Because of its outstanding transparency as well as its stability in contact with heat or chemicals, glass is relevant for many high-tech applications. However, conventional processes for shaping glas… [+4008 chars]
Jonathan AmosScience correspondent@BBCAmoson Twitter Image caption, Uranus, photographed here by the Hubble Space Telescope, has at least 13 rings and numerous moons The US space agency Nasa should… [+5705 chars]
Spacecraft materials don’t just need to have the right characteristics to fly — they have to endure high levels of heat, friction, and stress. In order to overcome these challenges, strong and long-l… [+3928 chars]
Rydberg polaritons switch continually from light to matter and back again. In Rydberg polaritons, light and matter are like two sides of a coin, and the matter side is what makes polaritons interact … [+1585 chars]
According to the US Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC), a powerful solar flare on the surface of the Sun caused radio blackouts in Asia and Australia. On Sunday, April 17, a solar flare peaked an… [+2172 chars]
A low-res version of the high resolution image of the Sun from Solar Orbiter. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI team; Data processing: E. Kraaikamp (ROB) A few weeks ago I wrote about a ground-break… [+7341 chars]
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) satellite orbiting Mars has captured another piece of NASA equipment on the surface of the Red Planet. An image captured by the MRO's High Resolution Imaging… [+975 chars]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain It’s been 50 years since humans first walked on the moon. Since then, astronauts have primarily explored low Earth orbit. Now that NASA is preparing to return to th… [+6108 chars]
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope recently snapped an image of a barred spiral galaxy called M91. Also known as NGC 4548 or Messier 91, the galaxy is located approximately 55 million light-years from E… [+804 chars]
Over a 17-year period, an international team of astronomers monitored Neptunes atmospheric temperatures. They discovered that Neptunes global temperatures dropped unexpectedly, followed by a dramatic… [+8068 chars]
The planets in our solar system are all unique in their way. In terms of temperature, no two planets have the same one since it is the result of various processes. Generally, a planets temperature is… [+7459 chars]
Experimental studies have revealed that bacteria generate molecular noise. A team of researchers from TU Delft managed to capture a single bacterium’s low-level noise using graphene. While observing… [+2602 chars]
