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NPR's Miles Parks speaks with PhD candidate in mechanical engineering at MIT, Crystal Owens, about her scientific study, "On Oreology, the fracture and flow of 'milk's favorite cookie.'"...

In chemistry, we have He, Fe and Ca—but what about do, re and mi? Hauntingly beautiful melodies aren't the first things that come to mind when looking at the periodic table of the elements. However, using a technique called data sonification, a ...

Black women and others with curly or kinky hair encounter a vast and confusing array of haircare options. Advice on the best products to use for a certain type of hair is often contradictory, and the results can be highly variable. Now, scientists are bri...

If you've ever seen a shooting star, you might have actually seen a meteor on its way to Earth. Those that land here are called meteorites and can be used to peek back in time, into the far corners of outer space or at the earliest building blocks of ...

Hundreds of unfilled residency spots in emergency medicine are telling us that critical care is in trouble...

Tomonori Totani, an astrobiologist with the University of Tokyo is proposing that the search for life beyond Earth be expanded to the study of space dust. In his paper published in the journal International Journal of Astrobiology, he suggests that space ...

And what can happen to your body if you stay awake way past your bedtime?...

Building with Legos is a favored pastime for many small children and adults. We've even covered some more space-oriented Lego sets here at UT. But, as the Lego movie points out, they constitute "a highly sophisticated interlocking brick system....

When the Artemis astronauts and future explorers go to the Moon and Mars, they'll need power. Lots of it. Of course, they'll use solar panels to generate the juice they need for habitats, experiments, rovers, and so on. But, they'll need batte...

The Ninth Community Workshop for Achievability and Sustainability of Human Exploration of Mars (AM IX) just released its official report. Here are some of the biggest takeaways. The post The 9th Annual Achieving Mars Workshop Report has been Released! How...

This past week was a mixed bag for Relativity Space and their 3D-printed methane-fueled rocket engine. While the company's Terran 1 rocket blasted off successfully on Wednesday, March 22, the second stage failed to ignite a few minutes after launch. T...

In response to our series on spillover viruses, you had many questions: from the role of climate change to possible benefits. We turn the mic to you for a special edition of 'Hidden Viruses.'...

Moore also made his famous observation, now known as Moore's Law, three years before he helped start Intel in 1968. It said the capacity and complexity of integrated circuits would double every year....

Individual behavior patterns may skew studies. A "STRANGE" new approach could help. The post Animal Personalities Can Trip Up Science, But There's a Solution appeared first on Nautilus ....

Scientists have found what appear to be rogue planets hidden in old survey data. Their results are starting to define the poorly-understood rogue planet population. In the near future, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will conduct a search for more f...

Anom Harya/Shutterstock Shoot for the moon . Even if you miss, you'll land on the next tree. Many groups of mammals seem to have taken this evolutionary advice to heart. According to our newly published paper in Science Advances , unrelated animals ma...

Pradeep Niroula reports from the 2023 APS March Meeting The post High rolling on high- T c : dispatches from Las Vegas appeared first on Physics World ....

Excerpts from the Red Folder The post Scouring the ocean floor for an alien probe, bloodless concrete for Martian homes appeared first on Physics World ....

Learn why the quadratic formula works and why quadratics are easier to solve than cubics. The post The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy first appeared on Quanta Magazine...

An advisory committee called on the European Space Agency to develop a comprehensive human spaceflight program using a more commercial approach. The post Advisory group backs European human spaceflight program using commercial approaches appeared first on...

Rocket Lab launched a pair of BlackSky imaging satellites March 24 on a launch that was also a test of its ability to recover and reuse boosters. The post Rocket Lab launches BlackSky satellites appeared first on SpaceNews ....

The strongest solar storm in six years delayed Rocket Lab's early morning launch on Friday, March 24, by 90 minutes, and space weather forecasters didn't see coming....

On Friday, March 24, the moon will be closely separated from Uranus offering skywatchers an excellent guide to spotting the ice giant....

SpaceX plans to launch 56 of its Starlink internet satellites and land a rocket at sea today (March 24), and you can watch the action live....

Tonight, after sunset, it will be possible to see three planets line up with the crescent moon and a fourth, if you have binoculars and a dark sky...

A smart bionic finger can reconstruct three-dimensional subsurface profiles of complex human tissues and flexible electronics The post 'Bionic finger' creates 3D maps of human tissue appeared first on Physics World ....

The first flight of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle with astronauts on board, previously scheduled for late April, has been delayed, likely until the summer. The post First crewed Starliner launch slips again appeared first on Space...

Rocket Lab plans to launch two satellites early Friday morning (March 24), on a mission that includes a booster recovery at sea. Watch it live here....

In the Galapagos Islands, finches that live near cities have higher survival rates against parasitic flies than those who live in the country...

The secret to a perfect croissant is the layers—as many as possible, each one interspersed with butter. Similarly, a new material with promise for new applications is made of many extremely thin layers of metal, between which scientists can slip dif...

In an analysis of electronic health records for 18,355 live births during the COVID-19 pandemic, maternal SARSCoV2 positivity during pregnancy was associated with nearly two-fold higher odds of a neurodevelopmental diagnosis at 12 months of age among male...

Continued warming of the climate would see a rise in the number and spread of potentially fatal infections caused by bacteria found along parts of the coast of the United States.Vibrio vulnificus bacteria grow in warm shallow coastal waters and can infect...

According to the study the theory that Stonehenge served as a a solar calendar is wrong. Instead, its structure would have been linked to the connection between the afterlife and winter solstice, found in Neolithic societies....

Cases of dengue fever and other zoonotic diseases will keep increasing owing to climate change, and prevention via early warning is one of our best options against them. Recently, researchers combined a machine learning model with remote sensing climatic ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have identified the role of an enzyme responsible for the cross-linking reaction that activates macrophage, which is important in the development of kidney fibrosis. These enzymes induce a common activation mechan...

Applying hydrostatic pressure as an external stimulus, Tokyo Tech and Keio University researchers demonstrate a new way to regulate singlet fission (SF), a process in which two electrons are generated from a single photon, in chromophores, opening doors t...

The 2022 summer heatwave resulted in a fifth of UK hospitals being forced to cancel operations during the three days when temperatures soared, a new study reveals....

How can anyone seek shelter from a natural disaster they don't even know is coming? Last year the United Nations called for every person on the planet to be covered by early warning systems by 2027—but months into the effort it is becoming clear...

As a child, Dong Van Canh watched while the rice fields of Vietnam's Mekong Delta were set alight to make way for the next crop, blackening the sky and flooding the air with potent greenhouse gases....

Acceleration of 'Oumuamua is due to the release of entrapped molecular hydrogen formed through energetic processing of an H2O-rich icy body, supporting the idea that it originated as a planetesimal relic similar to Solar System comets....

Snapshots of pigment isomerization in the rhodopsin protein....

The thought of time sheets in academia might fill you with horror, but they could help you to prioritize tasks, says Inger Mewburn....

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AI tests self-driving vehicles by collating dangerous scenarios....

Model for the unusual characteristics of an interstellar object....

As the world faces increasingly extreme and frequent weather events brought on by climate change—such as droughts, floods, heatwaves, and wildfires—critical civic resources such as food, water, and energy will be impacted. Local and regional p...

Genetic sleuthing points to liver disease, viral hepatitis and alcohol consumption as causes of the composer's demise....

How the epithelialmesenchymal transition of cells affects chemotherapy....

Analysis of a supersoft X-ray source shows an accretion disk whose optical spectrum is completely dominated by helium, suggesting that it is a white dwarf binary accreting helium from a hydrogen-free donor star....

Anthropogenic pressures and climate change are altering water flows worldwide. Better understanding, new economic thinking and an international governance framework are needed to stave off catastrophe....