When Donald York was a student beginning his career in astronomy in the 1960s, it was very difficult to get enough time on a telescope to make observations. We were suffering from a deficit of data,… [+4830 chars]
In an article recently published in the journal Applied Surface Science, the researchers synthesized green fluorescent carbon dots (G-CDs) from 3,5-diaminobenzoic acid and citric acid. The as-prepare… [+6107 chars]
Researchers from the Institute of Laser Physics at Universität Hamburg have succeeded for the first time in realizing a time crystal that spontaneously breaks continuous time translation symmetry. Th… [+2263 chars]
The delay in the planned launch of NASA's Psyche mission to visit what is thought to be the exposed core of a protoplanet is upsetting plans for two small tag-along satellites to visit other asteroid… [+2058 chars]
After a quiet spell, we are going to witness the largest asteroid flyby of the month of June. According to NASA, a 270-feet wide asteroid will be making its closest approach to the Earth tomorrow, Ju… [+2275 chars]
Friends, countrymen, space nerds — lend me your ears! For we come not to retweet space news, but to enjoy it. This week we’ll hear about a surprise collision at the James Webb Space Telescope. We’ll … [+7997 chars]
NASA recently shared an image of a pair of colliding galaxy clusters located about 2.8 billion light-years from Earth. Known as Abell 2146, it is the result of a collision and merger between two gala… [+2057 chars]
Space industryThe FTs Peggy Hollinger and Clive Cookson talk to the European Space Agencys Samantha Cristoforetti about life on the International Space Station, the fallout from the Russian war on ea… [+80 chars]
Jupiter is composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium. The amounts of each closely conform to the theoretical quantities in the primordial solar nebula. But it also contains other heavier elemen… [+6354 chars]
Canatu and the European Space Agency (ESA) have signed a contract to develop an optical blocking filter using a unique carbon nanotube (CNT)-based support structure and investigate its applicability … [+1737 chars]
Get the most fascinating science news stories of the week in your inbox every Friday. Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences The outer skin of our planetthe critical zonestretches … [+2052 chars]
Identifying sex-linked regions in schistosomes and nematodes To systematically identify the sex-linked regions in each of these two deeply diverged phyla, we compiled sexual system information as we… [+45815 chars]
