A team of University of Arkansas physicists has successfully developed a circuit capable of capturing graphene's thermal motion and converting it into an electr...
New research provides insights into how cirrus clouds form, with implications for agriculture, urban development and climate-change predictions. The study shows...
Global warming is driving an unprecedented rise in sea temperatures including in the Mediterranean, according to a major new report published by the peer-review...
Strangelets, and specifically nuclearites, their heavy species, are very dense, compact and potentially fast objects made of large and roughly equal numbers of ...
Crystals are ubiquitous: most metals, for example, are crystalline. Known for the almost perfect organization of their atoms, crystals nonetheless always contai...
Is there life outside our planet?
Massive stars end their lives with energetic explosions known as supernovae. Stripped-envelope supernovae show weak or no traces of hydrogen in their ejecta, me...
One feature of the COVID-19 virus that makes it so difficult to contain is that it can be easily spread to others by a person who...
When you look up at the night sky, how do you know whether the specks of light that you see are bright and far away, or...
A group led by researchers at Butantan Institute in Brazil and supported by FAPESP has described for the first time the presence of venom glands in...