The fire burning in north-east Victoria near Walwa was so fierce it generated its own weather this afternoon, including a substantial pyrocumulonimbus cloud with lightning and thunder.
Pyrocumulonimbus clouds (pyroCb), also known as are fire…

The fire burning in north-east Victoria near Walwa was so fierce it generated its own weather this afternoon, including a substantial pyrocumulonimbus cloud with lightning and thunder.
Pyrocumulonimbus clouds (pyroCb), also known as are fire…

The current phase 1 clinical study will assess the safety, tolerability and dosage of IB409, a novel drug developed from a molecule found in Australian funnel-web spider venom by biotechnology company Infensa Bioscience, said a…

In a groundbreaking advancement for terahertz (THz) science and technology, researchers have unveiled a novel approach to free-electron laser (FEL) design that leverages electron microbunch trains to achieve superradiant emission. This…

Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a new type of…
Vera, M. et al. Living at the edge: population differentiation in endangered Arnica Montana from NW Iberian Peninsula. Plant. Syst. Evol. 306, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00606-020-01673-9 (2020).
SYDNEY, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) — A potentially life-saving treatment for heart attacks and strokes, derived from the venom of one of the world’s deadliest spiders, has entered human trials, researchers in Australia said Thursday.
The current phase…

In this series of posts, we sit down with a few keynote speakers of the 247th AAS meeting to learn more about them and their research. You can see a full schedule of their talks here and read our other interviews here!
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China’s first Mars rover, Zhurong, has uncovered evidence indicating that water activity on the Martian surface continued much later than scientists once believed. Researchers studying data from the rover say Mars may have experienced…

The year that iceberg A-23A first broke away from Antarctica’s Filchner Ice Shelf, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the movie Top Gun was setting box office records. Forty years later, the massive tabular berg—one of…