NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is Set to Lift Off on August 11
At 3:33 a.m. EDT on August 11, while most of the U.S. is asleep, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida will be abuzz with excitement….
At 3:33 a.m. EDT on August 11, while most of the U.S. is asleep, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida will be abuzz with excitement….
FEFU scientists are developing a methodology to calculate the ratio of dust and gas in comas and the tails of comets. This will help us…
Complex systems of microscopic tunnels found inside garnet crystals from Thailand are most likely the result of microorganisms making their homes inside these minerals, according…
The latest development in textiles and fibers is a kind of soft hardware that you can wear: cloth that has electronic devices built right into…
Several gene mutations have been linked to Parkinson’s disease, but exactly how and where some of them cause their damage has been unclear. A new…
Yale researchers have provided a new explanation for why Earth’s early climate was more stable and warmer than it is today. When life first evolved…
On August 8, 1978, the Pioneer Venus Multiprobe spacecraft launched to study Venus, a planet that has an atmosphere 100 times denser than Earth’s atmosphere…
An international research group applied theoretical physics methods to investigate the Great Pyramid’s electromagnetic response to radio waves. Scientists predicted that under resonance conditions the…
The compounds behind the perfumes and colognes you enjoy have been eliciting olfactory excitement since dinosaurs walked the Earth amid the first appearance of flowering…
New microgravity research finds that microparticles in complex plasma behave in nonuniform ways around varying electrical fields. 400 kilometers (250 miles) above Earth, researchers examined…
A glittering host of galaxies populate this rich image taken with ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope, a state-of-the-art 2.6-m telescope designed for surveying the sky in…
The Columbia Glacier descends from an ice field 10,000 feet (3,050 meters) above sea level, down the flanks of the Chugach Mountains, and into a narrow inlet that…
MIT chemical engineers have developed a new sensor that lets them see inside cancer cells and determine whether the cells are responding to a particular…
Forty-four planets in solar systems beyond our own have been unveiled in one go, dwarfing the usual number of confirmations from extrasolar surveys, which is…
Listening to electro-magnetic waves around the Earth, converted to sound, is almost like listening to singing and chirping birds at dawn with a crackling campfire…
Before NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) started science operations on July 25, 2018, the planet hunter sent back a stunning sequence of serendipitous images…
An international team of paleontologists and other geoscientists has discovered the first North American co-occurrence of hadrosaur and therizinosaur tracks in the lower Cantwell Formation…
In the search for obesity treatments, scientists recently zeroed in on a gene known as Nucleobindin-2 (Nucb2), which was believed to play a role in…