A simplified model suggests that flipping a burger four times is the most efficient route to fully cooked perfection. When it comes to burgers, Jean-Luc Thiffeault likes his rare. The mathematician … [+4112 chars]
One method to study our Galactic origins is to study the earliest building blocks of the Milky Way by searching for and analyzing galaxies forming in the early Universe. NASA’s JWST is the ideal mach… [+3310 chars]
Today's VIS image shows a section of Cerberus Fossae. Located southeast of the Elysium Planitia volcanic complex, the linear graben near the top of the image was created by tectonic forces related to… [+1129 chars]
In research that could broadly benefit science, medicine and engineering, a new kind of ultrasensitive optical sensing instrument has been developed by a doctoral student at The University of Alabama… [+4810 chars]
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to take this 360-degree panorama of at the "Avanavero" drill site. The panorama is made up of 127 individual images taken on June 20, 202… [+1112 chars]
Ultrafast pulses from X-ray lasers reveal how atoms move at timescales of a femtosecond. That's a quadrillionth of a second. However, measuring the properties of the pulses themselves is challenging.… [+3050 chars]
Comment on this story The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haapai eruption lasted less than a day, but it unleashed the most water vapor into the atmosphere by a volcano on record.Researchers say the blast may tem… [+4836 chars]
This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. Oh, Mars, you're such a goof. You've got a "happy face" crater and an eyeball crater. But you weren't content to rest on … [+1555 chars]
Alongside cultural heavyweights such as Disney's "Encanto" and Warner Brothers' "The Batman," a short film created at Goddard shares the screen next week at a festival honoring standout works of comp… [+4655 chars]
An image of the unnamed spaghetti worm from the newly released MBARI video. (Image credit: 2012 MBARI) (opens in new tab)A bizarre seafloor creature covered with luminous orange, spaghetti-like tent… [+2744 chars]
Researchers from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and their collaborators have reported a solar energetic particle (SEP) event observed by the Mars Energ… [+4637 chars]
Sternal morphology in Synapsida The earliest-diverging synapsids, the paraphyletic pelycosaurs, do not preserve an ossified sternum in any known taxa23. However, a large, ossified interclavicle is a… [+19714 chars]
