NASA’s GISS Releases Data Showing 2011 was Ninth-Warmest Year on Record
2011 proved to be another warm year for the average global temperature. NASA scientists stated that 2011 was the ninth warmest year since 1880 and…
2011 proved to be another warm year for the average global temperature. NASA scientists stated that 2011 was the ninth warmest year since 1880 and…
Using the 10-meter Keck-11 Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, a team of researchers discovered a dark dwarf galaxy 9.8 billion light-years from Earth. This is…
The recent NASA satellite image shows that La Niña is peaking in intensity, increasing the odds that the southern and southwestern United States will remain…
A recent discovery shows that people living along the coast of Peru were eating corn in several fashions, including popcorn and flour corn, before ceramic…
Together, the twin telescopes of the Gemini Observatory, which consists of two 8.1 m (27 ft) telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, provide almost complete coverage…
Proteus Biomedical’s smart pills, which are pills that include embedded microchips, are set to launch this year in the United Kingdom, with the collaboration of…
The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory helps map the sun’s magnetic fields and has been gathering data since 2010. Recent vector…
Traco and the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy partnered up to developed the new energy efficient OptiQ Ultra Thermal Windows. These windows…
The European Space Agency’s Hershel space telescope has captured new, gorgeous views of the Eagle Nebula, located 6,500 light-years away in the Serpens constellation. The…
The evolutionary transition between single-celled organisms and multicellular life as we know it took several billion years to occur in nature, but under artificial pressure,…
MIT researchers discovered a new algorithm that is faster than the Fourier transform. This new algorithm is based on two key ideas: divide a signal…
In hope that NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft will be able to transmit data through 2025, NASA has decided they need to further reduce its power…
Current technology is limited for imaging objects in space since researchers use astronomical long-baseline interferometers and can only view objects from limited angles. DARPA is…
A group of renowned researchers combined their interests in the high-pressure studies of water, condensed matter physics, and the discovery of new chemistries to predict…
Climate change could cost North America, East Asia, and the Caribbean billions more than it already does. New information from researchers at MIT and Yale…
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is spending its fifth winter on Mars and is now exploring a site known as “Greeley Haven.” Due to a…
The fossils, which had been ‘lost’ for 165 years, were rediscovered by chance by the British Geological Survey. Some of these were collected by Charles…
The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which was supposed to have traveled to Phobos, a moon of Mars, and back, crashed on Earth. The ambitious project crashed into…