Planet WASP-12b Is on a Death Spiral – Heading Toward Certain Destruction
A Princeton-led team of astrophysicists has shown that this exoplanet is spiraling in toward its host star, heading toward certain destruction in about 3 million…
A Princeton-led team of astrophysicists has shown that this exoplanet is spiraling in toward its host star, heading toward certain destruction in about 3 million…
Astronomers have cataloged signs of 9 heavy metals in the infrared light from supergiant and giant stars. New observations based on this catalog will help…
Mathematicians have used a statistical technique to interrogate some of the big “what if” questions in the Second World War battle for Britain’s skies. What…
Ferocious bushfires have been sweeping across Australia since September, fueled by record-breaking temperatures, drought, and wind. The country has always experienced fires, but this season…
Double-Checking the Science on the Effects of Ocean Acidification Sometimes it helps to check the facts. You may be surprised by what you find. Over…
LSU astronomy researchers estimate the peak of brightness and explosion of luminous star brighter than any other in the Milky Way Galaxy. Currently, the faint…
Princeton researchers find that division of labor and political polarization may be driven by the same processes in ant societies. Could the division of labor…
New research shows that technologies are available, but the upgrades can be expensive. A study of seven wastewater treatment plants in the Eastern United States…
The NEID instrument will help astronomers determine the density of distant planets, which can reveal whether the planet is rocky, like Earth, or mostly gaseous,…
An ultrathin coating developed by University of Wisconsin–Madison engineers upends a ubiquitous physics phenomenon of materials related to thermal radiation: The hotter an object gets,…
Researchers have used sound vibrations to shake metal alloy grains into tighter formation during 3D printing. A study just published in Nature Communications on January…
Climate Signals Detected in Global Weather Searched for and found: climate researchers can now detect the fingerprint of global warming in daily weather observations at…
Drinking tea at least three times a week is linked with a longer and healthier life, according to a study published today (January 8, 2020)…
Vision is a crucial sense for most animals, and vertebrates have evolved a highly adaptable set of opsin genes that generate light-sensitive pigments to decode…
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and a new observing technique, astronomers have found that dark matter forms much smaller clumps than previously known. This result…
Sometimes scientists make mistakes. Case in point is the chanchita, a South American freshwater fish that has been swimming in Florida’s waters for at least…
Interconnected stellar nurseries form the largest gaseous structure ever observed in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers at Harvard University have discovered a monolithic, wave-shaped gaseous…
Need to control glucose? There’s a drink for that, says University of British Columbia professor. With more people with diabetes and pre-diabetes looking for novel…