Meteor Smoke Detected in Noctilucent Clouds
First noticed in 1885, noctilucent clouds have left researchers with many unanswered questions and now that scientists working on NASA’s AIM mission have detected bits…
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Jaw Structures of Fossils Seems to Suggest That Three Homo Species Roamed Africa Concurrently
New evidence, presented as fossilized skulls, has been discovered that seems to imply that three different and distinct species belonging to the genus Homo existed…
First Full-Resolution Images from Curiosity’s Navigation Cameras
NASA’s Curiosity rover continues to take images of Mars surface and Gale Crater. These latest images include the first full-resolution images of the Martian surface…
Gigantic Ice Avalanches Discovered on Saturn’s Moon Iapetus
Planetary scientists discovered unexpected and enormous ice avalanches on Saturn’s moon Iapetus, half of which is light-colored while the other is dark. Its mountains are…
LCLS Measurements Challenge Plasma Theories
By targeting super-thin aluminum with X-rays at LCLS, scientists were able to analyze and pinpoint how much energy it takes to knock electrons from highly…
Curiosity’s First Color Image of Mars
Taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the afternoon of the first day after landing, the above image is Curiosity’s first color image…
Microfluidic System Precisely Measures Mammalian Cell Growth Rates
Using a microfluidic system for simultaneously measuring single-cell mass and cell cycle progression over multiple generations, a team of researchers from MIT and Harvard Medical…
First Images from NASA’s Curiosity on Mars
The above image is one of the first images taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover after its successful landing on Mars. Pasadena, California — NASA’s most…
Newly Designed Transcription Factors Can Bind to DNA and Turn on Specific Genes
A new study from MIT and Boston University scientists describes a new method of using zinc fingers to design transcription factors for nonbacterial cells and…
Data Reveals Swift J1644+57’s QPO Cycle
A newly published study describes the X-ray signal, called a quasi-periodic oscillation or QPO, that was observed the days following the last years discovery of…
Images from ESA’s Mars Express Reveals the Features of Ladon Basin
New images from the high-resolution stereo camera on ESA’s Mars Express reveals a variety of features of several impact craters and their surrounding areas on…
Visual Evidence that Atmospheric Particles Can Undergo Liquid–Liquid Phase Separations
Data from a newly published study provides visual evidence that atmospheric particles separate into distinct chemical compositions during their life cycle and may play a…
Images of Brain Connectivity Help Predict Intelligence
A newly published study from neuroscientists at the Washington University in St. Louis provides evidence that neural connections between the lateral prefrontal cortex and the…
ESO’s New Image of Spiral Galaxy NGC 1187
Captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope, this new image from the European Southern Observatory is the most detailed ever taken of spiral galaxy NGC 1187,…
Astronomers Detect X-rays from the Remains of Supernova SN 1957D
After 8 and a half days of observations of the spiral galaxy M83, astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory detected X-rays from the remains of…
Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator Achieves World Record Performance
Nearing completion, the laser system of the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator delivered something that no other laser system has achieved, a petawatt of power in…
Geotail Satellite Still Sending Back Crucial Information after 20 Years of Service
Launched just over twenty years ago, the joint Geotail mission satellite is still operational and sending back crucial information about how aurora form, how energy…
A Connection between Volatiles in the Subsurface of Mars and the Impact Process
While examining detailed images of Martian impact craters from the HiRISE camera, Western University scientists discovered further evidence for the interaction between subsurface volatiles and…
