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]
From a zoomed out, distant view, star-forming cloud L483 appears normal. But when a Northwestern University-led team of astrophysicists zoomed in closer and closer, things became weirder and weirder.… [+4611 chars]
Paired jets of matter streaming away from supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies usually extend away in opposite directions along the black holes axis of spin as in the two bottom galaxy … [+4967 chars]
In this series of posts, we sit down with a few of the plenary speakers of the 240th AAS meeting to learn more about them and their research. You can see a full schedule of their talks here, and read… [+7123 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]
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]
WHAT DID THE 2012 EARLY CAREER AWARD ALLOW YOU TO DO? Newswise — Lasers are everywhere in our everyday lives. We use them in bar code readers at the supermarket, in telecommunications equipment, and… [+3225 chars]
The outer skin of our planetthe critical zonestretches from treetops to the lower limits of groundwater. In this layer, interactions between rock, soil, water, air, and living organisms shape Earth's… [+2277 chars]
