NASA’s Voyager 1 Experiences Three “Tsunami Waves” in Interstellar Space
New data show that the shock wave that NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft began experiencing in February 2014 is still propagating outward. It is the longest-lasting…
New data show that the shock wave that NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft began experiencing in February 2014 is still propagating outward. It is the longest-lasting…
Chemists at Umass Amherst have developed a multi-channel signature-based approach to screening drugs using gold nanoparticles with red, green, and blue outputs provided by fluorescent…
A newly published study from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health reveals that exposure to common household chemicals during pregnancy is linked to a…
A team of researchers has created the first 3D maps of entire folded genomes, identifying approximately 10,000 folding loops in the human genome. In a…
Using an approach called valleytronics, a team of researchers has cleared hurdles toward a new kind of 2D microchip that uses different electron properties. New…
A new geological map based on NASA images shows signs of ancient lakes and quakes on Mars. This animation simulates a flyover of a portion…
This newly released Hubble image shows dwarf galaxy Markarian 209. This sprinkle of cosmic glitter is a blue compact dwarf galaxy known as Markarian 209….
Scientists from the Imperial College London have used data, rather than calculations related to general relativity, to measure large distances in the Universe for the…
A team of paleontologists has discovered the oldest known “horned” dinosaur fossil from North America. Named Aquilops americanus, the species is 40 million years older…
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have detected Pluto-size objects around an adolescent Sun-like star. Scientists used the…
A team of astronomers has just completed the most extensive polarization survey of stars to date, detecting magnetic fields on sixty-seven stars with twenty-one of…
By using molecular fragments administered alongside antimicrobial agents, researchers at Brown University have shown that the efflux pumps are kept busy pumping out the fragments…
MIT scientists used precisely dated rocks from the Deccan Traps to reveal evidence that a major volcanic eruption began just before the asteroid impact that…
A team of scientists is building a supersized version of the dark matter detector Lux, called Lux-Zeplin, which will be roughly 100 times more sensitive…
Neuroscientists from the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory uncover a fundamental discovery about cortical neurons, showing that inhibitory neuron functionality is not an immutable…
Using a gene-editing system that was originally developed to delete specific genes, researchers from MIT developed a new technique to reliably turn on any gene…
This new Chandra image shows NGC 2207 and IC 2163, which have hosted three supernova explosions in the past 15 years and have produced one…
The Rosetta spacecraft has discovered that the composition of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s water vapor is significantly different from that found on Earth, reigniting the debate on…