[ad_1] © Jonathan NACKSTRAND Japanese-American scientist Syukuro Manabe, German Klaus Hasselmann and Italian Giorgio Parisi won the Nobel Prize in physics Japanese-American scientist Syukuro Manabe, German Klaus Hasselmann and Italy’s Giorgio Parisi on Tuesday won the Nobel Prize in Physics for climate models and understanding of physical systems, the jury said. The announcement came a … Read more
[ad_1] For the first time, an oceanic drone entered a hurricane and returned video. This ocean-going drone, a 23-foot-long Saildrone Explorer SD 1045, entered the furious Category 4 winds of Hurricane Sam on September 30, 2021, as it swirled in the Atlantic Ocean. The Saildrone returned images of 50-foot waves churned by winds of 120 … Read more
[ad_1] A swarm of 88 near-Earth asteroids hidden in the debris that produces the taurid meteor shower came from a single comet burst just 20,000 years ago, a new study has found. The study of the various objects of the “taurid complex” has allowed astronomers at the University of Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia, to better … Read more
[ad_1] RNA particles invade an X chromosome of a mouse in a new visualization of the inactivation of the X chromosome. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory Using dynamic modeling driven by a supercomputer and based on experimental data, researchers can now probe the process that deactivates an X chromosome in female mammalian embryos. This new … Read more
[ad_1] The researchers measured the mechanical forces applied to break a bond between carbon monoxide and iron phthalocyanine, which appears as a symmetrical cross in scanning probe microscope images taken before and after the rupture of the connection. Credit: Pengcheng Chen et al. The team used a high-resolution atomic force microscope (AFM) operating in a … Read more
[ad_1] The Astrovan is a legend in the world of space travel. No, not the Chevy Astro van that served families in the 1980s and 1990s – we’re talking about the NASA astronaut transfer van that carried space shuttle crews from the astronaut quarters to the launch pad. It was retired with the shuttle fleet, … Read more
[ad_1] Our solar system, with only one star in the sky, is maybe a little weird. Most stars in the Milky Way actually have at least one gravitationally bound stellar companion, which means two-star worlds like Tatooine are probably not uncommon. Star systems, however, are limited to a maximum of two stars. We have found … Read more
[ad_1] For over 4 billion years, life on earth has survived and prospered. This aerial view of Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park is one of the world’s most iconic terrestrial hydrothermal features. The colors are due to the various organisms living in these extreme conditions and depend on the amount of sunlight that … Read more
[ad_1] Credit: NASA / JHU-APL / SwRI When Pluto passed a star on the night of August 15, 2018, a team of astronomers led by the Southwest Research Institute had deployed telescopes to numerous sites in the United States and Mexico to observe Pluto’s atmosphere as it ‘it was briefly backlit by the well. star … Read more
[ad_1] NASA’s Psyche mission to a distant metallic asteroid will carry a revolutionary Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) package. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU Launch planned for next year, NasaThe Psyche mission marks the agency’s first time exploring an asteroid richer in metal than rock or ice. More than 150 years have passed since … Read more