Strange beads of light on Ganymede look strikingly like Earth’s auroras

Ganymede’s auroras have always stood apart for one simple reason: this is a moon, not a planet, and yet it carries its own ...

Experimental wine bottle tracks oxygen moving through the cork

Most people perceive a cork in a bottle of wine as a simple plug meant to keep the liquid in and the outside world out. In ...

Oxygen atoms in 15-million-year-old giant eggshells reveal how plants reacted to a hotter Earth – study

Some periods in Earth history are so different from our own that they may as well belong to another planet. Many people are ...

Scientists find molecular-level evidence for two structures in liquid water

A study published in Nature Physics provides new molecular-level evidence from simulations that liquid water is not a single uniform substance, but a constantly shifting mixture of two distinct ...
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'Impossible' low-loss, tunable dielectric achieved in microwave electronics

The result on his computer screen looked impossible. Late one night in 2009, Nate Orloff was alone in a laboratory, analyzing ...
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Scientists peek into the Pink Planet’s atmosphere

So, to determine if the Pink Planet is truly a planet, scientists need to characterize the isotopes in its atmosphere to ...