Our prehistoric Earth, bombarded with asteroids and lightening, rife with bubbling geothermal pools, may not seem hospitable today. But somewhere in the chemical chaos of our early planet, life did …read more Source:: Science
Day: December 3, 2018
New quantum materials could take computing devices beyond the semiconductor era
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Scientists in industry and academia are looking for new materials to succeed highly successful semiconductor transistors. Scientists have hit on a very promising post-transistor technology: multiferroics, which use magnetic spin …read more Source:: Science
In death, Lonesome George reveals why giant tortoises live so long
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Genetic analysis of DNA from Lonesome George and samples from other giant tortoises of the Galapagos — which can live more than 100 years in captivity — found they possessed …read more Source:: Science
LIGO and Virgo announce four new gravitational-wave detections
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The LIGO and Virgo collaborations have now confidently detected gravitational waves from a total of 10 stellar-mass binary black hole mergers and one merger of neutron stars, which are the …read more Source:: Science
Combination of space-based and ground-based telescopes reveals more than 100 exoplanets
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Astronomers using a combination of ground and space based telescopes have reported more than 100 extrasolar planets (exoplanets) in only three months. These planets are quite diverse and expected to …read more Source:: Science