An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Thirty years ago, a botanist in Germany had a simple wish: to see the inner workings of woody plants without dissecting them. By bleaching away the pigments in plant cells, Siegfried Fink managed to creat…
A lagoon in Argentina's Puna de Atacama harbors microbial communities, known as stromatolites, that could be good examples of the earlier form of life on Ear...
Two instruments on NASA’s upcoming PACE satellite mission will look at aerosols and clouds – the A and C in the mission’s name, Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, oce...
NASA’s mission is to explore the unknown in air and space, innovate for the benefit of humanity, and inspire the world through discovery. NASA showed the wor...
Exposure to the carcinogenic form of a chemical element called hexavalent chromium during and after wildfires can increase risks of lung, sinus and nasal cavity cancers, the study said.
Exposure to the carcinogenic form of a chemical element called hexavalent chromium during and after wildfires can increase risks of lung, sinus and nasal cavity cancers, the study said.
In a story ripped from the opening scenes of a sci-fi horror movie, scientists have bridged a critical gap between the biological and electronic. The study...
The most famous comet of all is headed back toward Earth. Halley's comet reached aphelion—its farthest point from the sun—on Dec. 8, at which point it began its long journey back to the sun.
Since infrared light is undetectable to human vision, scientists and image processors convert infrared light wavelengths into colours that can be seen.
The ability to transmit information coherently in the band of the electromagnetic spectrum from microwave to infrared is vitally important to the development of the advanced quantum networks used in computing and communications.
NASA’s IXPE telescope has unveiled groundbreaking images of SN 1006's magnetic fields, offering new insights into particle acceleration in supernovas and enhancing our understanding of cosmic magnetic phenomena. NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer…
Considering its omnipresence across the industry, Instrumentation and Nanoscience has been selected as one of the main tracks at this year’s Pittcon. This article will delve into these topics further, highlighting the significance and potential of these groun…
Meghan Bartels reports via Scientific American: Some sky watchers this month will witness Betelgeuse, one of the brightest and best-known stars in the sky, nearly disappear. Mere seconds later -- despite astronomers' hopes that the star will meet its explosi…