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…
Green spaces in cities help control floods, store…
[caption id="attachment_14669" align="alignnone" width="775"] Carly Ziter conducts field work in a restored urban prairie in Turville Point Conservation Park in Madison. PHOTO BY ERIC PEDERSEN[/caption] For many ecologists, fieldwork involves majestic mountains or rushing rivers…
Made for Mercury
[caption id="attachment_14664" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: ESA[/caption] On 6 March 2018, the BepiColombo engineering model was delivered to ESA’s mission control centre in Darmstadt, Germany. BepiColombo – ESA’s first mission to Mercury – is based on…
Dressing atoms in an ultracold soup
Physicists build bizarre molecules called 'Rydberg polarons' [caption id="attachment_14657" align="alignnone" width="644"] Rice University physicists (clockwise from left) Soumya Kanungo, Tom Killian, Roger Ding, Barry Dunning and Joe Whalen used lasers and an ultracold strontium gas…
Culturing cheaper stem cells
A new combination of chemical compounds could lead the way to more cost-effective stem cell cultures. [caption id="attachment_14653" align="alignright" width="269"] A human embryonic stem cell colony cultured in the newly developed medium.[/caption] Human pluripotent stem…