One of the James Webb Space Telescope’s primary mirror segments was struck by a micrometeoroid and while it has been damaged, NASA says it’s not cause for alarm and the telescope is still on schedule… [+3349 chars]
The designs and spectral response of periodic and quasi-periodic phononic crystal structures towards high sensitivity gas sensor As demonstrated in Fig. 2af, we introduced the periodic and quasi-per… [+23831 chars]
Later this month, skywatchers in Africa can watch a star blink out of sight thanks to a quirk of celestial arrangements. The European Space Agency (ESA) mission Gaia , which launched in 2013, has b… [+6393 chars]
A research team from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has recently revealed that helium exposure could inhibit the penetration of hydrogen iso… [+2533 chars]
A new report from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) reveals how climate change is significantly impacting Antarctica's ice sheets, climate and ecosystems, with far-reaching global… [+4030 chars]
Jun 13 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Trinity College Dublin researchers have created luminescent, self-healing gels with a variety of potential applications ranging from counterfeiting bank notes to ne… [+5306 chars]
By analyzing the data from ESA's XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers from the Astronomical Observatory of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, and elsewhere, have investigated X-ray intraday … [+3884 chars]
Credit: Ola Jakup Joensen, Niels Bohr Institute Benjamin Mottelson was a US-born physicist who specialized in theoretical work on the structure of the atomic nucleus. During the 1950s, in close coll… [+6020 chars]
Two giant galaxy clusters crashing into each other triggered enormous shock waves stretching 1.6 million light-years through space. The findings, revealed by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory , are … [+4834 chars]
As summer nears, thoughts of fresh berries for strawberry shortcake are usually in order, but June is also blessed with what Native American cultures have nicknamed the Full Strawberry Moon, and this… [+3083 chars]