Pilots can sometimes see gamma radiation glowing within thunderstorm clouds. Credit: Deposit Photos Thunderstorms create a lot of wind, rain, and lightning, but many people aren’t necessarily aware of another…
October 2, 2024 4 min read The Science of Melting Cheese Food science can explain why mozzarella melts like a dream while feta and ricotta don’t By Meghan Bartels Nopadol…
Experts say the volume of Switzerland’s glaciers shrank again this summer and compounded the negative impact of climate change after a devastating two-year run that depleted the ice by more…
Using data from the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected carbon dioxide (CO2) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) on the frozen surface of Pluto’s…
To shape NASA’s path of exploration forward, Dr. Gioia Rau unravels stars and worlds beyond our solar system. Name: Dr. Gioia Rau Title: Astrophysicist Organization: Exoplanets and Stellar Astrophysics Laboratory,…
An illustration showing the trajectory of ESA’s Juice spacecraft during its lunar-Earth gravity assist, featuring a high-resolution ENA image of the million-degree hot plasma halo encircling Earth captured by NASA’s…
Aerobat uses a combination or rigid and soft 3D-printed materials to mimic a bat’s malleable wings. Credit: Alyssa Stone/Northeastern University Bats are amongst the animal kingdom’s most unorthodox fliers. Unlike…
The new image of the Rosette Nebula was taken by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on NSF’s Víctor M. Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile,…
During the Mesozoic era, between 250 and 120 million years ago, an ancient seafloor sank deep into Earth in the East Pacific Rise, a tectonic plate boundary on the floor…
A photo of Montana Mountain King, the cloned Marco Polo argali sheep. Credit: Department of Justice A US District Court Judge sentenced Arthur “Jack” Schubarth–the Montana man who illegally bred…
Tim Winton’s new novel Juice is being compared to the post-apocalyptic Station Eleven and The Road Buena Vista Images/Getty Images We science fiction fans are going to have our work…
An exoplanet at least half the mass of Venus orbits Barnard’s star, the closest single star to the Sun, once every 3.15 days. An artist’s impression of Barnard b. Image…
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An artist’s impression showing Barnard b [2], a sub-Earth-mass planet that was discovered orbiting Barnard’s star. Its signal was detected with the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT),…
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 121, Issue 40, October 2024. Source : National Academy of Sciences
Fossilized remains found in Patagonia, Argentina back in 2009 represent a new genus and species of plant-eating dinosaur that belonged to a group called Rebbachisauridae. Campananeyen fragilissimus. Image credit: Fundación…
Media is invited to preview and interview NASA leadership ahead of the opening of the Earth Information Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History at 10 a.m. EDT,…
Three-body nuclear systems are key to many aspects of modern nuclear physics, such as understanding the equation of state of high-density nuclear matter and the composition of neutron star cores.…
The suit’s aesthetics are partially a nod to ancient Chinese deities. Credit: CCTV While the US remains on track to send humans back to the moon, China isn’t far behind.…
NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson will share details of her recent six-month mission aboard the International Space Station in a news conference at 11 a.m. EDT Friday, Oct. 4, at…