Nestled among the vast clouds of star-forming regions like this one lie potential clues about the formation of …
Troy Oakes
Troy Oakes
Troy was born and raised in Australia and has always wanted to know why and how things work, which led him to his love for science. He is a professional photographer and enjoys taking pictures of Australia's beautiful landscapes. He is also a professional storm chaser where he currently lives in Hervey Bay, Australia.
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Ohaguro — or “blackened teeth” — is a practice in which people, mainly women, dye their teeth black. While …
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Scientists studying particle collisions of light at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) — a U.S. Department of Energy Office …
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Technology
Researchers Kick-Start Spin Waves at Nanoscale in Pursuit of Low Energy Computing
by Troy OakesAn international team from Delft, Lancaster, Nijmegen, Kyiv, and Salerno has demonstrated a new technique to generate spin …
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Lakes on Mars might not be lakes after all. Three studies published in the past month have cast …
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The LHCb experiment at CERN has presented a new discovery at the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP). The …
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A combination of a once-debunked 19th-century identification of a water-carrying iron mineral and the fact that these rocks …
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The black holes at the centers of galaxies are the most mysterious objects in the Universe, not only …
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Under normal conditions, pure water is an almost perfect insulator. Water only develops metallic properties under extreme pressure, …
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In archaeometallurgy, the study of ancient metal artifacts, archaeologists have historically taken a top-down approach, meaning that the …