Cassini Detects Methane Lakes on Titan
Using its visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected methane lakes in the tropical region known as Shangri-La on Saturn’s moon Titan….
Using its visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has detected methane lakes in the tropical region known as Shangri-La on Saturn’s moon Titan….
With microbes outnumbering human cells by 10 to 1, the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) Consortium looks at how these microorganisms coexist with their human hosts…
During a NASA-sponsored ICESCAPE expedition, scientists found a massive algal bloom under the Arctic sea ice. Once thought impossible, this marks the first direct observation…
By combining methane measurements from a tower with model predictions of expected methane signals, scientists were able to revise the estimate of the methane emissions…
A new study challenges prevailing ideas about how supermassive black holes grow in the centers of galaxies, finding that two supermassive black holes and their…
Using images from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory and the New Solar Telescope to study the sun and the dynamics behind solar explosions, scientists discovered narrow…
Scientists have completed their search for the existence of knots in the fabric of space using data from NASA’s WMAP satellite, finding no evidence of…
A team of engineers has developed a glucose fuel cell fabricated from silicon and consisting of a platinum catalyst that strips electrons from glucose, mimicking…
By using a pattern of tiny inverted pyramids etched into the surface of silicon, engineers at MIT found a new technique for building silicon solar…
By examining nearby galaxies for signs of reionization, international researchers gained important insight about the Universe and how it emerged from the “dark ages.” An…
New research from scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics supports the view that the content of consciousness is not localized in a…
A new technique developed by an international research team uses X-ray laser pulses from SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source to zap the innermost electrons out…
A new study from evolutionary biologists at Yale University examined the butterfly species Bicyclus anynana and their mating patterns, finding that female butterflies of the…
NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope recently detected a solar flare that produced enough gamma rays to briefly make the sun the brightest object in the…
A new algorithm created by MIT researchers enables a robot to quickly learn an individual’s preference for a certain task and adapt accordingly to help…
A new study from scientists at MIT gives a comprehensive look at how chronic inflammation of organs, often caused by viral or bacterial infections, provokes…
While Valrey Rozov didn’t set a BASE jumping world record when he jumped off the 21,466-foot (6,543-meter) summit of Shivling, a Himalayan mountain in India,…
A team of material science engineers from Harvard developed SLIPS (Slippery Liquid Infused Porous Surfaces), a technology that can prevent ice sheets from developing on…