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[ad_1] A meteor streaks over Washington in 2015. (Joel Kowsky/NASA) The Leonid meteor shower peaks Friday and Saturday, with clouds clearing in time to see several shooting stars in the hours before …

[ad_1] Meet the Kordylewski dust clouds, shimmering pseudo-satellites that orbit Earth near the moon. A team of Hungarian astronomers say they have spotted light scattered from one of these clouds, providing evidence …

[ad_1] Bacteria are omnipresent, from the greasy handrail that you touched this morning to the bottom of the seabed, not to mention the trillion dollars live happily along your intestinal tract. However, …

[ad_1] Study Opens Route to Ultra-Low-Power Microchips A new approach to controlling magnetism in a microchip could open the doors to memory, computing, and sensing devices that consume drastically less power than …

[ad_1] The Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, created these Damage Proxy Maps (DPMs) depicting areas in California likely damaged by the Woolsey …

[ad_1] Last year 's astronomers discovered the Oumuamua asteroid, which crossed our solar system after arriving from another star. While the cigar-shaped asteroid was passing through our solar system, scientists began to …

[ad_1] You’ve flushed something valuable down the toilet today. Organic compounds in household sewage and industrial wastewater are a rich potential source of energy, bioplastics and even proteins for animal feed — …

[ad_1] L-R: Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way, Antlia 2. Credit: V. Belokurov based on the images by Marcus and Gail Davies and Robert Gendler The Gaia satellite has spotted an enormous …

[ad_1] Tandem solar cells made of silicon and metal halide perovskite compounds can convert to a large part of the solar spectrum into electrical energy. However, part of the light is reflected …

[ad_1] The plants are boring. They simply sit down during photosynthesis while the animals are having fun. Right? Not really. Observe the interactions between ants and plants – the plants have evolved …