Kobe University

The largest moon in our solar system may have been knocked off its axis and cracked like an egg four billion years ago by an asteroid bigger than the one that wiped out the dinosaurs on Earth at the end of the Cretaceous age.

Kobe University researchers have created a new "structural color ink," just 100-200 nanometers thick, that shows bright colors from wide viewing angles, without fading, while weighing less than half a gram per square meter (0.002 oz per square foot).

Scientists are making inroads when it comes to picking up the tell-tale signs of Parkinson's disease onset, and a new first-of-a-kind study has demonstrated how these might be revealed through an inexpensive blood test.

Omnidirectional video cameras are becoming increasingly popular, although they're still mostly just used recreationally. A scientific research team, however, has now utilized one of the devices to gain a better understanding of whale behaviour.

Although we've seen several materials that are designed to remove oil from water, many of these become saturated, and have to be discarded. A new reusable membrane gets around this problem, however, by repelling oil instead of just soaking it up.

Scientists in Japan create the world’s first computer that runs on live crabs.