Is it time to play again with the spaceships?

[ad_1] This year's big movie was "Midnight Cowboy," a scathing portrait of Times Square's X-awarded gangster, who later won an Oscar. Woodstock – three days of peace, love and music in the mud in northern New York State – was followed a few months later by the Altamont Festival in California, where a man was … Read more

Two-dimensional perovskite materials have unique conductive edge states

[ad_1] Topographic view of the surface of the perovskite layer (1) and image of the electric current of the same layer showing the conductive edges. Credit: Penn State Researchers have discovered a new class of two-dimensional perovskite-based materials with conductive edges as well as insulating cores. These unique properties have applications in solar cells and … Read more

Physicists discover the first possible 3D quantum spin liquid

[ad_1] PICTURE: 3D representation of spin-excitation continuum – possible characteristic of a quantum spin liquid – observed in a monocrystalline sample of cerium zirconium pyrochlore during experiments … view more Credit: Tong Chen / Rice University HOUSTON – (July 15, 2019) – There is no known way to prove the existence of a "quantum spin … Read more

Thirty years of unique data reveal what really kills coral reefs

[ad_1] In the early 1980s, an apnea diver swims among Elkhorn's healthy corals off Key Largo in the Florida Keys. Named for its deer-shaped antler form for its colonies, Elkhorn's coral is one of the most important corals of the Caribbean. Current populations are struggling to recover from coral disease and bleaching. Elkhorn's coral has … Read more

Here is a first. Astronomers see a moon forming around an exoplanet

[ad_1] Astronomers have discovered, for the first time, moons forming in the debris disk around a large exoplanet. Astronomers have long suspected that this is how large planets, like Jupiter in our own solar system, take their moon. Everything happens around a very young star named PDS 70, about 370 light years from the constellation … Read more

A leaking component caused the SpaceX crew dragon's explosion

[ad_1] Since Shuttle program ended in 2011, US astronauts departing for the International Space Station had to hitchhike with the Russians. It is an expensive arrangement – $ 75 million per seat – that depends on the cordial relations between Moscow and Washington. This is why the priority of the US space program is to … Read more

Scientists develop materials to create living areas on Mars

[ad_1] Image of a Martian polar cap with dark pockets of warming due to trapped carbon dioxideImage: Harvard SEAS The surface of Mars, as far as we can judge, is not habitable for man – it is far too cold. But eventually, humanity would like to install an outpost on the planet. It will take … Read more