Category: 7. Science

Probably the most famous of the annual meteor showers will soon be reaching its maximum: The Leonids. These ultrafast meteors are expected to be at their best for North American on Tuesday morning (Nov. 18).

The Leonid meteor shower are known for…

Ferroelectric materials are used in infrared cameras, medical ultrasounds, computer memory and actuators that turn electric properties into mechanical properties and vice-versa. Most of these essential materials, however, contain lead…

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It was 2012 when Love Dalén, a paleogeneticist at Stockholm University, first laid eyes upon a special specimen on a lab table in eastern Siberia.

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Bright fireballs may be streaking across the night sky in the coming days as the annual Leonid meteor shower reaches its peak at an almost perfect time when the moonlight will be very low.

The Leonid shower, known as one of the best meteor…

The Sentinel-6B mission continues a decades-long effort to monitor global sea level and ocean conditions using precise radar measurements from space. Since the early 1990s, satellites launched by NASA and domestic and international partners have…

In 2018, a 13 year old on a dock in Tanabe Bay, Japan, scooped up tiny drifting animals and raised them at home. Those creatures turned out to be a new species, now called Orchistoma integrale.

The find extends a little known genus into the…

Astronomers have discovered that the solar system may be moving through the cosmos over three times faster than was previously theorized. The discovery could have implications for the standard model of cosmology, our current best model to…