New Technique May Give NASA’s Webb Telescope a Way to Quickly Identify Planets with Oxygen

Researchers may have found a way that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope can quickly identify nearby…

Why holidaying in a disaster zone isn't unreasonable

Holidaying in a disaster zone might seem strange, but “volunteer tourism” can actually help communities recover…

Researchers use remote sensing to estimate nitrogen deposition in North China

Northern China, a hotspot of air pollution, has always been an area of great interest to…

Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, study suggests

Norse Greenlanders may have chased dwindling walrus herds ever farther north in an effort to maintain…

Nanoscale sensors to better see how high pressure affects materials

Researchers have developed new nanoscale technology to image and measure more of the stresses and strains…

Insufficient home care the biggest challenge to overcome after release from hospital

Ontario patients and caregivers reported not enough home care to meet the need, that home care…

Simulating The First Image From WFIRST

Imagine a fleet of 100 Hubble Space Telescopes, deployed in a strategic space-invader-shaped array a million…

NASA’s Hubble Survey’s Gigantic Galaxy

This majestic spiral galaxy might earn the nickname the “Godzilla Galaxy” because it may be the…

Sublimation, not melting: Graphene surprises researchers again

Physicists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and the Institute for High Pressure Physics…

New metabolic pathway discovered in rumen microbiome

Cows can adapt themselves to a fluctuating sodium content in their feed. How they do that…