Two new double-lined spectroscopic binary white dwarfs identified by astronomers

A team of U.S.-Canadian astronomers has conducted radial velocity observations of four binary white dwarf candidates.…

Florida Students to Speak with NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station

Florida students will have an opportunity this week to talk with a NASA astronaut aboard the…

JPMorgan raises clean energy spending goals, profit targets unchanged

JPMorgan Chase & Co on Tuesday largely maintained its key profit goals for the medium term,…

Suited up for gravity

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New mapping technique shows how RNA interacts with chromatin in the genome

A group led by scientists from the RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences (IMS) in Japan…

Global analysis shows unprecedented scale of Australian summer of fire

Researchers at Western Sydney University’s Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment have analysed historic data on the…

Why drought-busting rain depends on the tropical oceans

Recent helpful rains dampened fire grounds and gave many farmers a reason to cheer. But much…

A year of surprising science from NASA's InSight Mars mission

A new understanding of Mars is beginning to emerge, thanks to the first year of NASA’s…

Substance found in fossil fuels can transform into pure diamond

It sounds like alchemy: take a clump of white dust, squeeze it in a diamond-studded pressure…

Researchers create new state of light

For 20 years, researchers have studied how light rotates around a longitudinal axis parallel to the…