Giving a 'tandem' boost to solar-powered water splitting - Tech Xplore Turning away from fossil fuels is necessary if we are to avert an environmental crisis due to global warming. Both industry and academia have been focusing heavily on hydrogen as a feasible clean alternative. Hydrogen is practically inexhaustible and when use… More...

NASA Lucy Mission's Message to the Future - NASA As the first-ever mission to the Trojan asteroids, Lucy will survey this enigmatic population of small bodies that orbit the Sun beyond the main asteroid belt - trapped by Jupiter and the Sun so that they have led and followed Jupiter in its orbit. More...

Sunflower oil properties can be predicted by genetic analysis - ANI News Moscow [Russia], July 12 (ANI): During a new study, Skoltech researchers and their colleagues from the University of Southern California performed a genetic analysis of a Russian sunflower collection. More...

Planetary Scientists Solve the Mystery of Jupiter's X-ray Auroral Flares | Planetary science - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside The magnetic field of Jupiter is extremely strong — about 20,000 times as strong as Earth’s — and therefore its magnetosphere, the area controlled by this More...

Specialized protein appears to regulate key step in cancer metastasis - News-Medical.Net Researchers have identified a specialized protein that appears to help prevent tumor cells from entering the bloodstream and spreading to other parts of the body. More...

Health News | New Technique Reduces Nicotine Levels, Harmful Compounds Simultaneously in Tobacco - LatestLY Get latest articles and stories on Health at LatestLY. North Carolina State University researchers have developed a new technique that can alter plant metabolism. Tested in tobacco plants, the technique showed that it could reduce harmful chemical compounds, … More...

Watch: Glass octopus videotaped by marine scientists in the Pacific Ocean - WION Marine biologists researching seamounts in the Pacific Ocean captured images of a glass octopus with transparent skin, offering researchers a rare view of the elusive sea creature. The octopus Vitreledonella richardi has only a few visible features - its opti… More...

Resilience, not collapse: What the Easter Island myth gets wrong - Phys.org New research from Binghamton University, State University of New York suggests that the demographic collapse at the core of the Easter Island myth didn't really happen. More...

Discovery of 10 faces of plasma leads to new insights in fusion and plasma science - Phys.org Scientists have discovered a novel way to classify magnetized plasmas that could possibly lead to advances in harvesting on Earth the fusion energy that powers the sun and stars. The discovery by theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Pl… More...

Ancient shark teeth lost in Antarctica millions of years ago recorded Earth’s climate history - Deccan Herald By Sora Kim for The Conversation Tens of million years ago, sand tiger sharks hunted in the waters off the Antarctic Peninsula, gliding over a thriving marine ecosystem on the seafloor below. All that remains of them today is their sharp pointed teeth, but th… More...

Two Zachary students attend Space Camp in Alabama | Zachary - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside The weeklong educational program promotes science, technology, engineering and math, while training students and with hands-on activities and missions More...

Scientists create super-bendy ice - Livescience.com The researchers believe their new bendy ice strands could give us some important hints into how water ice behaves in its natural state. More...

Harnessing the dark side - Nanowerk Researchers have developed a new way to control and shape optical singularities. The technique can be used to engineer singularities of many shapes, far beyond simple curved or straight lines. More...

Jupiter's moon Europa may have conditions for life even after radiations bombarding its surface - India Today Europa is of particular scientific interest because of its salty ocean that lies beneath a thick layer of ice. More...

Ask An Astronomer: Prof P Ajith Explains How Studying Gravitational Waves Can Enrich Our Understanding of Universe | The Weather Channel - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com - The Weather Channel It took nearly 100 years for astronomers to prove conclusively that gravitational waves exist after Albert Einstein introduced the concept way back in 1916. - Articles from The Weather Channel | weather.com More...

Killer Asteroids Could Be Diverted By…Throwing Satellites At Them - Wonderful Engineering Advertisement Ever since the studies and research on space have started, there have been ideas about asteroids coming in close contact with the earth. There have been various asteroids that were feared to collide with the planet we reside on and lead to a des… More...

Scientists discover two species of few-electron bubbles in superfluid helium - Down To Earth Magazine The FEBs can serve as a useful model to study how the energy states of electrons and interactions between them in a material influence its properties More...

‘Wobble’ in Moon’s orbit will cause devastating floods in the 2030s – NASA - The Federal A 'wobble' in Moon's orbit will cause devastating floods in areas along coastlines in the 2030s, says a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) study, adding that US coastline will be the worst affected. More...

Israel's SpaceIL to launch Beresheet-2 in 2024, raises $70 mn - Daijiworld.com Jerusalem, Jul 13 (IANS): Israel's non-profit space organisation SpaceIL has raised $70 million for a second trip to the Moon in 2024, a media report said. Two years ago, the organisation's Beresheet spacecraft crashed onto the Moon's surface in a failed lan… More...

Study Paves the Way for Stronger and Safer High-Energy-Density Batteries - AZoM New insights into the discharge of oxygen in lithium-ion batteries have been gained by a research team, thereby laying the basis for safer and stronger high-energy-density batteries. More...

Molecules in collective ecstasy - Phys.org "What we see here is energy transfer that is much faster than in any semiconductor," says Jakob Heier. The physicist works in Empa's Functional Polymers lab, and the discovery he has made with his team could cause a stir in many areas—such as sensor technolog… More...

Study Offers New Insight into the Reflection of the Universe Near Black Holes - AZoQuantum Near black holes, space tends to be so deformed that even light rays might curve around them mostly. This phenomenon might allow people to view several versions of the same thing. More...

AI Helps Search for Potential Moon Sites for Energy and Mineral Resources - AZoRobotics A new technique of moon scanning could help categorize automatically the essential lunar features from telescopic images and can also remarkably enhance the efficiency of choosing sites for exploration. More...

Astronomers detect ultra-high energy gamma-ray source - Phys.org Astronomers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and elsewhere report the detection of a new ultra-high energy (UHE) gamma-ray source in the Galactic plane. The newly identified source, designated LHAASO J0341+5258, is extended and emission from it reac… More...

A mysterious array of bright lights just appeared on the space station live-stream and people are worried - indy100 A cluster of bright lights has been spotted via a space station live stream—and people are concerned. More...

DMT: the strongest psychedelic you’ve never heard of - Big Think Some scientists believe that DMT could revolutionize the treatment of depression. More...

Solar storm to hit Earth today, your mobile phone signals, GPS can be affected - HT Tech A solar storm is approaching the Earth at a phenomenal speed and it may knowck out mobile phone signals, GSP and even electricity. More...

Video: Artificial cells - Phys.org What is life? The most basic and smallest form of life we know is a single cell. Trying to create living cells from scratch is therefore the ultimate goal for Alexander Mason. However, as a cell consists of lots of parts and has many different functions this … More...

Four newly discovered planets could help give new insights in what Earth was like in its early days - Daily Mail Four exoplanets that orbit stars TOI 2076 and TOI 1807 were discovered and all are in their 'teenage' years, which could help shed new light on the early days of Earth, researchers said. More...

40-Year Mystery Solved: Source of Jupiter's X-Ray Flares Uncovered - NASA A puzzler about the gas giant’s intense northern and southern lights has been deciphered. More...

Gene-editing stops virus transmission within human body - Hindustan Times CRISPR, which allows scientists to alter DNA sequences and modify gene function, has already shown promise in eliminating the genetic coding that drives the development of cancer among children. | World News More...

NASA, ESA form partnership to monitor climate change - United News of India Washington, July 13 (UNI/SPUTNIK) NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) agreed to combine Earth observation data from multiple satellites into a single open-source format available to scientists, policy makers and the public in an attempt to help mitigate… More...

Microcrystal electron diffraction supports a new drug development pipeline - EurekAlert Solving structures of potential therapeutics using X-ray diffraction (XRD) is usually a pivotal step in drug development. But XRD generally requires large, well-ordered crystals. Advancements in automated data collection and processing have increased interest… More...