First Data From Solar Orbiter Released to the Public
ESA has released its first Solar Orbiter data to the scientific community and the wider public. The instruments contributing to this data release come from…
ESA has released its first Solar Orbiter data to the scientific community and the wider public. The instruments contributing to this data release come from…
President Donald Trump’s announcement that he’d tested positive for COVID-19 was especially concerning because of his age. At 74 years old, Trump is solidly within…
New technique provides a means of interconnection between processors, opening the way to a complete quantum computing platform. MIT researchers using superconducting quantum bits connected…
A European satellite built to carry out precise measurements of sea level changes has arrived in California in preparation for launch. The Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich…
Scientists engineer the first passive radiative device that absorbs heat from the inside of an enclosure and emits it on the outside. If you have…
Sharpness of Gemini South’s star-forming image matches expected resolution of Webb Space Telescope. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is still more than a year from…
Map features greenhouse gas emissions across the entire US landscape at high space- and time-resolution with details on economic sector, fuel, and combustion process. With…
Being previously infected with coronaviruses that cause the “common cold” may decrease the severity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infections, according to the…
Researchers have observed black imported fire ants using sand to draw liquid food out of containers when faced with the risk of drowning. This is…
The historic 2020 Atlantic hurricane season is not done yet. Hurricane Delta, the 25th named storm of the season, is expected to make landfall on…
NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission now knows much more about the material it’ll be collecting in just a few weeks. In a special collection…
Pioneering new research has helped geologists solve a long-standing puzzle that could help pinpoint new, untapped concentrations of some of the most valuable rare earth…
In the search for the chemical origins of life, researchers have found a possible alternative path for the emergence of the characteristic DNA pattern: According…
Meltwater lakes that form at glacier margins cause ice to recede much further and faster compared to glaciers that terminate on land, according to a…
The preprints selected for review in Rapid Reviews: COVID-19 (RR:C19), an open-access overlay journal published by the MIT Press, cover a wide range of…
Catherine Neish is counting the days until her space launch. While the Western planetary geologist isn’t space-suiting up for her own interstellar voyage, she is…
With computer models and lab experiments, researchers are working on a strategy for vaccines that could protect against any influenza virus. Each year, the flu…
The agency’s newest rover will use the first ground-penetrating radar instrument on the Martian surface to help search for signs of past microbial life. After…