[ad_1] Spotted When scientists calculate the amount of matter that should exist in the universe, their estimates still far outweigh the amount of material they actually counted. The consensus, in fact, is that we miss about a third of the material that should be out. But thanks to a new scanning technique of the cosmos, … Read more
[ad_1] Enlarge / The Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft appears on this false-color infrared image when it was launched with NASA Flight Engineer Nick Hague and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin from Roscosmos on Thursday, October 11, 2018. NASA Although NASA's Commercial Crew Program continues to show progress – the first SpaceX Crew Dragon test flight could take … Read more
[ad_1] Abstract An important goal of the scientific community is to broaden the success and participation of racial minorities in the fields of STEM. Yet, faculty beliefs about stability of capacity may be an unwitting and neglected barrier for stigmatized students. Results from a university-wide longitudinal sample (150 STEM professors and more than 15,000 students) … Read more
[ad_1] In 1994, a magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck Bolivia, causing a shock wave throughout the interior of the planet. These shock waves have since allowed scientists to take an unprecedented look at what is happening beneath the surface and discover a massif that could be larger than Everest. The waves reflect and change shape as … Read more
[ad_1] Astronomers have used Chandra to possibly identify the location of one-third of the hydrogen, helium and other elements created after the Big Bang, but which do not occur. have not yet been found in the current universe. This "missing mass" may consist of large hot and hot gas filaments known as WHIM. The graph … Read more
[ad_1] A simulation of colliding neutron starsGraphic: C. Breu, L. Rezzolla Scientists are imagining ways to probe the nature of the smallest bits of the Universe – the quarks – by observing the ultra-dense neutron stars that collide. Particle colliders in Switzerland and Long Island, New York State, have each highlighted a whole new form … Read more
[ad_1] SpaceX's Elon Musk and Blue Origin's Jeff Bezos have long dominated the news with their respective advances in the private space travel industry. But two Chinese private companies are also making big changes and earning billions in investments as the Chinese state space agency announces its own ambitious goals. Here is what happens in … Read more
[ad_1] Nikolayhg "You just have to believe!" Is the kind of banal line that you expect in a children's movie about a magic talking dog. But it seems that this sentence is also an important tip for college teachers. This is the result of a large study by Elizabeth Canning at Indiana University, in which … Read more
[ad_1] Sirius, a two-star system and the brightest object in the night sky, will disappear briefly for part of the Earth on Monday night. In an event called occultation – when an object in space blocks another's light behind it – a small asteroid called (4388) Jürgenstock slips in front of the star for a … Read more
[ad_1] China's latest robotic expedition on the lunar surface is overseen by an American spacecraft orbiting the moon. NASA has just released the image, as of February 1 st. It was created while its lunar reconnaissance orbiter was 82 kilometers (50 miles) above the Chinese Chang'e 4 expedition that had landed and deployed a small … Read more