New scientific apparatus creates electricity from snow

[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public Domain Researchers and colleagues at UCLA have designed a new device that generates electricity from falling snow. First of its kind, this device is inexpensive, small, thin and flexible, like a plastic sheet. "This device can work in remote areas because it provides its own power and does not require batteries," … Read more

TESS finds its first planet the size of the Earth

[ad_1] The artistic design of HD 21749c, the first Earth-sized planet discovered by NASA's Transiting Exoplanets Survey Satellite (TESS) satellite, and its brother, the HD 21749b, a warm world the size of the world. a size smaller than Neptune. Credit: Robin Dienel, Courtesy Carnegie Institution for Science A neighboring system hosts the first Earth-sized planet … Read more

New evidence suggests that volcanoes have caused the greatest mass extinction ever recorded

[ad_1] A volcanic eruption condemns a predatory gorgonopside during the Permian period. Credit: Margaret Weiner / UC Creative Services The researchers say that mercury buried in ancient rock is the strongest evidence to date that volcanoes have caused the largest mass extinction in the history of the Earth. The extinction of 252 million years ago … Read more

Astronomers examine for the first time, in high resolution, the huge region of the Milky Way forming stars

[ad_1] This image of a radio telescope shows a huge region in star formation of the outer galaxy of the Milky Way. The ovals identify the major subdivisions of the region's molecular cloud, including the smallest 1a, which is very effective at producing stars. Credit: Charles Kerton / Iowa State University Astronomers from the United … Read more

NASA's TESS mission discovers a terrestrial exoplanet

[ad_1] Strange and wonderful planets beyond our solar system Artistic illustration of HD 21749c, the first Earth-sized planet discovered by TESS, as well as its brother, the HD 21749b, a warm Neptune mini. Strange and wonderful planets beyond our solar system A "warm Saturn" passes in front of its host star in this illustration. Astronomers … Read more