Scientists have revived microbes found in sediments 100 million years ago from the depths of the ocean floor. The experiment sheds new light on where life can be found on Earth, and how resilient it can be. According to a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, the microbes …
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Deep in the hearts of Neptune and Uranus, it could be raining diamonds. Now scientists have produced new experimental tests that show how this could be possible. The hypothesis is that the intense heat and pressure thousands of kilometers below the surface of these ice giants should separate the hydrocarbon …
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Every second, billions upon billions of incredibly low-mass subatomic particles called neutrinos shoot out of the Sun and glide undetected through your body. These neutrinos are produced by the two known types of fusion reactions that occur on our Sun, and so far scientists have only detected one group of …
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A 50-year theoretical process to extract energy from a spinning black hole finally has experimental verification. Using an analogue of the required components, physicists have shown that the Penrose process is indeed a plausible mechanism for extracting some of that rotational energy, if we could ever develop the means. That …
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