NASA Scientists Are Developing Tools to Allow Astronauts to “Live Off the Land”
Similar to when early explorers crossed vast oceans to reach new worlds, NASA engineers and scientists now are developing the tools that will allow astronauts…
Similar to when early explorers crossed vast oceans to reach new worlds, NASA engineers and scientists now are developing the tools that will allow astronauts…
New research from MIT shows that a graphene layer one atom thick could quadruple the rate of condensation heat transfer in generating plants. Most of…
New research from MIT and Aarhus University reveals that 74 exoplanets orbit their respective stars in circular patterns, much like the planets of our solar…
A newly published study reveals that cavity shaving halved the rates of positive margins and reexcision among patients with partial mastectomy. Removing more tissue during…
These new images from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft were taken when Dione was closer to the camera, making the moon appear much larger than Rhea. Is…
This newly released Hubble image shows elliptical galaxy Messier 84. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the galaxy Messier 84 — also known as…
A newly published study from Yale University shows that key areas of the brain that help regulate emotions develop differently in adolescents with bipolar disorder….
Astronomers believe glowing aurorae of blue, with red and green hues, would be visible to astronauts walking on Mars. For the first time, an international…
This new image of filament G49 reveals how matter is distributed across our Milky Way galaxy. New images of huge filamentary structures of gas and…
Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to conduct a large survey to investigate the relationship between galaxies that have undergone mergers and the activity of…
NASA’s Cassini spacecraft is set to take its last up-close look at Saturn’s moon Hyperion on Sunday, May 31. The Saturn-orbiting spacecraft will pass Hyperion…
By using probiotics, a team of engineers has devised a new way to detect cancer that has spread to the liver. Many types of cancer,…
A newly published study details how neuroscientists from MIT identified a neural circuit that controls decision-making under conflict. Some decisions arouse far more anxiety than…
New X-ray and gamma-ray observations of distant quasars are being used to help scientists set limits on the quantum nature of space-time on extremely tiny…
This new image from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows finer details of the dwarf planet Ceres. The spacecraft snapped the image at a distance of 3,200…
This newly released image from the European Southern Observatory shows the young star-forming region RCW 34. In the brightest region of this glowing nebula called…
Researchers from MIT have developed a new algorithm that lets autonomous robots divvy up assembly tasks on the fly, an important step forward in multirobot…
This 12-frame mosaic was taken by Galileo’s camera when the spacecraft was 94,000 kilometers from Europa, providing the highest resolution view ever obtained of the…