A localized dust storm on Mars may have played a key role in driving water into the planet’s upper atmosphere, offering fresh clues to how the Red Planet lost much of its water over billions…
Scientists control molecular alignment on a graphene surface
A fluke discovery could pave the way towards improved graphene-based electronics [caption id="attachment_14778" align="alignright" width="329"] The gray plane on the bottom represents the graphene surface. The stick-like particles consisting of red, white, yellow and gray…
In field tests, device harvests water from desert…
MIT-developed system could provide drinking water even in extremely arid locations [caption id="attachment_14775" align="alignnone" width="639"] Researchers at MIT have developed a new device that is able to extract moisture from very dry air.Courtesy of the…
The absence of ants – Entomologist confirms first…
Dr Stefano Vanin was part of an international team working on discoveries at the Holocene age hunter-gatherer site at Takarkori in south-western Libya. [caption id="attachment_14769" align="alignnone" width="751"] Takarkori rock shelter.[/caption] BY analysing a prehistoric site…
Two NASA Astronauts Among Crew Heading to International…
[caption id="attachment_14766" align="alignnone" width="985"] The Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold, and Oleg Artemyev of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, lifts off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:44…