Nature’s Sunflower May Help Increase Solar Efficiency in CSP Plants
Concentrated solar power (CSP) plants, such as PS 10 and PS20 located in Spain, help supply clean electricity to thousands of homes; but researchers at…
Black Hole Fires Cosmic Bullets of Ionized Gases
Using the Very Large Baseline Array, astronomers have managed to capture an image of a black hole firing two gigantic pockets of ionized gas at…
Hubble Observes Rare Blue Stars in Andromeda’s Core
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope made a rare discovery when looking deep into the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. Spotted was a population of rare blue stars in…
Twitter Data Accurately Tracked the Haiti Cholera Outbreak: Social Media with a Twist
The real-time social networking service Twitter has yielded data that would have tracked the deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti, which began in October 2010, faster…
Largest Galaxy Cluster in Distant Universe Found by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory
The largest galaxy cluster in the distant universe has been found and nicknamed “El Gordo,” which is much easier to say than the official name…
Smoking Marijuana Less Damaging to Lungs Than Cigarettes
Given that tobacco smokers on average smoke 30 cigarettes per day, it is no surprise that pot smokers would experience less lung damage than cigarette…
Nanoscale Biological Coating Instantly Stops Bleeding
In a development that could end up saving the lives of soldiers traumatically injured on the battlefield, engineers from MIT have developed a spray coating…
Research for High Pressure Materials for DoD Underway
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) needs stronger, lighter, and more resilient materials that can be used in any number of applications from armor, to…
Milky Way Galaxy Mosaic of Images from WISE
NASA’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has mapped the entire sky twice with infrared light giving us a large mosaic image that showcases a vast…
New Herschel Space Observatory Image Shows Magellanic Cloud Galaxy
A European Space Agency-led mission in combination with the Herschel Space Observatory and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope reveal new images of the Large and Small…
NASA’s Toxic Test Chamber Allows Hellish Venus-Like Conditions on Earth
In an effort to learn how their technology will react to the hellish surface conditions on Venus, NASA engineers will put together a 12-ton toxic…
Octopuses Beat the Frigid Waters of the Antarctic by Rewriting Their RNA
Octopuses have found a novel way of beating the frigid temperatures of the Antarctic waters by using RNA editing to customize crucial nervous system proteins,…
Leaping Lizards Influence Robot Design at UC Berkeley
Leaping lizards have a message for robots: Get a tail! University of California, Berkeley, biologists and engineers – including undergraduate and graduate students – studied…
Autistic Children Have Different Gastrointestinal Bacteria
According to a newly published study, many autistic children harbor Sutterella bacteria in their digestive tract, contrary to non-autistic children. While this research provides a…
Airborne NASA Radar to Study Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii
The Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, returned to Hawaii to study the Kilauea volcano. Mounted under NASA’s…
MATLAB Crunches Hepatitis C Virus Data
The Cornell CAC has recently received an award for excellence in the field of high performance computing. The award was given to them from the…
NASA’s Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) Makes Final Observation
NASA’s RXTE has made many important scientific observations over its 16-year history and on January 4th, 2012 it sent its last observation to the ground…
Molecular Motor Dynein Exhibits Strut Like Movement
It seems that inefficiency isn’t always a bad thing. Recent research shows that dynein, a motor protein, has a “strut” like motion instead of the…
