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…
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…
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…
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…
A study of 600 orcas revealed that a mother’s presence increases a son’s chance of survival significantly. The mothers are driven by an innate drive…
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…
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…
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. NASA’s…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Gibbons have mastered some of the vocal techniques that are akin to what human sopranos rely on whilst delivering their operas. Japanese scientists have been…
Scientists have been able to generate the world’s fastest laser pulse with a beam shot for 67 attoseconds (0.000000000000000067 seconds). This breaks the previous record…
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows Arp 116, which is composed of a giant elliptical galaxy known as Messier 60, and a…