Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), a research team led by Prof. HAN Jinlin from National Astronomical Observatories of Chinese...
The Paleozoic era culminated 251.9 million years ago in the most severe mass extinction recorded in the geologic record. Known as the 'great dying,' this event...
China is preparing to take the next step in its plan to compete with the United States in space.A Long March 7 rocket carrying the second...
In new research, Texas A&M University scientists have for the first time revealed a single microscopic defect called a "twin" in a soft-block copolymer using an...
A rare form of plutonium has been discovered on Earth for the first time — and an exploding star appears to have helped it get here.
On July 16, 1945, the US conducted the world’s first nuclear bomb test, an event codenamed Trinity. The test took place a couple of hundred miles...
First high-resolution model to simulate an entire gas cloud where stars are born. A team including Northwestern University astrophysicists has developed the most...
Researchers have found a key new piece of the puzzle in the quest to use gene therapy to enable people born deaf to hear.
A rare version of the radioactive element plutonium embedded in Earth's crust below the deep sea is providing new clues as to how heavy metals form...
A heart surgeon doesn't need to grasp quantum mechanics to perform successful operations. Even chemists don't always need to know these fundamental principles to...