Welcome to Pocket Science: a glimpse at recent research from Husker scientists and engineers. For those who want to quickly learn the What, So what and Now what of Husker research. What? Highway dr… [+2305 chars]
Rapid bursts of radio waves that originate millions to billions of light-years away from Earth could be used as probes to investigate halos of difficult-to-see diffuse gas surrounding nearby galaxies… [+4088 chars]
For her work showing that restoring lost bacterial cues in the gut can stimulate development of insulin-producing cells, potentially protecting against the autoimmune destruction associated with Type… [+9357 chars]
Two sounding rockets are launching from Australia this month, carrying experiments designed to measure whether the ultraviolet light coming from the stars of the Alpha Centauri system could be harmfu… [+4852 chars]
NASA is considering sending tiny swimming robots to explore distant ocean worlds. Prof David Rothery examines the possibilities and the limitations of the idea. NASA recently announced $600,000 in f… [+5136 chars]
NASA reestablished contact Thursday with a satellite on its way to study the moons orbit, two days after losing contact with the spacecraft a critical project as the agency seeks to launch its first … [+2378 chars]
There's been a lot of trash-talking about the International Space Station (ISS) recently. Roughly 172 pounds (78 kilograms) of garbage was ejected in a specialized trash bag from the station's comme… [+2610 chars]
In 2015, it was found that the strongest known biologically occurring material, was possessed by limpets, a marine mollusk that has a shallow conical shell, often found attached to rocks. These smal… [+3989 chars]
UC Santa Barbara Professor Ben Mazin is developing precision optical sensors for telescopes and observatories. In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, he and his team improved the spectra re… [+5955 chars]
Over the last few years, as we have been able to peer back deeper and deeper into the early Universe, astronomers have been discovering something extremely puzzling. Before the Universe was a billio… [+4233 chars]
For the past six months, Scott Friedman and a team of roughly 160 scientists and engineers have been working through one of the most daunting to-do lists in all of science. Nearly every day, they dro… [+12040 chars]
image: Illustration of an ultracool dwarf with a companion white dwarf. Ace citizen scientist Frank Kiwy used the Astro Data Lab science platform at NSFs NOIRLab to discover 34 new ultracool dwarf bi… [+7593 chars]
