ByIdan Ginsburg, Georgia State UniversityAugust 21, 2022 VFTS 243 is a binary system of a large, hot blue star and a black hole orbiting each other, as seen in this animation. Credit: ESO/L.Calçada … [+7758 chars]
ByIdan Ginsburg, Georgia State UniversityAugust 21, 2022 VFTS 243 is a binary system of a large, hot blue star and a black hole orbiting each other, as seen in this animation. Credit: ESO/L.Calçada … [+7758 chars]
Even in drought-stricken California, not all areas are equally vulnerable to wildfires. A recent study that used data from NASA's ECOSTRESS mission discovered relationships between wildfire intensity… [+4706 chars]
ByUniversity of MichiganAugust 21, 2022 Synonymous mutations have long been thought to have relatively no impact. A new study finds that most silent mutations are harmful rather than neutral. Mars… [+6134 chars]
Scientists are planning a "CAT scan" of a British Columbia volcano to help harness the underground heat that turns rock into magma for renewable energy. "Canadians are often surprised to know there… [+3458 chars]
A team of astronomers using the International Gemini Observatory (IGO) has made a significant breakthrough by obtaining the sharpest image of the most massive star discovered to date. Lying 1,60,000 … [+2269 chars]
SpaceX launched another big batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Aug. 19 and aced a rocket landing at sea.A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 53 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cap… [+1274 chars]
I started doing a huge amount of walking: beach walks on the North Island; forest and mountain walks on the South; then hiking through Arthurs Pass near Christchurch and around Queenstown. It was mag… [+1571 chars]
ByIdan Ginsburg, Georgia State UniversityAugust 21, 2022 VFTS 243 is a binary system of a large, hot blue star and a black hole orbiting each other, as seen in this animation. Credit: ESO/L.Calçada … [+7758 chars]
The earth is composed of three main layers: the crust, the mantle, and the core. Lasers pave the path for finding ancient crust. Curtin University researchers have discovered evidence of an approxi… [+2785 chars]
8,000 years ago, what we now call the North Sea was an almost endless series of calm and relatively fertile plains. That land connected the British Isles with present-day Denmark, the Netherlands, an… [+2373 chars]
Materials science has long taken the lead in space exploration research, and it seems to have been getting even more attention than usual lately. That is especially true for building materials. NASA … [+3882 chars]
