NASA Remembers Millie Hughes-Fulford – Flew Aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia
NASA is remembering Millie Hughes-Fulford, the first woman to fly as a NASA payload specialist, who died Thursday. Hughes-Fulford was selected as a payload specialist…
NASA is remembering Millie Hughes-Fulford, the first woman to fly as a NASA payload specialist, who died Thursday. Hughes-Fulford was selected as a payload specialist…
Proposed design could reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by 95 percent, a new study finds. At cruising altitude, airplanes emit a steady stream of nitrogen oxides…
A brief history of a 1950s photo featuring Joseph Thompson, one of the original operators of MIT’s groundbreaking Whirlwind computer. The caption on a black-and-white…
NIX – a powerful new ‘luggage-sized’ cryogenic camera, will take the first pictures of young giant exoplanets. This state-of-the-art, infra-red, cryogenic camera system has been…
Removing one charged molecule from a one-dimensional array causes the others to alternately turn ‘on’ or ‘off,’ paving the way for information transfer in tiny…
MIT-led NASA mission finds a multi-planetary system that could be an “ideal laboratory” to study planetary formation and evolution. MIT researchers have discovered four new…
In a study published in Physical Review Letters, the team led by academician GUO Guangcan from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of…
Detailed observations of molecular gas in a tidal dwarf galaxy have important implications for our understanding of how stars are formed. A lot is known…
A team of researchers led by Columbia University has developed a unique platform to program a layered crystal, producing imaging capabilities beyond common limits on…
To solve the mysteries of black holes, a human should just venture into one. However, there is a rather complicated catch: A human can do…
Manipulating materials at a fundamental level, MIT’s Ju Li reveals new properties for energy applications. For much of his career, Ju Li thrived on the theoretical…
Five, four, three, two, one…. FIREWORKS! The countdown to a new year is in many ways a defining moment for our lives on Earth. Our…
The mesmerizing flow of a sidewinder moving obliquely across desert sands has captivated biologists for centuries and has been variously studied over the years, but…
The SARS-CoV-2 virus mutates fast. That’s a concern because these more transmissible variants of SARS-CoV-2 are now present in the U.S., U.K., South Africa, and…
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have conducted a study that has determined the role that a critical protein plays in…
NASA asked university students around the country to help solve the pesky problem of lunar dust as the agency plans for sustainable human exploration of…
Wombat Research That’s Not to Be Sniffed at The findings – published in Royal Society of Chemistry’s aptly named journal Soft Matter – could help…
An intelligent material that learns by physically changing itself, similar to how the human brain works, could be the foundation of a completely new generation…