New Planck Data Explore the History of Our Universe
New research from the Planck Mission is refining what we know about our universe, making more precise measurements of matter, including dark matter, and how…
New research from the Planck Mission is refining what we know about our universe, making more precise measurements of matter, including dark matter, and how…
A newly published study suggests that too much strenuous jogging may be harmful, revealing that over the 12-year study strenuous joggers were as likely to…
Using the Titius-Bode relation and Kepler data, astronomers from Australian National University estimate that the standard star has about two planets in the habitable zone….
A newly published study from MIT details how certain crystal boundaries can enhance, or reduce, the damaging effects that lead to metal embrittlement. When a…
Researchers from Yale University found that during seizures the arousal centers in the brain stem are actually suppressed, leading to a loss of consciousness. People…
Taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 in visible light, these new images capture the rare occurrence of three of Jupiter’s largest moons (Europa, Callisto,…
Headed towards Pluto, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured this new image of Pluto and its moon Charon. NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft returned its first…
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has acquired its latest and closest-yet snapshot of Ceres. At a resolution of 8.5 miles (14 kilometers) per pixel, the pictures represent…
A newly released image taken from ESO’s VISTA survey telescope shows the Trifid Nebula and reveals hidden variable stars. By observing in infrared light, astronomers…
Using CWRU’s Burrell Schmidt telescope at KPNO, astronomers identify two new tidal streams extending from the northeast and south of the nearby spiral galaxy M51a….
By scanning the brains of people engaged in selective attention to sensations, researchers from Brown University have learned how the brain appears to coordinate the…
A new theoretical model describes the relationship between a leaf’s flexibility, the fragmentation of the fluid, and its resulting pattern of raindrop-induced dispersal. Using high-speed…
A new review of the literature evaluated the findings of nearly 200 published papers that studied the effectiveness of five nutritional supplements on depression, revealing…
Yale researchers have identified an unexpected relationship between mtDNA and the innate immune response, showing a new source of inflammation that could promote common diseases…
A new analysis of data has found no conclusive evidence of gravitational waves from the early universe, showing that much of the signal detected by…
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics report that, when compared with non-interacting field galaxies, the star formation rate does indeed increase in merging spirals,…
This newly released Hubble image shows spiral galaxy NGC 7814. Galaxies can take many shapes and be oriented in any way relative to us in…
Using a qubit design that employs nitrogen atoms embedded in synthetic diamond, a team of researchers has developed a new technique that greatly extends the…