[ad_1] Credit: Ames Laboratory Recently published research by a team of scientists led by the Ames Laboratory of the US Department of Energy sheds more light on the nature of high-temperature iron superconductivity. Current theories suggest that magnetic fluctuations play a very important role in the determination of superconducting properties and even act as a … Read more
[ad_1] Publishers, USA TODAY & # 39; HUI Posted at 3:49 am ET on July 9, 2019 TO CLOSE Obamacare can rely on a case in federal court The Affordable Care Act, which has survived two Supreme Court challenges and dozens of repeal attempts, faces another threat Tuesday. A panel of three judges of the … Read more
[ad_1] From about 1550 to 1850, a global cold wave called the small glaciers of the Ice Age in the Arctic. On Ellesmere Island in Canada, the Teardrop Glacier extended its frozen tongue across the landscape and swallowed a small tuft of moss. Since 1850, the plant was frozen under a 100-foot thick ice sheet, … Read more
[ad_1] The magnitude 7.1 earthquake rocked southern California at approximately 4:09 am (8:20 pm PT) just 16 km from Ridgecrest, California. Two days earlier, the USGS had recorded a 6.4 magnitude earthquake and aftershocks at the same location. Neither earthquake has been powerful to interfere with the Yellowstone volcano caldera in the northwestern United States. … Read more
[ad_1] NASA's mission is to explore a metal asteroid called 16 Psyche, to be launched in 2022. The immediate result is the coverage given by botched journalists, claiming that this "golden asteroid" will make everyone on Earth a billionaire. "will collapse prices of commodities and possibly the global economy. It's so obviously stupid that I've … Read more
[ad_1] Russia aims to build a base on the moon – and it will achieve this feat with the help of 3D – or additive – printing technologies that use lunar soil, said a spokesman for the Roscosmos space company to the Russian government TASS. Roscosmos said he wants to establish a lunar base by … Read more
[ad_1] Bright blue fireworks are much harder to produce than common colors like red, white or green. Pyrotechnicians have been trying to produce brilliant blue fireworks for centuries, to no avail. The challenge is that the copper compound needed to create this bright color dissipates at the high temperatures needed to operate a fireworks. Meanwhile, … Read more
[ad_1] Spring may already be in our rearview mirror, but NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is still in the mood for what's blooming. In a new message, NASA presents a recent snapshot of a galaxy called NGC 972, captured by the powerful telescope. The galaxy is growing, new stars heating up clouds of hydrogen and creating … Read more
[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public Domain The potential precursors of life on Earth come from a variety of complex mixtures. According to a team of scientists, this could indicate the development of building blocks essential for the formation of genetic molecules for the origins of life on Earth. Genetic molecules can store and reproduce information and … Read more
[ad_1] "We still do not know if the origin is artificial or natural," said Harvard astronomer, Avi Loeb, about Fast Radio Bursts (FRB), one of the biggest mysteries of astrophysics. In a rare feat, Caltech's researchers discovered a new explosion, called FRB 190523, which traces its origins to a galaxy 7.9 billion light years distant. … Read more