Astronomers have witnessed a rare and important life event in the evolution of binary star couplings for the first time. The team discovered a tight binary star surrounded by an expanding shell of … [+3416 chars]
Radio waves from space flow through our atmosphere every day, but the fast, steady and repeated bursts that were detected in 2019 and recently released to the public are unusual and mysterious. Kiy… [+830 chars]
Space junk from an old SpaceX mission may have landed in rural Australia. A chunk of charred material reportedly left over from the reentry of a SpaceX spacecraft was found in the middle of a sheep … [+4788 chars]
An astrophotographer has taken a 107-hour long exposure of the Helix planetary nebula known as the Eye of God. Officially dubbed NGC 7293, the nebula is a nearby cloud of gas and dust located in the … [+2296 chars]
Guess who came riding along with the passage of $52 billion in incentives to manufacture semiconductors? Congress came in like a cowboy riding a rocket (think Dr. Strangelove), waving their new bill … [+3506 chars]
Helium ion beam (HIB) technology plays an important role in the extreme fields of nanofabrication. Due to high resolution and sensitivity, HIB nanofabrication technology is widely used to pattern nan… [+7578 chars]
Feature Remember Skylab? How about SMEAT? Fifty years ago, a trio of US astronauts took part in 56-day simulation of a Skylab mission that would prove critical to the success of the US's first crewed… [+4489 chars]
,Holes in sea ice provide the perfect hunting ground for polar bears looking to catch their main food sourceseals. So when rising temperatures cause sea ice to melt, polar bears' existence is threate… [+5218 chars]
Using an innovative microscopy method, scientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT observed how newborn neurons struggle to reach their proper places in advanced human brain ti… [+6321 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope, right from its debut, detected signs of water on an exoplanet located roughly 1,324 light years away from Earth. Named WASP-17b, this planet is a gas giant that orbits… [+2590 chars]
NASA has completed the system requirements review for its Mars Sample Return Program, which is nearing completion of the conceptual design phase. During this phase, the program team evaluated and ref… [+4166 chars]
Overview of birth-death model and main results. A) Diagram of the two-dimensional birth-death process describing the dynamics of a bacterial population consisting of public good producers and cheater… [+4996 chars]
