The Sun is key to our survival but it can also wreak havoc on the technology we all depend on so heavily in modern times. One of the biggest threats are solar flares, which are huge explosions in th… [+4068 chars]
ByEva Frederick, MIT Whitehead InstituteJune 11, 2022 Data for a new gene-function map are available for other scientists to use. Its a big resource in the way the human genome is a big resource, in… [+11672 chars]
The connecting of two "time crystals" in a superfluid of helium-3 barely one-ten-thousandth of a degree above absolute zero could be a huge step toward a new kind of quantum computer. Time crystals … [+5050 chars]
Enlarge/ The genetic code. Note that a lot of the amino acids (the outer layer, in grey) are encoded by several sets of three-base codes that share the first two letters. 2 with 2 posters participat… [+4251 chars]
ByBailey Sykes, Monash UniversityJune 11, 2022 An artists impression of two black holes about to collide and merge. Gravitational waves are ripples in the curvature of spacetime caused by accelerat… [+5932 chars]
Autocorrelation for spontaneous radiation Prior to the spontaneous radiation from the tandem undulator, we first consider the spontaneous radiation from a single undulator. Figure 1a shows the inter… [+13766 chars]
By Ashleigh Swan & Tom GerkenBBC Click Samantha Cristoforetti holds the record for longest uninterrupted spaceflight by a European astronaut - but you may know her for another bit of history. … [+4700 chars]
Autocorrelation for spontaneous radiation Prior to the spontaneous radiation from the tandem undulator, we first consider the spontaneous radiation from a single undulator. Figure 1a shows the inter… [+13766 chars]
James Webb Space Telescope mission observing universe. This image elements furnished by NASA ... [+] https://www.nasa.gov/johnson/HWHAP/the-james-webb-space-telescope getty On Tuesday, July 12, 202… [+5641 chars]
NASAs James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been hit by a micrometeoroid, which has damaged one of ... [+] the 18 beryllium-gold segments that makes up its main 6.5-meter mirror. getty NASAs James… [+3021 chars]
Galactic collisions are among the most spectacular events in the cosmos. Collisions between galaxies are commonplace among galaxies that coexist in the same cluster. The gravitational attraction betw… [+3191 chars]
Photo credit: Pogrebnoj-Alexandroff, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons. Have you ever heard of the lateral line? No, its not a football play. Its a sense organ shared by most fish, from sharks to… [+7478 chars]
