(Image credit: University of Rochester Photo Adam Fenster) Researchers working to improve solar power plants have discovered a technology that could increase their productivity by 15 times. The innovation is based on the use of laser-modified “black metal” – a…
Atlantic hurricanes like Hurricane Erin (pictured) are more likely to occur during La Niña. (Image credit: Gallo Images/Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data 20
A close-up of Pluto's surface. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute) In 2015, NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto and revealed a fascinating world of ice and atmospheric haze shaped by multiple geological processes. These…
Scientists at the First Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University have performed a unique operation to transplant pig lungs into humans. (Photo: He et al., Nature Medicine) This pioneering study in China involved transplanting a genetically modified pig lung into a…
NASA's Perseverance rover captured this image of a strange rock on August 5, 20
Hundreds of incredibly bright candidates for ancient galaxies have been found in deep images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. (Photo: Bangren “Tom” Sun) Hundreds of astonishingly active sources have been identified in distant regions of space, potentially indicating more…