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Space Exploration Aug 28, 2025

Strap in: NASA aeroshell material takes extended space trip

Components of a NASA technology that could one day help crew and cargo enter harsh planetary environments, like that of Mars, are taking an extended trip to space courtesy of the United States Space Force.

Plants & Animals Aug 27, 2025

Be it feast or famine, orangutans adapt with flexible diets

Humans could learn a thing or two from orangutans when it comes to maintaining a balanced, protein-filled diet. Great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia, orangutans are marvels of adaptation to the vagaries ...

Analytical Chemistry Aug 27, 2025

Common metal, unusual power: Manganese complex sets new standard in photochemistry

Reactions are typically driven by heat. However, in recent years, light has also established itself as an energy source, as it allows chemical reactions to be controlled with exceptional precision. This process is known as ...

Space Exploration Aug 26, 2025

Turning Martian soil into metal: Scientists test new extraction process

The idea of building settlements on Mars is a popular goal of billionaires, space agencies and interplanetary enthusiasts.

Astrobiology Aug 25, 2025

Ryugu asteroid research reveals mineral history predating any on Earth

In 2020, the Hayabusa2 uncrewed spacecraft successfully returned small fragments from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu, providing the first pristine samples from a carbonaceous asteroid. Grains from those samples were studied ...

Condensed Matter Aug 25, 2025

First absolute superconducting switch developed in a magnetic device

The University of Jyväskylä, Finland, has been involved as part of an international collaboration that has identified a way to completely suppress superconductivity in superconducting and ferromagnetic junctions. The results ...

Nanomaterials Aug 25, 2025

Meet Rainbow: The multi-robot lab racing to discover the next quantum dots

Researchers at North Carolina State University have unveiled Rainbow, a first-of-its-kind multi-robot self-driving laboratory that autonomously discovers high-performance quantum dots—semiconductor nanoparticles critical ...

Bio & Medicine Aug 21, 2025

Nanodroplets could speed up the search for new medicine

Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a platform on which extremely ...

Bio & Medicine Aug 21, 2025

Nanodroplets could speed up the search for new medicine

Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a platform on which extremely ...

Analytical Chemistry Aug 21, 2025

New formula improves accuracy of particle concentration measurements in diverse samples

Researchers can use a metric called the particle number concentration (PNC) to calculate the number of particles in a sample, such as the number of marbles in a jar.

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