Extremely thin materials consisting of just a few atomic layers promise applications for electronics and quantum technologies ...

Astronomers have published a gigantic infrared map of the Milky Way containing more than 1.5 billion objects -- the most detailed one ever made. Using the European Southern Observatory's VISTA ...

Astronomers have constructed telescopes of every kind - massive observatories designed to pick up faint traces of light ...

Solar flares are extremely intense events that occur in the sun's atmosphere, lasting anywhere from a few minutes to several ...

Earth's average global temperatures have been steadily increasing since the Industrial Revolution. According to the National ...

Earth's average global temperatures have been steadily increasing since the Industrial Revolution. According to the National ...

So, night vision technology enables vision in the dark by either amplifying available light or detecting infrared radiation. Night vision devices capture photons of light ... less than a micron (0.001 ...