Abstract: This video supplement contains a set of videos created during the approximately 10-year-long course of…
Month: May 2017
Female dragonflies found to fake death to avoid male advances
(Phys.org)—A biologist with the University of Zurich has discovered a species of dragonfly whose females play…
Eight nations ‘now equipped to terminate civilization’
Eight nations now have sufficient weapons of mass destruction to end civilization worldwide in a nuclear…
Development and Testing of Harpoon-Based Approaches for Collecting Comet Samples
Abstract: Comets, having bright tails visible to the unassisted human eye, are considered to have been…
Identification of the Hard X-Ray Source Dominating the E > 25 keV Emission of the Nearby Galaxy M31
Abstract: We report the identification of a bright hard X-ray source dominating the M31 bulge above…
Purifying cells to treat disease
Various cell therapies involve injecting a specific cell type into a patient. These include, for example,…
Night sky guide for May 2017
May 2017 brings us Eta Aquarids, an above average meteor shower capable of producing up to…
The key to private and efficient data storage
Cloud storage services, like Dropbox and Gmail, may soon be able to better manage your content,…
Uncertainties in Cloud Phase and Optical Thickness Retrievals from the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC)
Abstract: This paper presents an investigation of the expected uncertainties of a single channel cloud optical…
The 2014 X-Ray Minimum of Eta Carinae as Seen by Swift
Abstract: We report on Swift X-ray Telescope observations of Eta Carinae ( Car), an extremely massive,…