The thinning of Arctic sea ice has increased the number of melt ponds — dark pools of water on the ice surface — and permitted enough sunlight to penetrate to the ocean water that phytoplankton...
The vaccine consists of strands of genetic material known as messenger RNA, which are packaged into a nanoparticle that delivers the RNA into cells. Once inside cells, the RNA is translated...
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have revealed stars forming within powerful outflows of material blasted out from supermassive black holes at the cores of galaxies. These are the...
Astronomers have identified a brown dwarf that was formed about 10 billion years ago and is made of gas that is around 250 times purer than the Sun. International astronomers has identified a record...
A team of astronomers has discovered a supermassive black hole that is “choking” on a sudden influx of stellar debris. The black hole is located in the center of a distant galaxy, almost 300...
For Windows laptop, manufacturers spend a lot of time tuning their device drivers. But for Linux, it usually doesn’t get the same attention. Linux may perform just as well as Windows on the same...
New Hubble observations help astronomers determine an accurate age for the Fermi Bubbles and how they came to be. The supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy has been a long...
These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn’s tiny moon, Pan, were taken on March 7, 2017, by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. The flyby had a close-approach distance of 24,572 kilometers (15,268 miles).
Although this intriguing spiral looks like the pattern of a shell on the beach, in fact it is astronomical in nature. The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) captured this remarkable...
A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute has developed a metal-organic framework compound that can be used to separate deuterium and tritium from normal hydrogen more efficiently than...