A variant of the Vizier system called Google Open Source Vizier was created and made available as open-source software by Google. With Google's cloud computing infrastructure, including products like Google Cloud AI Platform and Google Kubernetes Engine, this…
After crunching a mountain of astronomy data, Clarissa Pavao, an undergraduate at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Prescott, Arizona campus, submitted her preliminary analysis. Her mentor’s response was swift and in all-caps. “THERE’S AN ORBIT!” he wrot…
It is becoming apparent to modern scientists that heavy elements such as gold, platinum, iodine and silver exist on earth as a product of neutron-star collisions. Of all the heavy elements, …
It is becoming apparent to modern scientists that heavy elements such as gold, platinum, iodine and silver exist on earth as a product of neutron-star collisions. Of all the heavy elements, …
In the golden age of space exploration we live in, cosmic revelations seem to occur more frequently than ever before. This week, astronomers discovered a rarity: two stars that could one day collide and produce showers of gold.
Living systems are built from a small subset of the atomic elements, including the bulk macronutrients (C,H,N,O,P,S) and ions (Mg,K,Na,Ca) together with a small but variable set of trace elements (micronutrients).
Researchers unveil a new method to visualize cell organization. Working with hundreds of thousands of high-resolution images, researchers from the Allen Institute for Cell Science, a division of the Allen Institute, put numbers on the internal organization of…
Share If you like it The ozone layer is on track to heal within four decades, which can be undone by an upsurge in rocket launches The ozone layer is on track to heal within four decades, according to a recent United Nations report, but this progress could b…
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning new image of the Tarantula Nebula, which lies 161,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Massachusetts, Feb 4: Deep below the ocean surface, the light fades into a twilight zone where whales and fish migrate and dead algae and zooplankton rain down from above. This is the heart of the ocean’s carbon pump, part of the natural ocean processes that …