Atmosphere of Super-Earth GJ1214b Possibly Includes Abundant Water Vapor
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers probed the atmosphere around the transiting super-Earth known as GJ1214b and concluded that unless the atmosphere has a thick…
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers probed the atmosphere around the transiting super-Earth known as GJ1214b and concluded that unless the atmosphere has a thick…
Using gravitational lensing, a team of scientists believed they have observed dark matter in Abell 520. The dark matter is not behaving as predicted and…
A computational epigenetics research group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken is using software programs to rummage through the genomes of cancer…
A team of researchers has detected all phases of thermonuclear burning in a neutron star located close to the center of the galaxy in the…
Researchers from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) developed a bio-inspired robotic fish to mimic the tail propulsion of a swimming fish and conducted…
By measuring how well blood samples flow through a microfluidic device, researchers at Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have…
Researchers continue to search for ways to filter out the CO2 generated by coal-burning power plants before it reaches the atmosphere, a process commonly known…
To better understand the underlying biology of induced magnetization, researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School…
Researchers at MIT and Florida State University found evidence that the missing piece in the model of world’s oceans circulation of heat, water and carbon…
It’s been reported that researchers in the Leo Kouwenhoven group, based out of the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, might have beaten several…
Researchers at MIT developed a MEMS device that enables 3-D sensing on a single chip by using a new design approach. Their new design method…
Researchers have developed a new delivery vehicle in which RNA is packed into microspheres so dense that they withstand degradation until they reach their destinations….
Astronomers launched a NASA-funded rocket into the aurora borealis, which are colloquially known as the northern lights. The 46-foot (14-meter) rocket, the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in…
The holy grail of getting into orbit has always been the ultimate development of space elevators, long, thin strands that could ferry passengers and cargo…
Engineers at UCLA have developed a cost-effective cell-phone attachment that can detect the presence of the bacterium E. coli in food and water. FINDINGS: Researchers…
Researchers at Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a region within group II chaperonins, which detects the presence of the ATP molecules…
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and MIT have designed a compact cell sorter that requires no additional parts or steps. Their cell-sorting microchip takes…
Back in September, the revolutionary claim that the OPERA collaboration had measured neutrinos traveling at faster-than-light speed is now in doubt, as two possible sources…