Mars Express: Making a Splash in a Lava Sea
Volcanoes, impact craters, tectonic faults, river channels, and a lava sea: a vast amount of information is captured in a relatively small area in this…
Volcanoes, impact craters, tectonic faults, river channels, and a lava sea: a vast amount of information is captured in a relatively small area in this…
The animal kingdom is full of creatures with active camouflage. What looks like a drab pile of sand and rocks might actually be a brightly…
NASA and China plan to mount crewed missions to Mars in the next decade. While this represents a tremendous leap in terms of space exploration,…
Informing how birds know when and where to stop migrating, researchers using nearly a century’s worth of data report that the Eurasian reed warbler –…
The startup r2c, founded by MIT alumni, offers a database of software security checks to simplify the process of securing code. The unfortunate reality of…
The first set of middle-schoolers in the agency’s “You’ve Got Perseverance!” campaign was honored with a message from the Red Planet and a chat with…
Scientists will learn about objects trespassing on our cosmic turf So far, only two interstellar objects have been spotted buzzing through our solar system, but…
Astronomers have been using gravitational waves to detect merging black holes for years now, but may have to rely on pulsars – rapidly spinning neutron…
Any physical activity is better late than never but earlier in older age, better still. Twenty minutes of daily moderate to vigorous exercise in early…
Elephant sharks offer a novel perspective on how humans evolved; a new study parses some previously unexplained reproductive differences. Researchers at University of California San…
A group of 60 scientists called for a moratorium on solar geoengineering last month, including technologies such as stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI). This involves a…
The ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft has captured the largest solar prominence eruption ever observed in a single image together with the full solar disc. Solar…
Dissolving Oil in a Sunlit Sea The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill was the largest marine oil spill in United States history. The disaster was…
New technique could make quantum networking possible. Engineers at Caltech have developed an approach for quantum storage could help pave the way for the development…
The rover has racked up a series of accomplishments, including new distance records, as it reaches the end of the first of several planned science…
Researchers led by bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have identified and characterized a previously unrecognized key player in cancer evolution: clusters of…
When performing calculations, some neurons are active when adding, others when subtracting. The brain has neurons that fire specifically during certain mathematical operations. This is…
MIT spinout Safi Organics uses farmers’ crop residue to make an organic fertilizer that can increase yields and improve soil health. Most commercial fertilizer travels…