Total lunar eclipse: observing the Earth as a transiting planet

Astronomers have succeeded in recording sunlight shining through the Earth’s atmosphere in a manner similar to…

New eclipsing binary millisecond pulsar discovered by FAST

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), astronomers have discovered a new eclipsing binary millisecond…

South Orkneys VP8PJ DXpedition Team to Head Home on March 6

The VP8PJ South Orkney Islands DXpedition now under way has put nearly 60,000 contacts into the…

Dogs can detect heat with 'infrared sensor' in their nose, research finds

Dogs have a type of infrared sensor in the tip of their nose which enables them…

Research looks to beneficial insects for pest control

A Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service entomologist is studying how a combination of beneficial insects can…

'Needle in a haystack' discovery in quest to unlock clean energy technology

Researchers from the University of Aberdeen have discovered a new family of chemical compounds that could…

Milky Way galaxy 'reverse engineered'

Like taking apart a piece of technology, the Milky Way galaxy has been reverse engineered to…

How can we stop the spread of false rumors about COVID-19? Better math

Think of all the false rumors that went viral about COVID-19—it got so bad, the World…

A glitch in the Matrix: Using virtual reality to understand how fish predict the future

Scientists from the Friedrich group have developed a new virtual reality system that allows them to…

Novel synthetic proteins rival their natural counterparts in proton transport

Biological membranes, such as the “walls” of most types of living cells, primarily consist of a…