Chip-Scale Device Enables Yale Engineers to ‘See Without Looking’
Engineers at the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science have developed a chip-scale device that uses the wave-particle duality of single photons to sense…
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Saturn’s Moon Mimas May Have a Liquid Water Ocean Beneath the Surface
New data from NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft reveal that Saturn’s moon Mimas may have a liquid water ocean beneath the moon’s impact-battered surface. A new study…
21-Day Quarantine Might Not Be Enough to Prevent the Spread of Ebola
A new study from Drexel University suggests that 21 days might not be enough to completely prevent the spread of Ebola, revealing that there could…
APEX Telescope Reveals Star Formation in Unexpected Places
A team of astronomers used the APEX telescope to probe the Spiderweb Cluster, revealing that much of the star formation taking place is hidden by…
Herschel Observations and Simulations of the Debris Disk Around Tau Ceti
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics studied the debris disc around τ Ceti, revealing that a Jupiter-mass planet could not be present in this…
NASA Prepares For Comet’s Close Encounter with Mars
NASA is preparing its science fleet for comet Sliding Spring’s close encounter with Mars, which will occur on October 19 when Sliding Spring passes within…
Yale Engineers Develop Hybrid System for Quantum Communication
Using microwaves and magnets, researchers at the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science developed a hybrid system for quantum communication. Yale engineers have developed…
NuSTAR Discovers Brightest Pulsar to Date
Using NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, astronomers have detected the brightest pulsar to date, located about 12 million light-years away in the galaxy Messier 82….
Satellite Records Show Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum
Long-term satellite records show that the five-day average of Antarctic sea ice extent reached a new record high this year. This year, Antarctic sea ice…
Genetic History of HIV Reveals the Pandemic’s Origins
A newly published study from Oxford University and the University of Leuven reveals that the HIV pandemic with us today is almost certain to have…
NASA’s GRAIL Mission Solves a Lunar Mystery Almost as Old as the Moon Itself
Using new data obtained by NASA’s GRAIL mission, astronomers discovered that a volcanic plume, not an asteroid, likely created the moon’s largest basin. Early theories…
NASA’s Swift Detects a Massive Superflare from a Red Dwarf Star
NASA’s Swift satellite detected a massive superflare from a red dwarf star in the binary system DG CVn. The initial blast was as much as…
ALMA Finds Direct Evidence That Merging Galaxies Can Form Disc Galaxies
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) and several other radio telescopes, astronomers find direct evidence that merging galaxies can form disc galaxies instead of…
Biologist Reveal Boost in Certain Amino Acids is an Early Sign of Cancer
Based on an analysis of blood samples from 1,500 people participating in long-term health studies, biologists found that people with a surge in amino acids…
Astronomers Discover Clear Skies and Water Vapor on Neptune-Size Exoplanet
Using the combined power of NASA’s Spitzer, Hubble and Kepler space telescopes, researchers have discovered clear skies and water vapor on a Neptune-size gaseous exoplanet…
New Research Mathematically Proves Quantum Effects Stop the Formation of Black Holes
New research by Laura Mersini-Houghton at UNC-Chapel Hill mathematically proves that quantum effects are strong enough to stop the formation of black holes, opening up…
Planetary Scientists Debate: Is Pluto a Planet?
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics held a new debate to discuss the planetary status of Pluto. What is a planet? For generations of kids, the…
UNIGE Physicists Teleport Quantum State of a Photon to a Crystal
Quantum physicists have teleported the quantum state of a photon to a crystal over 25 kilometers of optical fiber, smashing the previous record of 6…
