review of 301 academic articles on “cultural ecosystem services” has enabled researchers to identify how these nonmaterial contributions...

Dwarf galaxies are small, faint galaxies that can usually be found in galaxy clusters or near larger galaxies. Because of...

Monoamine neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine play important roles in our cognitive and emotional functions. Their evolutionary origins date...

Using an inexpensive polymer called melamine — the main component of Formica — chemists have created a cheap, easy and...

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010316 Credit: Fab Lentz (@fossy), Unsplash (CC0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010316 Article Title: The pursuit of happiness: A...

HOUSTON – (Aug. 4, 2022) – Want a surface that won’t get wet? Grab some sandpaper.  Credit: Weiyin Chen/Rice University HOUSTON...

A research partnership at the Advanced Quantum Testbed (AQT) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Chicago-based Super.tech (acquired...

When it comes to designing ultrabright solid-state fluorescent materials, bridged crystal designs might be the key to enabling monomeric emission...

DURHAM, NC – Naval oceanographer Carina Block had a hunch that the jet exhaust fumes she and her fellow female...

Researchers have developed and demonstrated the potential benefit of a simple set of physical gestures that participants in online group...

The Antarctic region is particularly vulnerable to climate change, and studies have shown that the melting of Antarctic ice sheets...

For the first time, scientists have recorded millimeter-wavelength light from a fiery explosion caused by the merger of a neutron...

  Credit: University of Chichester Ground-breaking project may be rolled-out across UK once scientists evaluate impact on people living with...

AMHERST, Mass. — A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the Georgia Institute of Technology has...