University of Sydney scientists have used the geological record of the deep sea to discover that past global warming has sped up deep ocean circulation. This is one of the missing links for predictin… [+4122 chars]
Hubble has photographed a massive spiral galaxy that lies about 60 million light-years from Earth. Despite its size, it’s far from the largest celestial object known to astronomers. The photo was c… [+2376 chars]
Enlarge/ Astra's LV0009 takes off from Kodiak Island, Alaska, on March 15. 39 with 22 posters participating Welcome to Edition 4.36 of the Rocket Report! As I took last week off for Spring Break, t… [+7755 chars]
WASHINGTON D.C.: NASA scientists have announced that they have identified more than 5,000 planets existing beyond Earth's solar system, adding that the Kepler Space Telescope, launched in 2009 and re… [+1920 chars]
A tiny problem Scientists can grow nanocrystals out of many different materials: metals, semiconductors, and magnets will each yield different properties. But the trouble was that whenever they trie… [+3333 chars]
Starting in April, the northern hemisphere will be treated to an alignment of up to five planets and the moon, all visible together. Planetary alignments, especially at this scale, aren’t common and … [+5046 chars]
Experimental design. a Computational framework to select regions and perturbation sites. b Heatmap of motif instances in the assayed regions (left); distribution of the number of motifs perturbed in … [+5375 chars]
Andreas Mogensen during his 10-day Iriss mission to the ISS. Credit: ESA / NASA Edinburgh, 25 March 2022. – Danish ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen has been assigned a long-duration mission to the ISS… [+826 chars]