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A team of researchers from Trinity College Dublin and the Universität Mainz has developed the world's smallest engine. The nanoscale heat engine. Image credit: John Goold, Trinity College Dublin. The nanoscale engine — a trapped 40Ca+ ion — is ...

If an asteroid comes hurtling toward Earth, Vandenberg Air Force Base might be the planet's first line of defense. NASA is currently developing a way to divert asteroids on a collision course toward the planet, preventing a cataclysmic event that could ...

The CRISPR genome-editing system is best-known for its potential to correct disease-causing mutations and add new genes into living cells. Now, a team from MIT and Harvard University has deployed CRISPR for a completely different purpose: creating ...

The isotope iron-60, produced when a star explodes, is hidden in some of Earth's most isolated places. Marina Koren. 7:00 AM ET. Satellite image of Antarctic ice from 2011NASA. The snow arrived at the laboratory in Munich inside Styrofoam boxes. It came ...

Electron microscope images of the test sample at different magnifications. Credit: (c) 2019 Nakamura et al. For the first time, researchers have managed to view previously inaccessible details of certain chemical processes. They have shown there are ...

Manta rays form social relationships and actively choose their social partners, a new study has revealed. Research published today by scientists from the Marine Megafauna Foundation, Macquarie University and the University of Papua is the first to describe ...

A Japanese company that aims to help humanity settle the moon has adjusted the timeline of its first two missions. Tokyo-based ispace had been planning to launch a demonstration mission to lunar orbit in 2020, followed by a moon landing with rover ...

A robot deployed on one of the darkest asteroids in the solar system may now shed light on the origins of some of the oldest, rarest meteorites, a new study finds. These findings suggest that this asteroid formed during a collision of two very different space ...

Quantum mechanics boasts all sorts of strange features, one being quantum superposition - the peculiar circumstance in which particles seem to be in two or more places or states at once. Now, an international group of physicists led by Stevens Institute of ...

Earlier this month, NASA's Future In-Space Operations working group said that its portable nuclear powered reactor will be ready to fly to Mars by 2022. Speaking at a National Space Council (NSC) meeting on Tuesday, National Aeronautics and Space ...

Yen says she was "living her best life" until a small bite turned her world upside down.

Storm clouds on Jupiter are affecting the planet's white zones and colorful belts, disrupting their flow and even changing their color, found a team of astronomers from University of California, Berkeley. Jupiter, with its Great Red Spot and colorful, layer ...

Stardust found in freshly melted snow from Antarctica by Australian scientists contains a large amount of a rare isotope not found on Earth. Experts say that there is no chance that the iron-60 isotope was made by humans, suggesting instead that it was ...

The launch of US aerospace corporation Boeing-developed unmanned spacecraft Starliner to the International Space Station (ISS) was postponed to October 6 from September 17, and the test launch of manned Starliner was rescheduled to December 30 ...

The flying Shanghai Tower is all set to zoom past the Earth on September 14! The asteroid named '467317 (2000 QW7)' is taller as the world's second-tallest structure, the Shanghai Tower. And it is approaching Earth at over 23,000 kmph. However, scientists ...

CRISPR is a powerful gene-editing tool that's showing real promise in treating diseases like HIV, cancer, diabetes and a host of others. Now, new research from MIT and Harvard is showing how versatile this tool is, putting CRISPR's genetic scissors to work in ...

Signals from another galaxy? It is not yet known with certainty what are these radio bursts that Canadian astronomers detected, but what is known is that they are extremely rare space phenomena. 2007 was the year in which a series of rapid bursts of radio ...

Situated at over 5,000 meters above sea level in the Himalayan Mountains, Roopkund Lake is home to the dissipated skeletal remains of several hundred people of unknown origin. The lake has long puzzled scientists thinking about who these individuals ...

Researchers have developed artificial chameleon skin that changes its colour when exposed to light. The material, developed by researchers from the University of Cambridge, is made up of tiny particles of gold-coated in a polymer shell, and then squeezed ...

Washington, Aug 23 Private aerospace company United Launch Alliance''s (ULA) Delta IV Medium rocket launched from eastern Florida on its final mission, carrying a GPS satellite for the US Air Force as its payload. The veteran rocket lifted off from Cape ...