In April, a team of planetary scientists spread across the U.S. authored a report as part of the Planetary Science Decadal Survey, placing scientific pressure on NASA to build and loft a probe capabl… [+5100 chars]
Look up! The Full Strawberry Moon of June 14 may appear ever-so-slightly bigger and brighter than usual when it rises this month, making it a "supermoon" by most definitions. Depending on which bree… [+3467 chars]
Hello folks, and welcome to your Friday briefing on space news great and small. Mercifully, it’s been quiet this week. We’ve got the usual slate of NASA updates, but this week is special. NASA has fi… [+5945 chars]
Rice University engineers who mimic atom-scale processes to make them big enough to see have modeled how shear influences grain boundaries in polycrystalline materials. That the boundaries can chang… [+4091 chars]
Superconductors are materials with no electrical resistance whatsoever, commonly requiring extremely low temperatures. They are used in a wide range of domains, from medical applications to a central… [+2768 chars]
Since he was young, Chih-Wei Joshua Liu 22 always knew he wanted to be a physician-scientist, pursuing research at the intersection of basic science and medicine. Growing up, I wanted to do work th… [+7673 chars]
The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT) installed at Devasthal peak in Nainital, Uttarakhand has seen first light. The telescope is located at an altitude of 2,450 metres, and uses a rotatin… [+2913 chars]
Newswise — Aqueous droplet formation by liquid-liquid phase separation (or coacervation) in macromolecules is a hot topic in life sciences research. Of these various macromolecules that form droplets… [+3214 chars]
Researchers using an innovative astrodynamics algorithm have uncovered over 100 asteroids that had gone undetected in archived images of the sky. Asteroids are rocky objects left over from the fo… [+2867 chars]
Let's be clear - black holes are monstrously powerful. They can swallow and decimate large cosmic entities, sending them to the uncharted darkness on the other side. Now, scientists have found pilot … [+2095 chars]
Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient burial of a woman lying on a bronze bed near the city of Kozani in northern Greece. It dates to the first century B.C. Depictions of mermaids decorate the … [+2404 chars]
For years, scientists have tried to understand the structure of the Earth. One of these scientists is University of Twente geophysicist Dr. Juan Carlos Afonso (Faculty of ITC). He has recently develo… [+3022 chars]
