The sun is the brightest object in the sky, and probably the most studied celestial object.…
NEOWISE celebrates five years of asteroid data
NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission released its fifth year of survey data…
Researchers explore energy-saving catalysts that operate at room temperature
NIST researchers have explored in unprecedented detail a new breed of catalysts that allow some chemical…
Getting a smart tattoo without a needle
A tattoo that is warning you for too many hours of sunlight exposure, or is alerting…
Flying cars: Automating the skies means playing with our lives
Recent research suggests that flying cars could eventually be a sustainable way to free up roads.…
Farms create lots of data, but farmers don’t control where it ends up and who can use it
Most of us are familiar with cases of data being used in ways that go beyond…
Not an Oxymoron: Some X-Ray Binary Pulsars with Enormous Spin-Up Rates Reveal Weak Magnetic Fields
Abstract: Three high-mass X-ray binaries have been discovered recently exhibiting enormous spin-up rates. Conventional accretion theory…
A biosynthetic dual-core cell computer
ETH researchers have integrated two CRISPR-Cas9-based core processors into human cells. This represents a huge step…
Variations in the ‘fogginess’ of the universe identify a milestone in cosmic history
Large differences in the 'fogginess' of the early universe were caused by islands of cold gas…