LCLS Probes Microscopic Components of Air Pollution
While working with SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source, a team of scientists showed that LCLS can drive a paradigm shift in imaging airborne particles, allowing…
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Gas Cloud Headed Towards Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
While monitoring the movement of stars around the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, astronomers discovered an ionized gas cloud with a…
“Acoustic Tweezers” Use Sound Waves to Control Items
Scientists have developed “acoustic tweezers” that use sound waves to control items regardless of their optical, electrical or magnetic properties, making them noninvasive and very…
Lonestar Supercomputer Helps Explore Dark Matter
By combining deep-space observations with the powerful Lonestar supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, astrophysicists hope to make revolutionary discoveries about dark matter. From…
Heat from Within the Planet Powers Saturn’s Jet Streams
Using automated cloud tracking software to analyze the movements and speeds of clouds seen in hundreds of Cassini images from 2005 through 2012, scientists have…
Prehistoric Fossilized Eocene Epoch Turtles Died Locked In Coitus
These extraordinary 47-million year old fossils depict prehistoric turtles reproducing. The study was led by Walter Joyce, of the University of Tübingen in Germany, and…
ULIRG Arp 220 Developed from a Multiple Merger of Four or More Galaxies
Using data from the Subaru Telescope and optical spectroscopy from the W. M. Keck Observatory, astronomers concluded that the ultraluminous infrared galaxy Arp 220 developed…
Microbial Life Lining Our GI Tracts Has Coevolved With Us
A new study from the Harvard Medical School suggests that the superabundant microbes lining our gastrointestinal tract are ultimately our evolutionary partners, shedding light on…
Rediscovery Sheds New Light on the Behavior of the Proboscis Anole
A team of scientists, encouraged by a handful of sightings, traveled to Mindo looking for a lizard once thought to be close to extinction –…
Data Suggests the Possible Presence of Ice at Shackleton Crater
Using a laser altimeter on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, a team of scientists have mapped Shackleton crater with unprecedented detail, finding possible evidence for…
Detailed Images of NGC 6357 from ESO’s Very Large Telescope
New images from European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope show detailed images of NGC 6357, which contains a cluster of high-mass stars whose inhabitants are…
Higgs Boson Might Have Been Discovered by LHC High Energy Physicists
In the high energy physics community, rumor and speculation is rife that Large Hadron Collider scientists will announce the discovery of the Higgs boson during…
Using Zebrafish to Decipher the Roles of Genes Associated with Autism
In an effort to identify the genes involved and develop treatments for human brain disorders, such as autism, researchers have taken a new approach. By…
European Cave Paintings Older Than Previously Thought, Might Have Been Painted by Neanderthals
Some European cave paintings are older than previously thought, implying that Neanderthals might have been their creators rather than Homo sapiens. It’s not yet certain,…
CO2 Snow Particles on Mars are About the Size of Red Blood Cells
By using data gathered from instruments onboard the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists at MIT have calculated the size of snow particles…
BaBar Data Suggests Possible Flaws in the Standard Model
Initial results from BaBar data suggest that a particular type of particle decay called “B to D-star-tau-nu” happens more often than the Standard Model says…
Ancient Antarctica Was Much Warmer and Wetter than Previously Suspected
In an effort to better understand what the future of climate change may look like, a team of scientists examined plant leaf wax remnants in…
Electrified Graphene Serves as a Shutter for Terahertz and Infrared Wavelengths of Light
New research from scientists at Rice University shows that when voltage is applied to a sheet of graphene on a silicon-based substrate it can turn…