ISS Daily Summary Report – 9/09/2019

Microgravity Crystals: Over the weekend, the crew set up a microscope, then took images of the…

Lightning 'superbolts' form over oceans from November to February

Lightning superbolts — which unleash a thousand times more low-frequency energy than regular lightning bolts —…

Making and controlling crystals of light

Scientists have shown how light inside optical on-chip microresonators can be crystallized in a form of…

Spintronics: Physicists discover new material for highly efficient data processing

A new material could aid in the development of extremely energy efficient IT applications. The electrons…

Feeling legs again improves amputees' health

Two volunteers are the first above-knee amputees in the world to feel their prosthetic foot and…

Identity crisis for fossil beetle helps rewrite beetle family tree

A tiny fossil beetle, about the size of FDR’s nose on the US dime, is a…

Canadarm2 to help astronauts catch cargo ship and install new ISS batteries

On September 10, the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) will head to the International Space Station…

Kentucky Students to Speak with NASA Astronauts on Space Station

Students from Kentucky will have an opportunity this week to talk live with NASA astronauts currently…

Researchers develop new interferometric single-molecule localization microscopy

Various image-based central position estimation (termed “centroid fitting”) methods such as 2-D Gaussian fitting methods have…

The ever-winning lottery ticket: Mathematicians solve a dusty mystery

Is there a lottery ticket that always wins? So goes the popular version of a theoretical…