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…
Carbon Cycle
As part of the way Earth works as a system, carbon is continuously passed between the ocean, the land and the atmosphere. This involves a range of different processes, some of which can be observed…
22 years of SOHO
[caption id="attachment_14566" align="alignnone" width="700"] Credit: SOHO (ESA & NASA)[/caption] The activity cycle of the Sun – where the number of sunspots increase and decrease – has been monitored regularly for around 250 years, but the…
‘Electronic skin’ takes wearable health monitors to next…
A soft, stick-on patch collects, analyses and wirelessly transmits a variety of health metrics from the body to a smartphone. [caption id="attachment_14563" align="alignnone" width="3612"] The electronic skin could be used in a variety of applications,…
UNIST Researchers Reveal How One Bacterium Inhibits Predators…
A team of scientists, affiliated with South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), has unveiled that the bacterium Chromobacterium piscinae produces cyanide, an inhibitory molecule, to defend themselves in the battle against…