Starliner rakes it in — “Boeing has made significant investments in the commercial crew program.” Eric Berger – Nov 14, 2019 8:59 pm UTC Enlarge / Teams from NASA, Boeing, and the White Sands Missile Range rehearse landing and crew extraction from Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on Monday, Sept. 9, 2019.On Thursday, NASA’s inspector general released…
These vivid peacock clouds were created by violent galactic interactions – CNN
Astronomers who made the “accidental” discovery said the star is moving through space 10 times faster than any other star in the galaxy. The runway star was dubbed S5-HVS1 and it is estimated to be twice as heavy as our Sun. S5-HVS1 is believed to have been ejected from the galactic core nearly five million…
Home News Science & Astronomy When it comes to the mystery behind what causes jets of solar plasma that regularly erupt from the sun, clues have now emerged suggesting magnetic clashes on the surface of the sun may be the culprits, a new study finds.These findings may also help shed light on the puzzle of…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Catalysts accelerate chemical reactions, but the widely used metal platinum is scarce and expensive. Researchers at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), together with Chinese, Singaporean and Japanese researchers, have now developed an alternative with a 20 times higher activity: a catalyst with hollow nanocages of an alloy of nickel and platinum.…
(from left) Frank Vewinger, Martin Weitz, David Dung, Erik Busley and Christian Kurtscheid in the laboratory of the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Bonn. Credit: (c) Volker Lannert/Uni Bonn Light can be directed in different directions, usually also back the same way. Physicists from the University of Bonn and the University of…
Picture of the experimental setup showing the different components of the system and highlighting the path followed by the QCL light (red) and THz radiation (blue). Credit: Arman Amirzhan, Harvard SEAS Within the electromagnetic middle ground between microwaves and visible light lies terahertz radiation, and the promise of “T-ray vision.” Terahertz waves have frequencies higher…
It was another solo live QA this week and I did my best to answer as many audience questions as I could do, closing in on 60 questions during the hour. Needless to say it was a wide-ranging conversation with questions about where I think rovers should go, what do I think about time travel,…
Paleontologists in Japan have uncovered the fossilized remains of a 120-million-year-old flying dinosaur that’s seriously shaking up the bird family tree.Many of you have likely heard of Archaeopteryx—a winged, long-tailed dinosaur that lived during the Late Jurassic period some 160 million to 140 million years ago. This creature, with its flight and tail feathers, is…
WeatherPosted Nov 14, 2019 File photo of the Perseid meteor shower August 13, 2016, outside Maupin, Oregon, Mark Graves |The Oregonian/OregonLive.com November is the month the Earth gets treated to the bright Leonid meteor shower – active from about Nov. 6-30 each year. Peak activity is expected from midnight to 5 a.m., Sunday, Nov. 17…
