A Los Angeles math teacher gets students engaged with connections to science and exploring the human side of math, such as how leaders inspire change in their communities. Katherine Risbrough has be… [+7363 chars]
ByAssociation of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)May 31, 2022 NASAs Voyager 2 spacecraft captured these views of Uranus (on the left) and Neptune (on the right) during its flybys of the… [+13653 chars]
Compared to traditional materials with circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) activity, covalent organic frameworks (COFs), a new kind of crystalline porous material, have high potential because of … [+2925 chars]
SpaceX has clearly come a long way in the last decade. Exactly 10 years ago on May 31, the companys Cargo Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, concluding Sp… [+2164 chars]
The liver has a unique ability to regenerate after damage. However, it was unknown whether this ability decreases as we age. International scientists led by Dr. Olaf Bergmann at the Center for Regene… [+5836 chars]
Introduction In the last decade, gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have been widely explored as tools with applications in the medical field. Several studies performed by our group and other researchers ha… [+51449 chars]
A composite image of the R Aquarii binary star captured by NASA's flying telescope SOFIA. (Image credit: NASA) NASA's flying telescope SOFIA has been watching a dance between two stars orbiting each… [+3608 chars]
A new artificial enzyme has shown it can chew through lignin, the tough polymer that helps woody plants hold their shape. Lignin also stores tremendous potential for renewable energy and materials.Re… [+5659 chars]
Dr. Nishikawa at Osaka Metropolitan University focused on the Kondo effect on minimal ferrimagnetism and attempted to elucidate it theoretically. As a result, they found that the Kondo effect occurre… [+3130 chars]
Terahertz technology could enable advanced scanners for security, medicine, and materials science. It could also enable much faster wireless communications devices than are currently possible. Scien… [+5915 chars]
In tension: the cosmic microwave background as seen by the Planck space telescope. It yields a value of the Hubble constant that is different from values measured in the nearby universe. (Courtesy: E… [+6357 chars]
In order to solidify humanity's long-term presence on Mars, humans would have to fuse with robots, an astronomer thinks. Lord Martin Rees, a British cosmologist, and the fifteenth Astronomer Royal re… [+2108 chars]
