Skydiver Baumgartner Makes Jump From 13 Miles Above Earth’s Surface
The daredevil skydiver Felix Baumgartner rode a pressurized capsule to an altitude of 71,580 feet, about 13.5 miles (21.7 kilometers), situated in the stratosphere, and…
The daredevil skydiver Felix Baumgartner rode a pressurized capsule to an altitude of 71,580 feet, about 13.5 miles (21.7 kilometers), situated in the stratosphere, and…
The Concorde was the perfect means of oversea travel until expensive tickets, high fuel costs, limited seating and noise disruption from the jet’s sonic boom…
By exposing pregnant mice to radiation from a cell phone, a new study provides the first experimental evidence that fetal exposure to radiofrequency radiation from…
A new study shows that Saccoglossus kowalevskii, a sea-dwelling, bottom-feeding acorn worm, has a similarities to humans although the worms are separated from vertebrates by…
While studying male fruit flies, researchers discovered that sexually deprived flies will consume more alcohol than sexually satisfied male flies and that the flies’ behavior…
Experiments show that scouting bees, much like novelty-seeking humans, have differences in brain activity in genes related to dopamine and glutamate signaling between neurons. Genomic…
By following the dynamics of a quantum system of strongly correlated ultracold atoms in an optical lattice, a team of physicists has demonstrated the superiority…
By coating a DVD disc with a film of graphite oxide that is then laser treated inside a LightScribe DVD drive to produce graphene electrodes,…
Quasars, which are powered by supermassive black holes, are among the brightest objects in the universe and make it nearly impossible for astronomers to estimate…
A new study suggests that hummingbirds are more interested in the location of the flower than the actual color of it. The published research states…
A new study based in the UK shows that fear provoked by graphic images had no effect on smokers’ intentions to stop smoking and that…
New research at SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) has shown a promising new way to collect data on membrane proteins in the human body….
The development of metamaterials continues to move forward as physicists at Harvard have used short and powerful laser pulses to create 3-D patterns of tiny…
A new study showed that locomotion could be restored in mice with a Huntington’s-like condition by using GABA neurons forged from human embryonic stem cells….
While using X-ray pulses, a team of scientists was able to observe how magnetism in nickel and iron atoms works, which could lead to faster…
A new study links the death of honeybees to the technology used for planting corn that has been coated with insecticides. While the insecticides themselves…
Scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory are researching ways to use methane as a clean energy source by capturing the CO2 byproduct in an…
After more than 2.7 million images taken at four infrared wavelengths of light and more than 15 trillion bytes of returned data from the WISE…