Graphene is Transparent to Water
Graphene is the thinnest known material. In fact, according to a new study, it is so thin that it is essentially invisible to water when…
Solar Flare Causes Powerful Solar Radiation Storm
The most powerful solar radiation storm since 2005 was caused by a solar energetic particle event concurrent with an M8.7 class flare and a coronal…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Shows Dune Patterns of Titan
Images taken from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft show variations in the sizes of dunes found on Saturn’s moon Titan. Scientists believe these variations may be a…
IODP Expedition 339 Reports Findings from Mediterranean Seafloor
The 35 scientists from 14 countries participating in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) Expedition 339, Mediterranean Outflow, retrieved the first sediment samples from below…
MIT Neuroscientists Study Brain Activity to Learn About Empathy
MIT neuroscientists are studying the patterns of brain activity that correlate with empathy. They hope to use their findings to determine how well people respond…
Strong Geomagnetic Storms a Possibility After Active Sunspot 1401 Erupted
An active sunspot erupted on Sol on January 19th, at around 16:30 UT, which produced an M3-class solar flare as well as a full-halo coronal…
Hydrogen-Bubble-Powered Microrockets Could Deliver Drugs Directly Into Patient’s Bodies
Researchers have been designing a wide variety of self-propelled micromotors, many which operate using an oxygen-bubble propulsion mechanism that requires a high concentration of hydrogen…
Foldit Online Gamers Achieve Crowdsourced Redesign of Protein
Online gamers obsessed with puzzles have now topped what scientists had failed to do by themselves, which was to improve the model of an enzyme….
Diamonds Are Like the Earth’s Champagne Corks
It has been demonstrated experimentally that a diamond’s trip from deep below the Earth’s surface must be very quick, since lab tests have shown that…
MIT Physicists Study Superfluid to Better Understand Neutron Stars
MIT physicists are studying phase transition to gain a better understanding of superconductivity of electrons in metals. By examining how a gas turns into a…
Moratorium Into Research of Modified Contagious H5N1 Avian Flu Strains
Researchers have agreed to pause their work into the H5N1 avian influenza virus for the next 60 days. The research involved creating extra-contagious versions of…
Giant Magellan Telescope Gets Seven 28-Foot Mirrors and Adaptive Optics
The Giant Magellan Telescope is designed to employ a series of seven 28-foot mirrors, which will be arranged in a honeycomb pattern. It will be…
DARPA Researchers Use Electricity to Suppress Fire
DARPA’s research team at Harvard University is focusing on electricity as a means to fight fire. By using a flame-suppression system based on destabilization of…
Breakthrough in Converting Seaweed to Biofuel
Technology developed by Bio Architecture Lab, primarily an engineered microbe that can metabolize alginate, may make seaweed an economical feedstock for the production of biofuel. Since…
500 Million Year Old Tulip-Shaped Creature Discovered
Fossils found in the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies reveal a strange creature with a tulip shape. This ocean animal, officially named Siphusauctum…
Construction Begins on Space Shuttle Atlantis Exhibit at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex
On January 18, a groundbreaking ceremony marked the beginning of construction of a new exhibit that will become the permanent home for Space Shuttle Atlantis….
Survey Team Rediscovers Near-Extinct Monkey In the Jungles of Borneo
Researchers rediscovered Miller’s grizzled langur in Borneo’s jungles, which was feared extinct, in the rain forest preserve of Wehea, located 90 miles west of the…
VISTA Telescope Uses IR to Show Helix Nebula In New Light
The Helix Nebula in the Aquarius constellation, located some 700 light-years away from Earth, was just observed by the piercing infrared gaze of the VISTA…
