MIT scientists have created the first completely digitally manufactured plasma sensors for orbiting spacecraft. These plasma sensors, also known as retarding potential analyzers (RPAs), are used by s… [+6766 chars]
Data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has led scientists to conclude that the Moon hosts around 200 "pits" that offer stable and human-friendly temperatures. The pits "always hover around… [+2724 chars]
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What an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth looked like on July 25, 2022 at 07:16 UTC, as seen by NASA's ... [+] Solar Dynamics Observatory. NASA It seems almost unbelievable, but the Earth is now ecli… [+4335 chars]
The manipulation and use of gas in water have broad applications in energy utilization, chemical manufacturing, environmental protection, agricultural breeding, microfluidic chips, and health care. T… [+7929 chars]
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The chance of someone being killed by space junk falling from the sky may seem ridiculously tiny. After all, nobody has yet died from such an accident, though there have been instances of injury and … [+5585 chars]
Some massive stars collapse into ultra-dense, rapidly spinning neutron stars called pulsars, which are some of the more powerful and fascinating objects in the cosmos, just behind black holes. But so… [+2093 chars]
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Jul 27 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Excessive cooling events, defined as Heinrich Events, in the North Atlantic during the last glacial period are a perfect example of how local processes affect globa… [+5360 chars]
Physical scientists seem to find the phenomenon of chaos everywhere: in the orbits of planets, in weather systems, in a rivers swirling eddies. For nearly three decades, ecologists considered chaos i… [+7461 chars]
The jellyfish sighting app, MedusApp, recently incorporated artificial intelligence (AI) to automatically recognize different species of jellyfish. Until now, this app only required users to select t… [+4231 chars]
