Happy 45th Birthday, AMSAT-OSCAR 7!

The world’s longest-lived satellite, AO-7, turned 45 years old this month. It was launched on November…

Astronomers investigate stellar content of the open cluster NGC 330

Using the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, astronomers have…

Illuminating the Gas Between Galaxies with Supercomputing

Galaxies contain millions of stars, and they grow by pulling in gas to make even more.…

Designer lens helps see the big picture

Microscopes have been at the center of many of the most important advances in biology for…

Historic climate change on Mars might be detectable

Historical instances of extreme climate change on Mars could be detected through the measurement of subsurface…

Estimating the environmental impact of Bitcoin mining

As an alternative to government-issued money, the cryptocurrency Bitcoin offers relative anonymity, no sales tax and…

Making tiny antennas for wearable electronics

When it comes to electronics, bigger usually isn’t better. This is especially true for a new…

Ancient komodo dragon-like animals had heads proportionally larger than dinosaurs

An international team of researchers has found evidence showing that the ancient meat-eating creature Vjushkovia triplicostata…

4-D imaging with liquid crystal microlenses

Most images captured by a camera lens are flat and two dimensional. Increasingly, 3-D imaging technologies…

Emissions from electricity generation lead to premature deaths for some racial groups

Air pollution doesn’t just come from cars on the road, generating electricity from fossil fuels also…