WISE Discovers Mystery Dust Around an Unusual Class of Interacting Binary Stars
Astronomers discovered dust around an unusual class of interacting binary stars, a highly magnetic white dwarf star that is Earth-sized but weighs about 60 percent…
Astronomers discovered dust around an unusual class of interacting binary stars, a highly magnetic white dwarf star that is Earth-sized but weighs about 60 percent…
Researchers in California have developed a synthetic version of skin that’s flexible, electrically conductive, and self-healing. The scientists published their findings in the journal Nature…
Using the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope and ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers discovered CFBDSIR2149, a large free-floating object near the AB Doradus Moving Group. Astronomers using ESO’s…
Scientists have been able to successfully cloak an object, rendering a centimeter-scale cylinder invisible to microwaves. Many different invisibility cloaks have been demonstrated, but all…
Using a combination of optical, infrared, and mid-infrared data, a team of astronomers revealed that the star cluster known as NGC 1980 is a distinct…
The zombie-ant fungus is part of the Ophiocordyceps genus, and its strange way of infecting worker ants’ heads and controlling them to distribute more spores…
An international team of scientists is measuring the role of dark energy in the evolution of the universe by using a new mapping technique that…
The Maya civilization, which occupied much of modern-day Mexico and Central America, collapsed rapidly between 800 and 1000 AD. This collapse has often puzzled archaeologists….
This new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows galaxy NGC 5010, which is located about 140 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo…
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers discovered that Fleming 1 is likely to have two white dwarfs at its center, circling each…
An international team of astronomers has discovered a new Earth-like planet, known as HD 40307g, that may be capable of supporting life and is located…
The extinct genus Smilodon encompasses three species, and they are part of North American’s vanished megafauna. While the carnivore broadly resembles other Felidae, its fangs…
The above composite image of star cluster Cygnus OB2, which is located about 5,000 light-years from Earth, contains X-rays from Chandra, infrared data from Spitzer,…
A photon can act as a particle one moment, following a well-defined path like a tiny projectile, and a wave the next, overlapping with its…
In a new study, an international team of scientists established that the rate of star formation in the Universe is now only 1/30th of what…
New cell cultures from two species of blind mole rats, Spalax judaei and Spalax golani, behave in ways that render them impervious to the growth…
A Dutch company, uniQure, states that it will start selling the first human gene therapy to be approved in the West by mid-2013. They expect…
Astronomers have discovered a pair of superluminous supernovae, which are more than 10 billion years old. The Universe was only 3.75 billion years old back…