ESO Views Star Cluster NGC 6520 and Its Dusty Neighbor Barnard 86
This new ESO image shows open star cluster NGC 6520 and its dusty neighbor Barnard 86, both are about 6,000 light-years away from our Sun….
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Award Winning Image of the Reflection Nebula Messier 78
Based on data from the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile, Igor Chekalin created this award-winning image of the reflection nebula…
AI Framework Predicts Better Patient Health Care and Reduces Cost
Researchers at Indiana University have shown that an artificial intelligence framework that employs sequential decision-making could reduce healthcare costs by over 50 percent while also…
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Drills and Collects First Martian Bedrock Sample
New images show that NASA’s Curiosity rover has successfully drilled and collected a rock powder sample from the Martian bedrock to be analyzed. NASA’s Curiosity…
Synthetic Biology Circuits Perform Logic Functions and Remember the Results
Researchers at MIT have developed new synthetic biology circuits that combine memory and logic. MIT engineers have created genetic circuits in bacterial cells that not…
Nanocapsules Battle Cancer without Harming Healthy Cells
Scientists at UCLA have developed nanocapsules that battle cancer cells without harming healthy cells, providing researchers with a potentially new way to treat cancer. A…
Earth-like Planets May Have Older and More Evolved Life
Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believe that six percent of red dwarf stars have habitable, Earth-sized planets. Since red dwarfs live much longer…
WISE Views the Orion Nebula
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) captured a new view of the Orion nebula and the tangle of clouds and stars that lie in Orion’s…
Unique Features of Spiral Galaxy Messier 106
Located about 20 million light-years away, spiral galaxy M 106 has several unique features: instead of two spiral arms, it appears to have four and…
Q & A and Video Animations from NASA on Asteroid 2012 DA14 and Its Near Earth Approach
As a follow-up to yesterday’s information on Asteroid 2012 DA14 and its record close approach to Earth that will occur on February 15, NASA has…
Scientists Discover a New Kind of Extinct Flying Reptile
Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized bones of a 68 million year old flying reptile, Eurazhdarcho langendorfensis, in the Transylvanian Basin of Romania. A new kind…
Researchers Find a New Target to Treat a Wide Spectrum of Cancers
By using a computational method to capture the various shapes of the p53 protein, a protein that is implicated in nearly 40 percent of diagnosed…
Biologists Develop Bioelectric Signals That Can Detect Early Cancer
A newly published study details how researchers at Tufts University discovered a bioelectric signal that can identify cells that are likely to develop into tumors….
Storm Spawns the Largest Tropospheric Vortex Ever Seen on Saturn
Using data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, scientists analyzed a massive storm on Saturn. The storm was the longest-lasting ever recorded on Saturn and it spawned…
Astronomers Discover a New Method to Measure Supermassive Black Holes
In a newly published study, an international team of scientists detail the discovery of a new way to measure the mass of supermassive black holes,…
The Abell 901/902 Supercluster of Galaxies
This ESO picture of the week shows the region around the Abell 901/902 supercluster of galaxies. It was created from images forming part of the…
Researchers Identify Mutations Responsible for USC Tumors
Scientists from Yale University have clearly identified the mutations that are responsible for uterine serous carcinoma (USC) tumors, a finding that could lead to new…
New Herschel Images of the Andromeda Galaxy
Two new images from the Herschel Space Observatory highlight the ring-like swirls of dust that fill the Andromeda galaxy. The new eye-catching views from the…