Russian Impact Crater Might Contain Trillions of Carats of Diamonds
On Monday, Novosibirsk scientists of the Institute of Geology and Mineralogy at the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences announced that there is…
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DARPA’s CT2WS Program Improves Target Detection
Launched in 2008 to improve the ability to detect threats from standoff distances, DARPA’s CT2WS program uses human brainwaves, improved sensors, and cognitive algorithms to…
Improved Estimates of DNA’s Mutation Rate Paint Clearer Picture of Human Prehistory
Since the 1960s, DNA has changed the story of human ancestry. Some studies have shown that all modern humans are descended from ancestors who lived…
Dark Energy Camera Captures its First Images
Located on a mountaintop in Chile, the newly-constructed Dark Energy Camera is the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created and has captured and recorded its…
Atomic Bond Types Clearly Discernible Thanks to Single-Molecule Images
A team from IBM in Zürich has released images they captured of single-molecules that are so detailed that the type of atomic bonds between their…
NASA’s Opportunity Discovers Geological Mystery on Mars
NASA’s Opportunity rover discovered puzzling spherical objects on Mars at a rock outcrop called Kirkwood. The spherules vary in composition, concentration, distribution and structure from…
Mother’s Presence Increases Survivability of Male Orca Offspring
A study of 600 orcas revealed that a mother’s presence increases a son’s change of survival significantly. The mothers are driven by an innate drive…
Pr0201b and Pr0211b Orbiting Sun-Like Stars in the Beehive Cluster
For the first time, a team of astronomers have spotted two new “Hot Jupiter” planets, called Pr0201b and Pr0211b, orbiting sun-like stars in the Beehive…
Volcanic Eruption at Fuego in Guatemala Intensifies
There has been renewed activity at Fuego in Guatemala. The eruption is becoming more intense, although news reports coming out of the region are unclear…
NASA Data Suggests “Dry Ice” Snowfall on Mars
Using data from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists have detected carbon-dioxide snow clouds on Mars and evidence of carbon-dioxide snow falling to the surface. Pasadena,…
Human Embryonic Stem Cells Restore Partial Hearing in Gerbils
There are more than 275 million people that have moderate to profound hearing loss, and many are caused by a breach in the connection between…
Cloud of Hydrogen and Helium Plunging Toward the Galactic Center
Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believe that the recently discovered cloud of hydrogen and helium plunging toward the galactic center represents the shredded…
A New Image of The Pencil Nebula
A new image from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the Pencil Nebula, which…
“Habitable Zone” Might Help Extreme Life Forms Survive on Exoplanets
A newly published study examines the “habitable zone” that scientists believe might play a role in the survival of extreme life forms, like lichens and…
How Aerosol Particles form in the Amazon
To better understand how aerosol particles form in the Amazon, an international team of scientists analyzed samples of naturally formed aerosols collected deep in the…
Sandia’s Robot Hand Can Replace Battery in Flashlight
While the dream of fully autonomous cybernetic prosthetics might still be some time away, Sandia scientists have developed a robotic hand that has enough engineered…
Brain Scans Help Predict Whether Patients Will Respond to Therapy
Newly published research details how a team of scientists discovered that the effectiveness of social anxiety therapy could be predicted by measuring patients’ brain activity…
Hubble Zooms in on the Center of M4
This new image from Hubble shows an up-close look at the center of M4 or Messier 4, a global cluster located in the constellation of…