In Antarctica, among swathes of ice and rock, there’s a waterfall running red with blood – or so it seems.
You’ll find this grisly looking sight in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, in eastern Antarctica.
The Valleys are among of the most extreme…
A recently discovered comet is plunging toward a fateful encounter with the Sun, which will determine whether it puts on a spectacular showing during the daylight or if it completely disintegrates into nothingness.
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Comb jellies, as their name suggests, are marine animals that look like blobs of jelly, reminiscent of a stingless jellyfish (but comb jellies move via small hairs called cilia). In the evolutionary worldview, they’re in competition to be the…
Backscattered electron images and X-ray elemental mapping images of lunar meteorites NWA 14526 and NWA 14992. Photo: Screenshot from CCTV News.
A research team of the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently…
The Moon doesn’t look the same every night. Sometimes it’s a full circle, other times just a thin crescent. These changes happen because of the lunar cycle, a roughly 29.5-day…
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Astronomers have witnessed the birth of a rapidly spinning, highly magnetized neutron star or “magnetar” for the first time.
The observation of this event, triggered by the death of a massive star, confirms the link between the creation of
Researchers may have identified a promising new approach to diagnosing and treating major depression at its earliest stage, potentially improving the chances of recovery for many patients.
Scientists at the University of Queensland partnered with…
Researchers at Rice University have confirmed broken symmetry within a kagome superconductor, a material exhibiting unusual electronic behavior, using a newly developed technique called magnetoARPES. Building upon angle-resolved photoemission…