Credit: McGill University Understanding how gold is formed is critical to knowing where to find it and how to extract it sustainably. McGill researchers have answered a long-standing question in…
The Goldstone Solar System Radar, part of NASA's Deep Space Network, made these observations of the recently discovered 500-foot-wide (150-meter) asteroid 2024 MK, which made its closest approach -- within…
The half-light radius of the Milky Way compared to that of the local disc galaxies. credit: Natural astronomy (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02315-7 A small team of astronomers from Yunnan University, the…
Exposure-corrected image of SPT J2031. Credit: Diwanji et al., 2024 Using NASA's Chandra X-ray spacecraft, astronomers at the University of Alabama in Huntsville have observed a merging galaxy cluster known…
This figure depicts the synthesis of metallic 1D mirror double boundaries by van der Waals epitaxial growth (top) and a large-area 2D semiconductor integrated circuit constructed based on these boundaries…
Images from camera traps in Udzungwa. From left: female leopard, hyena, male leopard. Credit: Rasmus W. Havmøller Who is stronger? A lone leopard or giggling hyenas? And what is the…
Laser light passing through the transparent crystal and exciting the thorium nucleus. Credit: James Terhune, Hudson Group, UCLA For nearly 50 years, physicists have dreamed of the secrets they could…
This image from the simulation shows a supermassive black hole, or quasar, surrounded by a rotating disk of material called an accretion disk. Credit: Caltech/Phil Hopkins group A team of…
The small roundworm C.elegans is the focus of a new study examining 3'UTRs. These short segments of RNA play a critical role in gene regulation. The resulting map, the product…
Credit: Harrison Haynes from Pexels The remarkable aurora at the beginning of May this year demonstrated the power that solar storms can emit as radiation, but sometimes the sun does…