Jun 10 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Due to their distinctive characteristics of high peak power, short pulse length, and broad spectral coverage, ultrafast laser technologies provide novel options for… [+2913 chars]
WASHINGTON NASA will commission a small independent study of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), a move the agency says is part of its desire to support risky research that has the potential for hig… [+4120 chars]
Artist’s impression of a commercial lander on the moon. Credit: NASA Edinburgh, 10 June, 2022. – NASA has selected two science instrument suites during the second selection through the agencys Paylo… [+1168 chars]
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]
NASA's Perseverance rover has picked up a rocky hitchhiker on Mars. The rover has collected a "pet rock" tucked inside its left front wheel that has been riding along with Perseverance since early … [+2867 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]
The analyzed areas: visual system (purple line), auditory (orange) and motor area (dark grey), and the somatosensory area (green line). Credit: D. Zachlod, Julich Brain Atlas Obviously, the human br… [+3777 chars]
<li>Salamini, F., Özkan, H., Brandolini, A., Schäfer-Pregl, R. & Martin, W. Genetics and geography of wild cereal domestication in the near east. Nat. Rev. Genet.3, 429441 (2002). CAS PubMed … [+18547 chars]
Archaea are present in the gut microbiome throughout the animal kingdom We analysed samples from 250 species of animals (n=341 samples) ranging from invertebrates to mammals the majority of which, e… [+45208 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]
An algorithm that was originally developed to map the stars is also used to track whale sharks for the sake of conservation efforts. Ahead of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, astron… [+2424 chars]
The 24th Congress of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, also encompassing space information sciences, took place this week in Nice. Thales Alenia Space was one of the ev… [+6170 chars]
