After a highly lauded research campaign that successfully redesigned a hepatitis C drug into one of the leading drug treatments for COVID-19, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are now turning their drug design approach tow…
Researchers have found a new way to measure dark energy—the mysterious force that makes up more than two-thirds of the universe and is responsible for its accelerating expansion—in our own cosmic backyard.
A research team at the Advanced Science Research Center at the CUNY Graduate Center (CUNY ASRC) has shown that it is possible to manipulate photons so that they can collide, interacting in new ways as they cross paths. The discovery, detailed in Nature Physic…
On this Science 4 Everyone, meteorologist (and Science Teacher!) Ryan Miller shares fun facts about the meteors that streak brightly across the evening sky._...
Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts.
As the date for lift-off nears for India’s first solar mission ‘Aditya-L1’, ISRO shared photos of satellite. The satellite arrived at Sathish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota from U R Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru. ‘Aditya-L1’, India’s first sol
I recently read and enjoyed Cody J. Shakespeare and Jason H. Steffen’s effervescent “Day and Night: Habitability of Tidally Locked Planets with Sporadic Rotation.” They explain that potentially hab…
Our oceans are alien worlds, full of unsolved mysteries and sci-fi-worthy creatures.It should, therefore, come as no shock that scientists have just discovered a brand new monster lurking deep beneath the waves.The creature, which was found between 215 feet (…
On Oct. 14, 2023, an annular solar eclipse will cross North, Central, and South America. Visible in parts of the United States, Mexico, and many countries in...
An important recent discovery in physics came from measuring neutrinos—neutral, weakly interacting particles—produced by the sun. Nuclear reactions in the sun produce only electron neutrinos. According to the standard model, neutrinos come in three distinct "…
Artificial influence dims the sun via decarbonizing but entails high risks, requiring the release of millions of tons of aerosols into the stratosphere.
Researchers at the University of Bayreuth, together with partners in China and the U.S., have produced an oxide glass with unprecedented toughness. Under high pressures and temperatures, they succeeded in paracrystallizing an aluminosilicate glass: The result…
Faster space travel has been the holy grail of space agencies for decades and a UK-based aerospace company says it might have a viable solution in the form of nuclear fusion.