NASA’s SnowEx challenges the sensing techniques…’until they break’
Credit: Credits: NSIDC/Jeff Deems A NASA-led team will kick off an ambitious airborne campaign to determine which combination of sensors would work best at collecting...
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New window into the nanoworld
Credit: Photo by John Ulan for the University of Alberta. For the first time ever, scientists have captured images of terahertz electron dynamics of a...
Penn engineers overcome a hurdle in growing a revolutionary optical metamaterial
When John Crocker, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science was a graduate student,...
New approach to measure fluid drag on the body during swimming
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan - A key factor to improve swimming performance is reducing resistance that water exerts on the moving body. This...
New data about 2 distant asteroids give a clue to the possible ‘Planet Nine’
Credit: Julia de León (IAC). In the year 2000 the first of a new class of distant solar system objects was discovered, orbiting the Sun...
Tune your radio: Galaxies sing when forming stars
Credit: Maud Galametz. Almost all the light we see in the universe comes from stars which form inside dense clouds of gas in the interstellar...
What’s the healthiest way to eat your veggies? (video)
Credit: The American Chemical Society WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2017 -- Vegetables are chock-full of essential vitamins and minerals, but how should you eat them to...