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Thermal magIC: Digging into the details of an ambitious new 'thermometry camera'
Thermometers can do a lot of things: Measure the temperature at the center of your perfectly…
NASA's Chandra rewinds story of great eruption of the 1840s
Using snapshots taken over 20 years with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have learned important new…
Feds' cash stream supports Colorado River conservation—but the money will dry up
Despite a megadrought, states in the West have been able to avoid drastic cuts to their…
Researchers prepare for exascale supercomputer simulations of nuclear reactors
Nuclear energy is responsible for approximately one-fifth of total electricity used in the U.S., and nearly…
NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule arrives in Houston
The first U.S. asteroid sample, delivered by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to Earth on Sept. 24, has…
Soil carbon, nitrogen, soil fertility and climate change are tightly linked, new research shows
In a first-of-its-kind long-term study, a collaborative group of scientists, including senior author Ashley Keiser, assistant…
Fungus versus flies: Following a scent towards insecticide-free pest management
While a blueberry with a fungal infection might end up in most people’s compost bin, for…
Researchers fabricate chip-based optical resonators with record low UV losses
Researchers have created chip-based photonic resonators that operate in the ultraviolet (UV) and visible regions of…
Intercomparison of multi-model ensemble-processing strategies for climate projection in China
A new study led by Prof. Zhihong Jiang at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology…