Webb Space Telescope’s Million Mile Journey to L2 Is Nearly Complete
On Monday, January 24, engineers plan to instruct NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to complete a final correction burn that will place it into its…
Drinking Coffee May Protect Against Endometrial Cancer
Higher coffee consumption is linked with a lower risk of endometrial cancer, a type of cancer that begins in the lining of uterus, according to…
DNA Mutations Are Not Random: New Research Radically Changes Our Understanding of Evolution
Findings could lead to advances in plant breeding, human genetics. A simple roadside weed may hold the key to understanding and predicting DNA mutation, according…
Ancient Space Dust Analysis Could Solve Mystery of Origins of Earth’s Water
An international team of scientists may have solved a key mystery about the origins of Earth’s water, after uncovering persuasive new evidence pointing to an…
How Can Next-Generation Computer Chips Reduce Our Carbon Footprint?
A Q&A with two scientists aiming to overcome limits in computing power and energy efficiency by designing new microchips. Our laptops and smartphones are compact…
Massive Iceberg Released Over 150 Billion Tons of Fresh Water Into Ocean As It Scraped Past South Georgia
Scientists monitoring the giant A68A Antarctic iceberg from space reveal that a huge amount of fresh water was released as it melted around the sub-Antarctic…
COVID Lockdowns Saved Lives of the Old and Sick, While Sacrificing the Young
Lockdowns during early pandemic saved lives, but not a go-to strategy moving forward. The U.S. pandemic lockdown in 2020 caused a $2.3 trillion economic downturn…
COVID-19 Vaccination Does Not Affect the Chances of Conceiving a Child
NIH-funded research shows infection can affect male fertility. COVID-19 vaccination does not affect the chances of conceiving a child, according to a study of more…
Trillion Dollar Future “Space Economy” Threatened by Debris
The space economy is on track to be valued at a trillion dollars by the end of 2030, according to Piyush Mehta, assistant professor of…
Using Ice To Boil Water: Heat Transfer Discovery Expands on 18th Century Physics Principle
Associate Professor Jonathan Boreyko and graduate fellow Mojtaba Edalatpour have made a discovery about the properties of water that could provide an exciting addendum to…
Crystallography for Misfit Crystals: Advanced Algorithms Reveal Material Structures
Advanced algorithms plus an exceptional X-ray laser can reveal the structures of not-so-neat-and-tidy materials unattainable by other techniques. Francis Crick, who famously co-discovered the shape…
NASA Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Grounded: First Flight Delay Due to Inclement Weather on Another World
Flight 19 for NASA’s Ingenuity is scheduled to take place no earlier than Sunday, January 23, 2022. The atmosphere of Mars is much less dense…
A Stellar Merger’s Astrophysical Evolution in the “Blink of an Eye”
Everything we see in the universe is a snapshot of the past: As light takes its time to reach our telescopes, the system we’re observing…
The End of Cosmic Dark Ages: How NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Could Expand on Hubble’s Deepest View
A team of astrophysicists has created a simulated image that shows how the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could conduct a mega-exposure similar to but…
Merging Design, Tech, and Cognitive Science at MIT
Senior Ibuki Iwasaki seeks creative ways to design technology that considers the human user. Ibuki Iwasaki came to MIT without a clear idea of what…
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory Captures Mid-Level Flare Erupting From the Sun
The Sun emitted a mid-level solar flare on January 20, 2022, peaking at 1:01 a.m. EST. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly,…
Large Hadron Collider: First Detection of Exotic “X” Particles in Quark-Gluon Plasma
The findings could redefine the kinds of particles that were abundant in the early universe. In the first millionths of a second after the Big…
More Body Fat Than Expected in Granddaughters of Men Who Started To Smoke Before Puberty
Research shows granddaughters and great-granddaughters of men who start to smoke before puberty have more body fat than expected. A new study, led by the…