Enlarge/ The dust in this galaxy, shaded red, required the MIRI instrument to resolve. 29 with 18 posters participating There is more than one reason why the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on board… [+3846 chars]
The Artemis 1 mission is all set to launch on 29 August. US space agency Nasa confirmed recently the launch of its water-scouting cube satellite (CubeSat) Lunar IceCub, among a host of other miniatur… [+2478 chars]
The device is part of the materials being developed to withstand the highly-erosive individual oxygen atoms prevailing at the top of the atmosphere, the result of standard oxygen molecules of the sam… [+998 chars]
The number and quality of oocytes define ovarian reserve. It refers to the reproductive potential left within a womans two ovaries based on the number and quality of eggs. Despite its fundamental imp… [+2788 chars]
The ultrafast quantum computer, which was used by the research team to get the two-qubit gate, used ultrafast lasers to manipulate cold atoms. This computer is also expected to be a completely new qu… [+2571 chars]
Galileo's sketches of the Moon from Sidereus Nuncius, published in March 1610. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Public domain) Astronomer Galileo Galilei is famous for advocating the heliocentric model of… [+2257 chars]
Scientists have cracked an enduring mystery, discovering how sauropod dinosaurslike Brontosaurus and Diplodocussupported their gigantic bodies on land. A University of Queensland and Monash Universi… [+3792 chars]
The fate of the worlds biggest ice sheet rests in the hands of humanity, a new analysis has shown. If global heating is limited to 2 degrees, the vast East Antarctic ice sheet should remain stable, b… [+4299 chars]
Scientists have cracked an enduring mystery, discovering how sauropod dinosaurslike Brontosaurus and Diplodocussupported their gigantic bodies on land. A University of Queensland and Monash Universi… [+3792 chars]
Smith had been trying to understand properties of solutions to equations called elliptic curves. In doing so, he worked out a specific part of the Cohen-Lenstra heuristics. Not only was it the first … [+5321 chars]
In 1989, a group of engineers first started working to design a space telescope that would change the way we see our universe. There was only one problem: much of the technology they would need didn'… [+5347 chars]
A "potentially hazardous" asteroid the size of a blue whale is set to zip past Earth on Friday (Aug. 12), according to NASA (opens in new tab). The asteroid , named 2015 FF, has an estimated diam… [+3562 chars]
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