Sky gazers have surprising treats this week, including one today! Two bus-sized asteroids will zip past the planet at speeds of 25,000 miles (40,000 km) an hour on consecutive days, Forbes has repo… [+2705 chars]
University of Chicago physicists have invented a "quantum flute" that, like the Pied Piper, can coerce particles of light to move together in a way that's never been seen before. Described in two st… [+3991 chars]
Unistellar, the company behind a series of consumer-focused telescope cameras, has updated its Nocturne iPhone app to allow it to identify constellations, galaxies, nebulae, and planets. Nocturne ha… [+2660 chars]
Though they are discrete particles, water molecules flow collectively as liquids, producing streams, waves, whirlpools, and other classic fluid phenomena. Not so with electricity. While an electric … [+6298 chars]
While working out of a hotel room in Italy, astronaut Thomas Reiter commanded a four-wheeled robot to pick up rocks from the surface of an active volcano on the Sicilian east coast, and he did so whi… [+3859 chars]
Strychninea complex monoterpene indole alkaloidwas isolated in 1818 from the seeds of Strychnos nux-vomica (poison nuts)5, which were used in traditional medicine in China and South Asia. Currently, … [+24263 chars]
Jul 6 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith A global team of astrophysicists has located the area in space that is shaped like a “Manatee,” a gigantic aquatic creature, from which strong, extremely energetic X… [+4816 chars]
Rebecca Rogers, systems engineer, left, takes dimension measurements of the CAPSTONE spacecraft in April 2022, at Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems, Inc., in Irvine, Calif. NASA said Tuesday, July 5, that… [+1634 chars]
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the Perimeter Institute recently set new constraints on dark photons, which a… [+5045 chars]
Jul 6 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith A new study of observed temperatures reveals that the Arctic seems to be warming up over four times faster compared to the rate of global warming. The trend has step… [+4532 chars]
If you want to lure a bunch of prehistoric frogs to a sticky end, the best way is the promise of amphibian hanky-panky. That's the conclusion paleontologists have arrived at after studying the remai… [+3207 chars]
The human genome is littered with "selfish genetic elements," which do not seem to benefit their hosts, but instead seek only to propagate themselves. Selfish genetic elements can wreak havoc by, fo… [+4232 chars]
