ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — What began as an undergraduate research project at the University of North Carolina at Asheville resulted in a discovery that earned the team recognition in an accredited peer-reviewed journal. ‘It was very surreal’: UNC Asheville researchers make discovery in drug-resistant staph. (WLOS) The team discovered a weakness in a protein that … Read more
In 2008, two physicists proposed that something strange should happen when graphene bends almost as much as the atoms allow. They argued that the curvature could unbalance the electrons, producing electrical polarization solely from the shape. If they were right, that meant that a wonder material (graphene has amazing strength, conductivity, flexibility and lightness) could … Read more
Rita El Khoury / Android AuthorityAdd Android Authority on Google: TL;DR A new update to Pixel Weather for Wear OS introduces three new complications. Pixel Watch owners can now add air quality, pollen, and precipitation index complications to their watch face. Some third-party Wear OS weather apps already offer some of these complications for Pixel … Read more
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Two Mercury-bound spacecraft left their mothership behind Thursday and headed for the home stretch of their nearly decade-long journey to the solar system’s smallest and closest planet to the Sun. The linked European and Japanese spacecraft separated as planned from their cruise, but controllers had to wait an anxious two … Read more
On November 11, 2025, the Sun unleashed a series of solar flares that hit Earth and triggered a severe geomagnetic storm that peaked for about six hours. The event caused beautiful auroras in the skies, but also wreaked havoc on crucial technology we depend on for our daily lives. In a new study published in … Read more
BepiColombo’s arrival at Mercury begins (official ESA broadcast) – Watch YouTube on The BepiColombo mission is finally preparing to reach its exotic destination. BepiColombo launched in October 2018 and took a long, circular and very circuitous route to Mercury, the innermost planet in our solar system. That journey is almost over and the mission is … Read more
An ambitious mission to reveal the secrets of the least explored planet in the inner solar system is about to reach its cosmic destination after a long journey. The BepiColombo mission, a joint effort between the European Space Agency and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, aims to use two complementary orbiters to reveal information about … Read more
Apparently, Saturn has been hiding his talents. For decades, humanity has been baffled by the gas giant’s enormous hexagon swirling around its north pole, a six-sided atmospheric structure unlike anything known in the Solar System. Now, it seems that strange feature is not an isolated incident, and Saturn may have a propensity for polygons, rather … Read more
By Dean Murray A “mysterious” 10-sided structure, known as a decagon, has been discovered in Saturn’s atmosphere. Using the Hubble Space Telescope, images from amateur astronomers, and observations from a University of Leicester scientist, an international team of scientists has revealed the presence of a wave around the planet’s South Pole that is nearly twinned … Read more
A mysterious giant 10-sided cloud pattern has recently formed around Saturn’s south pole, according to a new study. This new “decagon” joins the strange and colossal hexagon seen for decades at Saturn’s north pole. The Saturn hexagon, a pattern of clouds about 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) wide, was first discovered in 1988 by scientists reviewing … Read more