Chilean Astronomer Bárbara Rojas-Ayala at the Paranal Observatory/ESO. Bárbara Rojas-Ayala Chilean researcher Bárbara Rojas-Ayala found a way to measure the "metallicity" of M dwarf (red dwarf) st… [+4205 chars]
NASA is counting clouds on Mars and wants you to join them. Yes, the American space agency has undertaken a seemingly silly but extremely important project where it will be analysing the data collect… [+2151 chars]
In the science fiction film Pitch Black (now streaming on Peacock!), interplanetary travelers encounter a world inhabited by creatures who spend their entire lives in the dark. While there are certai… [+3628 chars]
Get ready for space hydroponics. Interstellar Salad Earthly space travelers have been trying to perfect orbital botany for a while now. Stable, sustainable off world agricultural practices are need… [+1754 chars]
The age of the noctilucent cloud is upon us. Night-shining clouds are historically rare, beautiful formations of shimmering ice crystals hanging in the upper atmosphere that were only visible in the … [+3402 chars]
If you’ve been meaning to update your resumé, there’s an opportunity for you to add “worked on a NASA project.” Or even more intriguingly, “Jovian Vortex Hunter.” That’s because NASA is looking for c… [+1830 chars]
To solve a long-standing puzzle about how long a neutron can "live" outside an atomic nucleus, physicists entertained a wild but testable theory positing the existence of a right-handed version of ou… [+7546 chars]
Astronomers have observed in a relatively nearby galaxy a star that not only survived what ordinarily should have been certain death - a stellar explosion called a supernova - but emerged from it bri… [+3233 chars]
Five-hundred million years ago, it was relatively safe to go back in the water. That's because creatures of the deep had not yet evolved jaws. In a new pair of studies in eLife and Development, scien… [+3640 chars]
Design and formation of thermoresponsive gating particles (PNIPAM@RS100) A schematic representation of the thermoresponsive PNIPAM gating system for controlled delivery is shown in Fig. 1. The porou… [+20271 chars]
Newswise — A team of Florida State University researchers has uncovered a way to use low-energy light to manipulate photopolymers or plastic films — a finding that has implications for a wide range o… [+2897 chars]
Get ready for space hydroponics. Interstellar Salad Earthly space travelers have been trying to perfect orbital botany for a while now. Stable, sustainable off world agricultural practices are need… [+1754 chars]