Hubble Zooms In on Spiral Galaxy IC 2560
Released last week, this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope gives a close-up view of spiral galaxy IC 2560. Lying over 110 million light-years…
Released last week, this new image from the Hubble Space Telescope gives a close-up view of spiral galaxy IC 2560. Lying over 110 million light-years…
A newly published study reveals that copper alloys rapidly destroy the highly infectious norovirus. Scientists from the University of Southampton have discovered that copper and…
Using materials fabricated from gold particles and light-sensitive molecules of porphyin, researchers have developed a new method for harvesting energy from light. Researchers from the…
This newly released Hubble image shows the many stars of dwarf galaxy ESO 540-31. The glittering specks in this image, resembling a distant flock of…
A team of scientists from the University of Leeds has discovered that chemical reactions once thought to be ‘impossible’ in the coldness of space can…
A team of astronomers has used the Low Frequency Receiver onboard the twin Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory spacecraft to deduce the characteristics of nanodust, showing…
Scientists from Curtin University and the Technical University Munich have created the highest-resolution maps of Earth’s gravity field to date, revealing gravitational variations up to…
In a newly published study, Yale researchers reveal that a protein within the cell membrane called metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 is the missing link in…
A team of physicists has developed a theoretical model to help explain some of the deviations between previous measurements of the expansion rate of the…
Using data from an intercontinental combination of radio telescopes, astronomers have been able to see massive clumps of cold gas being pushed away from the…
A Phase I clinical trial of an implantable vaccine to treat melanoma has begun. A cross-disciplinary team of scientists, engineers, and clinicians announced today that…
Scientists have confirmed that the northwest Pacific is home to the largest single volcano yet documented on Earth. Houston – A University of Houston (UH)…
In a new study, scientists report on the first ten identifications of sources serendipitously detected by NuSTAR. NASA’s black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array,…
Based on data spanning four decades from eleven different spacecraft, a new study shows that interstellar wind most likely changed direction over the last 40…
A newly published study measures distances, luminosities, and temperatures of brown dwarfs, finding that they are warmer than previously thought with temperatures about 400-450 K…
Physicists from the Max Planck Institute and the Perimeter Institute in Canada have developed a new approach to the unification of the general theory of…
This new four minute ScienceCast video details the upcoming NASA LADEE mission to explore lunar twilight rays and other mysteries of the lunar atmosphere. A…
In a newly published study, scientists detail the development of an experimental compound that reverses Down syndrome-like learning deficits in mice. Researchers at Johns Hopkins…