Encyclopedia Britannica defines sound as a "mechanical disturbance from a state of equilibrium that propagates through an elastic material medium." Basically, what we think of as sound is caused by w… [+930 chars]
The MeerKAT telescope in South Africa has detected a strong radio-wave laser known as a “megamaser.” The discovery is the farthest megamaser of its sort yet discovered, located around five billion li… [+2222 chars]
A new study by scientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT provides the most comprehensive and rigorous evidence yet that the mammalian brain stores a single memory across a wi… [+7889 chars]
The supernova explosion that triggered the birth of the solar system, by exciting a cloud of gas and dust, has been recreated in a lab using a laser and foam ball. Molecular clouds, like the one tha… [+7573 chars]
The 2012 Lyrid meteor shower as captured by astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station. NASA The first quarter of each year is a relatively quiet period for meteor showers, but th… [+2101 chars]
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover mission has cost more than $2 billion so far, so it would be a disaster if it hit an insurmountable obstacle and became stuck in the red planet's harsh terrain. So how… [+2758 chars]
Foresail-1, the first satellite from the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research of Sustainable Space, is ready for space. With the help of long-term funding from the Academy of Finland, we have cr… [+4044 chars]
April's full moon, or Pink Moon — named for the brilliant-pink flowers blooming in early spring — will bathe the sky in bright moonlight this Saturday (April 16). The Pink Moon will be fully illumin… [+4082 chars]
The MeerKAT telescope in South Africa has detected a strong radio-wave laser known as a “megamaser.” The discovery is the farthest megamaser of its sort yet discovered, located around five billion li… [+2222 chars]
A spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies fueled an unusual triangular-shaped star-birthing frenzy. The interacting galaxy captured in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope is collec… [+984 chars]
Sending astronauts back to the moon will have considerable benefits both scientifically and economically, NASA officials stressed. That message came through during a discussion of NASA's Artemis pro… [+6968 chars]
Teleportation may be a concept usually reserved for science fiction, but researchers have demonstrated that it can be used to avoid loss in communication channels on the quantum level. The team, inc… [+3422 chars]
