The exoplanet community already has ways to detect an H2 atmosphere by transmission spectroscopy. However, the mass of the H2 atmosphere – the parameter that controls the temperature at the...
Chris Boshuizen, a co-founder of the satellite data firm Planet, took a ride to the edge of space with Captain Kirk this week on Blue Origin’s second crewed New Shepard...
A new wave of funding focuses on antiviral nanomaterials as pandemic countermeasures. A flurry of recent papers highlights growing interest in approaches that employ nanomaterials as antiviral countermeasures. Compared with...
Home News Science & Astronomy This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy NGC 5728 130 million light-years from Earth, a spiral galaxy that resembles a celestial eye....
News @andrew_andrew__ Sep 26, 2021, 1:13 pm EDT | 1 min read Northwestern UniversityCollections of millimeter-sized electronics may one day float through the air, collecting data on the air, the...
Deep learning is now being used to translate between languages, predict how proteins fold, analyze medical scans, and play games as complex as Go, to name just a few applications...
You might think that GPS navigation is ideal for automated agriculture, since the task facing the operator of a farm vehicle like a combine harvester is simply to drive around...
This article appeared in the September/October 2021 issue of Discover magazine as "Death Defying." Become a subscriber for unlimited access to our archive.At the end of Plato’s Republic, the philosopher Socrates shares the myth...
Readers intent on enlightening me often send me books and essays written by them or, less often, others. Now and then one of these offerings grabs my attention before I...
Outer Space Major Tom to Ground Control ... There's a Giant Asteroid Headed Our Way!!! 7/25/2021 7:01 AM PT There's a notable, near-ish-collision on Earth -- or at least one...
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