To find evidence of water, researchers collected a variety of diamond from mines in Africa, China, Zaire and Sierra Leone and passed X-rays through them. Scientists have found a type of ice they’ve never seen before trapped inside a diamond formed deep inside our planet. The unique form of water ice is known as ice-VII. …

“It seems that these extremophilic insects in the process of evolution have coopted a very conservative transcription factor,” researcher Oleg Gusev said. Scientists have identified the way a mosquito-like insect in Africa comes back to life after drying up. While still in its larval state, the sleeping chironomid, Polypedilum vanderplanki, can become almost entirely desiccated …

In a new video released by Hubble, animators offer viewers a glimpse of ice formation inside a protoplanetary disk. Over thousands of years, the dust grains circling a young star can accumulate layers of ice. As they grow in mass, the icy particles are pulled in by the gravity of newly formed planets. Scientists hypothesize …

Although the production of carbon fiber goods may be steadily increasing, recycling the material still remains challenging. Thanks to research being conducted at Washington State University, however, it may soon be possible to grind up carbon fiber waste and use it in new-and-improved pervious concrete. First of all, what is pervious concrete? It’s highly-porous concrete …

The newly-discovered space rock – dubbed Asteroid 2018 CB – is expected to zoom past our planet at around 10.30pm GMT. It will be travelling at a speed close to five miles per second and will pass at a distance of about 39,000 miles. That’s just one-fifth of the distance from Earth to the Moon …