Rougher faults may generate more earthquake aftershocks

When an earthquake hits, it is rarely an isolated event. Foreshocks precede quakes, and aftershocks follow…

How are dinosaur tissues preserved in deep time?

Ever since Mary Schweitzer found soft, stretchy tissue in a T. rex fossil in 2004, scientists…

Opinion: Generational and cultural change is stimulating environmental sustainability

We continue to live in a world of rapid technological change that constantly engenders economic and…

Researchers pull back the quantum curtain on 'Weyl fermions'

Northeastern researchers have made what they describe as a groundbreaking discovery in the field of quantum…

Zeroing in on a fundamental property of the proton's internal dynamics

Inside the proton are elementary particles called quarks. Quarks and protons have an intrinsic angular momentum…

Towards a sustainable superconductor technology with magnesium diboride super magnets

Magnesium diboride (MgB2) is a low-cost, non-toxic superconductor used in field magnets, electric motors, and generators.…

Lithography-free photonic chip offers speed and accuracy for artificial intelligence

Photonic chips have revolutionized data-heavy technologies. On their own or in concert with traditional electronic circuits,…

Astronaut Kjell Lindgren

“I think that getting to be a crewmember on the International Space Station, and getting to…

Webb Finds Water Vapor, But From a Rocky Planet or Its Star?

Astronomers used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to study a rocky exoplanet known as GJ 486…

On the Edge: NASA’s Last S-MODE Mission Studies the Ocean’s Surface

NASA has taken to the seas and skies to study the unique environment at the ocean’s…