Dust storms on Mars amplify effects of solar storms
New research suggests that dust storms on Mars could interact with solar storms to alter the planet’s lower…
Critical minerals: The hidden resources powering the clean energy future
The story in 60 seconds Every electric vehicle, wind turbine, solar panel, smart phone; they all depend on…
Precision Astrometry
Paul StankusBrookhaven Science Associates The scientific goal is to enable a new method for observing gravitational waves at…
Guest Post: What a High School Student Found When He Stress-Tested a Quantum Benchmark
Guest Post By Jithesh Mithra, Independent Researcher, Jacksonville, Florida Here is a result that should not happen. Take…
The Sky Today on Wednesday, July 22: Dione passes north of Saturn
Back to Article List The 10th-magnitude moon Dione skims above Saturn’s north pole early this morning, accompanied by…
Global assessment shows blue carbon wealth dominated by ocean processes and unevenly distributed across countries
Data sources and spatial harmonization We compiled updated datasets on blue carbon ecosystem extent, annual carbon sequestration, biological…
Morgan Stanley Projects the Space Economy Could Reach $1 Trillion in the Coming Decades. 3 Companies Positioned to Benefit.
With high-profile launches and increased investments, the space economy appears to be entering a growth phase. And although…
A black bear’s heart drops from roughly 55 beats per minute to as few as 8 during hibernation, yet it emerges in spring with almost no muscle or bone loss: a biological trick space agencies are studying to protect astronauts on long missions
In summer, an American black bear’s heart beats around 55 times a minute. Deep in hibernation it can…
China’s world-leading renewable megabases rely on coal-heavy transmission
Beijing: China is building more large-scale wind and solar than the rest of the world combined, but inadequate…
NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica
Data from the Earth-orbiting U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite’s L-band radar was used to produce an…
Rainbow Snake: The hidden wetland hunter that depends on American eels and rarely encounters humans |
The rainbow snake is a large, non-venomous species with a glossy black body marked by three thin red…
Open-Source AI Predicts Peptide Properties
A laptop running PeptiVerse, at left, next to machines used to synthesize peptides, center and at right. Researchers…