Physicists Narrow the Spectrum of the Pulses Emitted by X-Ray Lasers
Using a mechanical trick, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg have found a way to narrow the spectrum of the…
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Astronomers Believe Earth-Like Planet May Exist in GJ 832 System
New JunoCam Image of Jupiter
Moon’s Magnetic Field May Have Lasted 2 Billion Years
New Yale Study Shows Paraoxonase 2 Facilitates Pancreatic Cancer Growth
NASA CubeSat Mission Receives Funding to Solve Venusian Mystery
AOF and MUSE Provide Sharp Views of Planetary Nebulae and Galaxies
Scientists Watch the Sun Stop Its Own Solar Eruption
Cassini Spacecraft Views “Cloudy Waves” on Saturn
Astronomers Reveal TRAPPIST-1 Planetary System is Older Than Our Solar System
Scientists now have a good estimate for the age of the TRAPPIST-1 system, revealing that it is up to twice as old as our own…
Hubble Image of the Week – A Distorted Duo
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the week shows galaxy IC 1727, which is currently being twisted and pulled by its near neighbour NGC 672….
NASA’s Curiosity Watches Clouds Move Across the Martian Sky
New images from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover show wispy, early-season clouds resembling Earth’s ice-crystal cirrus clouds moving across the Martian sky. These clouds are the…
Astronomers Reveal Properties of a Massive Galaxy in the Early Universe
A submillimeter study of a different massive dusty galaxy in the early universe uses carbon monoxide gas to characterize the interstellar medium and determine the…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft to Begin Final Five Orbits Around Saturn
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft will enter new territory in its final mission phase, the Grand Finale, as it prepares to embark on a set of ultra-close…
Yale Study Shows PUM1 and PUM2 Help Older Brains Gain New Cells
A newly published study from Yale University identified two genes that are crucial to creation of neurons in the brain region responsible for learning and…
Blocking HDAC2 Enzyme May Reverse Memory Loss Caused by Alzheimer’s Disease
Research from MIT suggests a new approach to developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, revealing a new way to reverse memory loss by blocking an enzyme…
Study Shows Increased Functional DNA in Mitochondria Cures Male Infertility
In a mouse model, new research from the Max Planck Institute shows that a higher number of mitochondrial DNA-molecules can compensate for negative effects of…
Physicists Present a New Theory on the Origin of Dark Matter
Physicists have now come up with a new theory on how dark matter may have been formed, proposing an alternative to the WIMP paradigm. Only…