ESA’s Gaia Spacecraft Ready to Create a 3D Map of the Milky Way Galaxy
Set to launch on November 20th, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft will create a highly accurate 3D map of the Milky Way Galaxy by repeatedly observing a…
Set to launch on November 20th, ESA’s Gaia spacecraft will create a highly accurate 3D map of the Milky Way Galaxy by repeatedly observing a…
After four plus years of service, scientists prepare the Planck satellite for its final shutdown and for permanent safe disposal. In preparation for its final…
A newly published study from scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory demonstrates a general strategy for the creation of heterogeneous nanoparticle superlattices using DNA and…
A new hair restoration method developed by researchers at Columbia University Medical Center is the first to induce new human hair growth. New York, New…
As “big data” from space missions continues to pour in, scientists and software engineers are coming up with new strategies for managing the ever-increasing flow…
Using a novel astronomical survey software system, the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF), astronomers have identified the first progenitor of a stripped envelope supernova. In…
Scientists at the Imperial College London have shown that the efficiency of solar panel designs can be improved by up to 22 percent by covering…
Asteroid 2013 TV135 was discovered on October 8, 2013, roughly three weeks after it made a “close” approach to Earth. Newly discovered asteroid 2013 TV135…
In a newly published study, researchers from NASA’s Ames Research Center and Iowa State University detail the discovery of two planets in the Kepler-56 planetary…
Using data from the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope, astronomers use gravitational waves to better understand the growth of massive black holes. Supermassive black holes: every…
Astronomers have detected the most distant gravitational lens yet, a lensing mass so distant that the light, after having been deflected, has traveled 9.4 billion…
In a newly published study, EPFL scientists have for the first time predicted and experimentally verified the existence of the Magnetic Seebeck Effect. EPFL scientists…
Scientists have discovered the earliest known complete nervous system preserved in the fossilized remains of a 520 million-year-old arthropod. A team of researchers led by…
A newly published study sheds new light on star death, finding that the brightest supernovae are the result of a type of explosion within the…
Physicists from LMU have uncovered a feature with which the decoherence of a quantum system can be tuned and substantially reduced, providing an important advance…
In a recently published study, researchers from Cornell University detail how they developed gold-plated nanoparticles that are able to find and destroy cancer cells. Comparable…
Scientists from the Stanford School of Medicine have developed a new method of recording brain activity that could lead to “mind-reading” applications that would allow…
Using data from Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, two newly published studies probe black hole jets at very different scales: a nearby and relatively quiet black…