Examples of particulate matter: colored plastic balls, gravel, sesame seeds, and lentils on a playground (clockwise from top left). Image credit: Julia Kertesz, Martin Olsson, Jitender Kumar and Zyance respectively …
Global random spatial age distribution (250 million years) of the 34-lunar scarp in this study. Credit: Credit: Earth and Planetary Science Letters (2024). DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118636 The moon’s unwavering illumination of …
The diagram shows a proton moving toward an observer at nearly the speed of light, with its spin aligned horizontally (large arrow). Two views of the bottom concentric circles show …
ASRC Professor Gabriele Grosso (top right) and researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s NSLS-II (bottom right) laboratory use advanced instrumentation at their respective facilities to reveal how single-photon emitters, which have …
No world is wilder than Jupiter’s moon Io. It has more volcanic activity than any other body in the solar system, and its sphere is only slightly larger than Earth’s …
In 2020, when the future of work seems completely unpredictable, commissioning a new state-of-the-art game development space is a bold move. But the move paid off for Xbox Game Studio …
The Pacific sleeper shark is the largest shark in Alaska and may be the largest predatory fish in the ocean. It is also one of the most vulnerable of all …
When Tammy LeDoux heard about a DNA sequencing study, she chose to participate out of curiosity to learn more about her ancestry. She never expected that the result would be …
Parkinson’s disease is a progressive neurodegenerative movement disorder. It gradually impairs a person’s functioning until they eventually become immobile and often develop dementia. In the United States alone, more than …
A team of researchers studying genetic copy-paste errors in animal DNA say they have broken the evolutionary code that leads to the evolution of a variety of species found across …