Researchers Reveal a New Way to Enhance or Reduce the Adhesion of Freezing Droplets
Researchers from MIT have discovered a surprising new twist to the mechanics involved when droplets come in contact with surfaces, allowing them to enhance or…
Researchers from MIT have discovered a surprising new twist to the mechanics involved when droplets come in contact with surfaces, allowing them to enhance or…
Taken on October 28, 2016, Cassini captured one of its last looks at Saturn and its main rings. Cassini has been orbiting Saturn for nearly…
Using images from the last dedicated observation of the Enceladus plume by NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft, astronomers put together this short movie sequence. The images were…
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft performed its eighth flyby of Jupiter, capturing a series of up close and personal enhanced-color images of the gas giant planet. From…
This Hubble Space Telescope image of the week shows NGC 5398, a barred spiral galaxy located about 55 million light-years away. The galaxy is famous…
This newly released image from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft shows a wave structure in Saturn’s rings known as the Janus 2:1 spiral density wave. Resulting from…
Scientists at the Wyss Institute used synthetic biology techniques to discover that bacteria respond to antibiotics very differently — exactly opposite, in fact — inside…
NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft is nearing the end of a long journey rich with scientific and technical accomplishments, and it is having a powerful influence on…
In a new study, astronomers modeled observations of the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni during the most active phase of its June 2015 outburst….
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has officially named 14 Pluto surface features and many more will soon be proposed to the IAU, both on Pluto…
New research indicates older Sun-like stars settle down relatively quickly, boosting prospects for life to develop on planets around them. A new X-ray study has…
NASA’s Juno Mission reveals massive amounts of energy swirling over Jupiter’s polar regions that contribute to the giant planet’s powerful auroras – only not in…
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute discover a novel innate surveillance mechanism to fight off pathogenic Helicobacter strains. Half of all people are chronically infected…
The ChemCam instrument on NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover reveals Boron in calcium-sulfate veins on Mars, helping us better understand the timescale of habitability on Mars….
A team of engineers at UNSW have invented a radical new architecture for quantum computing, based on novel ‘flip-flop qubits’, that promises to make the…
A new Harvard study found that a guardian gene, which protects against Type 1 diabetes and other autoimmune diseases, exerts its pancreas-shielding effects by altering…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an image of a mid-level solar flare emitted from the sun on September 4th. The sun emitted a mid-level solar…
New research on black holes believed to have formed shortly after the Big Bang, might explain how gold, platinum and uranium are created. A long-standing…