NASA’s Voyager 1 Spacecraft Operating at Coldest Temperature Ever
In hope that NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft will be able to transmit data through 2025, NASA has decided they need to further reduce its power…
DARPA’s Galileo Program to Image Objects in GEO Faster
Current technology is limited for imaging objects in space since researchers use astronomical long-baseline interferometers and can only view objects from limited angles. DARPA is…
Researchers Predict Stable Structures of Ice in the 1-5 Terapascal Pressure Range
A group of renowned researchers combined their interests in the high-pressure studies of water, condensed matter physics, and the discovery of new chemistries to predict…
Researchers at MIT and Yale Predict Climate Change to be a Major Expense in Tropical Storm Damage
Climate change could cost North America, East Asia, and the Caribbean billions more than it already does. New information from researchers at MIT and Yale…
Mars Rover Opportunity to Spend Several Months at “Greeley Haven”
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is spending its fifth winter on Mars and is now exploring a site known as “Greeley Haven.” Due to a…
Hundreds of Lost Fossils from the Darwin Collection Rediscovered by the British Geological Survey
The fossils, which had been ‘lost’ for 165 years, were rediscovered by chance by the British Geological Survey. Some of these were collected by Charles…
Russian Mars Moon Probe Phobos-Grunt Crashed In Pacific Ocean
The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which was supposed to have traveled to Phobos, a moon of Mars, and back, crashed on Earth. The ambitious project crashed into…
SN Primo Is Farthest Type Ia Supernova Discovered
Supernova Primo originated 9 billion years ago, when its progenitor star exploded. The light was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope by a three-year project…
Mesodinium Chamaeleon Is A Unique Life Form That is Half Plant Half Animal
In nature, you’ll find animals that undergo vast transformations, becoming almost unrecognizable in their new forms. Examples like caterpillars becoming butterflies and tadpoles becoming frogs…
Baleen Whales Disturbed by Underwater Noises From 120 Miles Away
It’s a well-known fact that noises carry a lot further underwater than in the air, but recently marine biologists noticed that underwater noises might disturb…
How Mosquitoes Manage to Fly in the Rain
Mosquitoes are able to fly adeptly during a rainstorm as well as under clear skies, but how do they manage that feat? Since mosquitoes weigh…
Scientists Convene to Take a Picture of the Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way
It might sound like science-fiction, but on Wednesday January 18th, astronomers, physicists, and scientists will convene in Tucson, Arizona, to discuss a feat that would…
Ruminant Orthobunyavirus Takes Northern Europe By Surprise
A new virus has been found that causes fetal malformations and stillbirths in cattle, sheep and goats in northern Europe. Scientists don’t have a clue about…
Modeling Program to Measure the Friction of Graphene
National Institute of Standards and Technology postdoctoral researcher Alex Smolyanitsky developed software to quantify the friction found on graphene. The software is able to show…
NIH Study Reveals 32 Million Americans Have Autoantibodies
A new study conducted by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the University of Florida show that more than 32 million people in…
NASA Moves RS-25D Flight Engines to Stennis for Space Launch System
NASA has started to move their inventory of the RS-25D flight engines to the Stennis Space Center for future use in the new heavy-lift launch…
The Fractal Dimension of the US ZIP Code System: 1.78!
While most people think that ZIP codes were originally created randomly, there is actually an order to the US mail system. Since it turns out…
Earliest Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Strains Were First Detected in Italy
Contrary to what was previously believed, the earliest cases of the Totally Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (TDR-TB) were not the current 12 known cases reported in Mumbai…