By ESA. ESA’s XMM-Newton observatory has helped to uncover how the Universe’s first stars ended their lives in giant explosions. Astronomers studied the gamma-ray burst GRB130925A – a flash of very energetic radiation streaming from [...]

  University of Penn State. Mysteries about controversial signals coming from a dwarf star considered to be a prime target in the searchfor extraterrestrial life now have been solved in research led by scientists at Penn State University. The [...]

  By University of Bonn. Researchers from the University of Bonn and from China have discovered a fossil fly larva with a spectacular sucking apparatus. Around 165 million years ago, a spectacular parasite was at home in the freshwater [...]

    By Alton Parrish. The forthcoming 5G revolution promises substantial advancements such as 1000x higher wireless area capacity for 8+ billion people and 7 trillion objects, 90% energy savings per service provided, and the creation [...]

  By the European Commission Research and Innovation.   Imagine, instead of hitting ‘Print’ and watching a document slide out of your desktop printer, the end product is an aeroplane part, a hearing aid, a sculpture, or [...]

    By Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics.   New research at Perimeter shows that gravitational fields around black holes might eddy and swirl. Fasten your seatbelts – gravity is about to get bumpy. Of course, if you’re [...]

    By Nasa. Multi-wavelength observations of sunspots with the 1.6-meter telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) in California and aboard NASA’s IRIS spacecraft have produced new and intriguing images of high-speed plasma [...]

  By University School of Veterinary Science. Cats eat more during the winter and owners should give their pet more food during this time, University ofLiverpool research has found. Researchers from the University’s School of Veterinary [...]

  Alton Parrish. Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) today announced a new research initiative designed to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI), and other neurological and psychiatric [...]

  By Vienna University of Technology. In a joint effort with collaboration partners from the Vienna University of Technology and a lab in the USA, the team of Andrew Straw at the IMP developed a special device for the thermogenetic control [...]

  By Alton Parrish.   New study of mysterious bare patches in Namibian grasslands supports theory of self-organisation Leipzig. For several decades scientists have been trying to come up with an explanation for the formation [...]

  By Alton Parrish. Imperial College London physicists have discovered how to create matter from light – a feat thought impossible when the idea was first theorized 80 years ago. In just one day over several cups of coffee in [...]

  By University of Berkeley. Winter rains and summer groundwater pumping in California’s Central Valley make the Sierra Nevada and Coast Ranges sink and rise by a few millimeters each year, creating stress on the state’s earthquake faults [...]

      By Alton Parrish. Researchers from Tufts University, Brown University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are teaming with the U.S. Navy to explore technology that would pave the way for developing robots capable of making [...]

  By Alton Parrish. Air quality in most cities worldwide fails to meet World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines for safe levels. And the problem of air pollution is only increasing. In fact, according to WHO, indoor and outdoor [...]

  By Alton Parrish. It sounds like a phrase from Urban Dictionary, or the title of an animated gif, but a Washington State University researcher says “exploding head syndrome” is an authentic and largely overlooked phenomenon [...]

  By Alton Parrish.   MERS case in traveler from Saudi Arabia hospitalized in Indiana. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) was confirmed today in a traveler to the United States. This virus is relatively new to humans [...]

By Alton Parrish. Move over, Australian tiger beetle. There’s a new runner in town. Relative to its size, a Southern California mite runs faster than any other animal, also thrives in temperatures that would kill most other animals. Although [...]

  By Alton Parrish. The smallest, most abundant marine microbe, Prochlorococcus, is a photosynthetic bacteria species essential to the marine ecosystem. An estimated billion billion billion of the single-cell creatures live in the [...]

  By University of Oxford. A University of Oxford spin-out, OxSyBio, will develop 3D printing techniques to produce tissue-like synthetic materials for wound healing and drug delivery. In the longer term the company aims to print synthetic [...]