Paper Title:CLEAR: Boosted Ly Transmission of the Intergalactic Medium in UV bright Galaxies Authors: Intae Jung, Casey Papovich, Steven L. Finkelstein, Raymond C. Simons, Vicente Estrada-Carpenter,… [+5476 chars]
An icy visitor from the distant Oort Cloud is still in view if you know exactly where to look for it. The comet is C/2017 K2 PanSTARRS. Its in the name: the comet was discovered five years ago in 2… [+4167 chars]
Ask astronomers about dark matter and one of the things they talk about is that this invisible, mysterious “stuff” permeates the universe. In particular, it exists in halos surrounding most galaxies.… [+5122 chars]
Secreted proteins mediate essential physiological processes. Understanding the spatial and temporal dynamics of protein secretion at a single-cell level is essential to understanding numerous biologi… [+3077 chars]
We have a pretty good idea of what lurks within our Solar System. We know there isnt a Mars-sized planet orbiting between Jupiter and Saturn nor a brown dwarf nemesis heading our way. Anything larg… [+2800 chars]
The sun moves in such a predictable way across the sky that you might never suspect that its relationship with Earth is changing all the time. In fact, the average distance between Earth and the sun … [+7833 chars]
Carbon dioxide is the main greenhouse gas warming Earth and is emitted in large quantities in the flue gas from industrial and power plants. Berkeley scientists have created a cheap, easy, and energ… [+2632 chars]
Earth is surrounded by some celestial neighbours in the soar system and then there are the nasty ones that come calling, threatening to destroy everything in their paths! These are known as Near-Eart… [+2040 chars]
Bicyclic Carbon FixationNREL scientists have designed a pathway for speeding up CO2 fermentation in some species of bacteria. The resulting moleculeacetyl-CoA, with its two unique carbon handles (C2)… [+5124 chars]
Earth escaped a giant asteroid by a wafer thin margin! This giant asteroid, known as Asteroid 2022 OE2 was recently spotted by NASA for the first time and within a few days, it made its closest appro… [+1980 chars]
Imagine human beings have this tiny little band where you and I can tune in, and we find that that is less than a millionth of reality, Buckminster Fuller once said. Just think of it. This is reality… [+12690 chars]
On Mars, there's a unique kind of "tumbleweed" rolling across the Martian plains. These tumbleweeds aren't plants - they are pieces of debris from the entry, descent, and landing (EDL) hardware from… [+3424 chars]