Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made one of the…
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Human Heart Cells Are Altered by Spaceflight, but Return to (Mostly) Normal on Earth
Heart muscle cells derived from stem cells show remarkable adaptability to their environment during and…
Satellites Are Key to Monitoring Ocean Carbon
Satellites now play a key role in monitoring carbon levels in the oceans, but we…
Radiation Detector with the Lowest Noise in the World Boosts Quantum Work
Researchers from Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have built a super-sensitive…
Dust from a Giant Asteroid Crash Caused an Ancient Ice Age
About 466 million years ago, long before the age of the dinosaurs, the Earth froze.…
Long Before Armstrong and Aldrin, Artists Were Stoking Dreams of Space Travel
In the midst of the space race, Hereward Lester Cooke, the former co-director of the…
How NASA Is Becoming More Business Friendly
A new case study demonstrates the steps being taken by the U.S. National Aeronautics and…
Small but Mighty: Mini Satellite May Launch New Era in Space Exploration
A tiny satellite under construction at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics…
North Carolina Coastal Flooding Is Worsening with Climate Change, Population Growth
A historic 120-year-old data set is allowing researchers to confirm what data modeling systems have…
Super Volcanic Eruptions Interrupt Ozone Recovery
Since the Antarctic ozone hole was detected in 1985, depletion of the ozone layer–the “big…
