How Astronomers Search for Habitable Exoplanets
As the search for habitable planets continues, astronomers detail how they determine which exoplanets have all the right conditions for life to thrive. There is…
As the search for habitable planets continues, astronomers detail how they determine which exoplanets have all the right conditions for life to thrive. There is…
The UK government will invest £60 million towards the development of the world’s first air-breathing rocket engine, the SABRE. Through the UK Space Agency, the…
Engineers at Yale University have developed a method that allows them to vary one aspect of a material’s microstructure while holding all other features constant,…
In a new DNA study, an international team of scientists reveal clues to human and ape evolution, finding that the evolutionary history of ancestral great…
Scientists at MIT have discovered a “hidden flux” of material deep in the Earth’s mantle that would make the planet’s overall composition more similar to…
Using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory, astronomers watch in real time as a gas cloud is being ripped apart by the…
This three minute video from NASA details and explains the journey of sungrazing comets, like comet ISON, as they round the sun. Comet ISON, which…
Scientists from the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University have developed a new interactive website that models the interiors of exoplanets. An interactive tool to…
Engineers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a 3D+2D television that combines both 2D and 3D, allowing viewers with stereo glasses to see three-dimensional images,…
In a newly published study, Yale University researchers detail the evolutionary history of the 18,000 species of spiny-rayed fishes, finding close evolutionary relationships between lineages…
Researchers from Monash University have developed a liquid-based thermocell that could harvest waste heat and convert it into electricity with no carbon emissions. Harvesting waste…
By combining data from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager, scientists were able to create a comprehensive view…
While analyzing Neptune photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, an astronomer discovered a new moon orbiting Neptune. Designated S/2004 N 1, the new moon…
In a new study, evolutionary anthropologists reveal that attractive bonobo females are more likely to win conflicts against males. Female social dominance over males is…
A team of researchers has identified a new form of carbon, a “grossly warped nanographene.” Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts – Chemists at Boston College and Nagoya…
A new study from Rice University details a 1-kilobit rewritable silicon oxide memory device with diodes that eliminate data-corrupting crosstalk. A Rice University laboratory pioneering…
In a newly published study, researchers from UC Davis identify a biomarker for autism in a subset of children, finding that the mothers of children…
A newly released Hubble image shows the remains of a star known as planetary nebula IC 289. This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the…