A Northwestern University astrophysics team is aiming for the starswell, a dead star, that is. On Aug. 21, the NASA-funded team will launch its "Micro-X" rocket from White Sands Missile Range in sou… [+3922 chars]
The heart of the Etruscan shrew, one of the worlds smallest mammals, beats incredibly fast up to 1,500 times per minute, or 25 times per second. The human heart, in comparison, is sluggish, beating o… [+9855 chars]
<li>Pudritz, R. E. & Norman, C. A. Centrifugally driven winds from contracting molecular disks. Astrophys. J.274, 677697 (1983). ADS Article Google Scholar </li><li>Blandford, R. D. &… [+7609 chars]
Summary: Consciousness can not simply be reduced to neural activity alone, researchers say. A novel study reports the dynamics of consciousness may be understood by a newly developed conceptual and m… [+10281 chars]
Predictions of global atmospheric turbulence could help astronomers to better design and operate ground-based telescopes. This map show predictions from a model that can accurately forecast global tu… [+7915 chars]
by Gesine Steiner, Museum für Naturkunde - Leibniz-Institut für Evolutions- und Biodiversitätsforschung Scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, together with colleagues from the U.S. and Au… [+4552 chars]
In 2014, the first known meteor from outside of our Solar System crashed into the ocean near Papua New Guinea. It was one and a half feet wide, but broke up into smaller fragments. Scientists will at… [+2122 chars]
When big spiral galaxies collide, they don’t end up as one really big spiral. Instead, they create a humongous elliptical galaxy. That’s the fate awaiting the Andromeda Galaxy and our Milky Way. They… [+4297 chars]
"Whatever you learned the past two years is not going to apply in the next five years." Stormy Weather Things are about to get stormy with our Sun and it could spell trouble for satellite infrastru… [+1896 chars]
Ever since the dawn of humanity, the Moon has been the one subject which has fascinated generations all around the world. Since Galileo's first observations of the Moon in 1609, experts, researchers,… [+1736 chars]
Mars, now a dried-up desert, once ran with water, with the tracks of past streams and rivers still visible across the planet. A leading theory suggested that the water on Mars became part of the mine… [+5059 chars]
DGIST (President Kuk Yang) announced that a research team led by Professor Seo Dae-ha of the Department of Physics and Chemistry developed a dark field super-resolution microscope with excellent spat… [+2894 chars]
