Study Reveals Two Dynamos Drive Jupiter’s Magnetic Field
With the aid of computer simulations, a team of scientists has now succeeded in explaining the origin of the magnetic field deep inside Jupiter. Superlatives…
With the aid of computer simulations, a team of scientists has now succeeded in explaining the origin of the magnetic field deep inside Jupiter. Superlatives…
New insights into the details of photosynthetic water splitting have provided a blueprint for synthetic systems that could store sunlight energy in chemical energy carriers….
Using data from the past decade, a new study shows that the rates of U.S. hospitalizations and deaths from heart disease and stroke have dropped…
A newly published study from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia discards the possibility that type Ia supernovae might stem from explosions of white dwarfs…
This new image from the European Southern Observatory shows two dramatic star formation regions (NGC 3603 and NGC 3576) in the southern Milky Way. This…
A new optoelectronic camouflage system inspired by the skins of cephalopods automatically reads its environment and adapts to mimic its surroundings. It could be a…
By using small organic molecules that absorb specific nonvisible wavelengths of sunlight, researchers at Michigan State University have developed a transparent luminescent solar concentrator that…
This newly released image from NASA’s Curiosity Rover shows a gray patch of rock material at the “Bonanza King” location. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used…
A team of biophysicists at Rice University used computer models to show that the energy landscape involved in the long-term evolution of proteins is essentially…
Using a microscopic obstacle course, researchers at Brown University observe cancer cells directly as they break away from a tumor mass and move. Providence, Rhode…
Scientists at MIT precisely dated the rocks in which the earliest dinosaur fossils were discovered in the southwestern United States, raising questions about when dinosaurs…
Using new computer technology based on gaming machines, physicists were able to use a combination of molecular dynamics and quantum mechanics calculations to model the…
This new four minute ScienceCasts video examines how researchers are beginning to measure exoplanets with extraordinary precision. ScienceCasts: Sizing up an Exoplanet: Astronomers are not…
A team of astronomers has uncovered rhythmic pulsations from a rare breed of black hole in archival data from NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer satellite….
This newly released Mars Express image shows craters within the Hellas Basin in the southern highlands of Mars. Scarring the southern highlands of Mars is…
Researchers have developed “bionic liquids” from lignin and hemicellulose, two by-products of biofuel production from biorefineries, paving the way closed loop biofuel refineries. While the…
Engineers at MIT recycle dangerous waste materials from discarded car batteries, revealing that the lead from a single car battery could produce enough solar panels…
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute reveal that a single factor can reset the immune system of mice to a state likely similar to what…