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Science Made Simple: What Are Atomic Nuclei?
In 1911, Ernest Rutherford discovered that at the core of every atom is a nucleus. Atomic nuclei consist of electrically positive protons and electrically neutral neutrons. These are held together…
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Ancient Diamonds Show Earth Was Primed for Life’s Explosion of Diversity at Least 2.7 Billion Years Ago
One of the 2.7 billion year-old diamonds used in this work. Credit: Michael Broadley A unique study of ancient diamonds has shown that the basic chemical composition of the Earth’s…
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Bursting the Hubble Bubble: Powerful Ground-Based Telescope Will See Further and Clearer Than Hubble Space Telescope
This computer model shows how MAVIS will look on the instrument platform of VLT Unit Telescope 4 (Yepun) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory. The boxes indicate the various submodules of the…
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Surprising Insights Into Star Formation From Unprecedented Survey of the “Nurseries” Where Stars Are Born
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), scientists completed a census of nearly 100 galaxies in the nearby universe, showcasing their behaviors and appearances. The scientists compared ALMA data to…
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Axions Could Be the Fossil of the Universe Astrophysicists Have Been Waiting For
Finding the hypothetical particle axion could mean finding out for the first time what happened in the Universe a second after the Big Bang, suggests...
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Lower Exposure to UVB Light From the Sun May Increase Colorectal Cancer Risk
Inadequate exposure to UVB light from the sun may be associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer, particularly in older age groups, according to a study using data on…
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Protein “Big Bang” Reveals Molecular Makeup for Medicine and Bioengineering Applications
Proteins have been quietly taking over our lives since the COVID-19 pandemic began. We’ve been living at the whim of the virus’s so-called “spike” protein,...
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Deep Space Atomic Clock to Improve GPS, Increase Spacecraft Autonomy
NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock has been operating aboard the General Atomics Orbital Test Bed satellite since June 2019. This illustration shows the spacecraft in Earth orbit. Credit: General Atomics…
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NASA’s NEOWISE Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope Gets Two-Year Mission Extension
Artist’s concept of NASA’s WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft, which was an infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope active from December 2009 to February 2011. In September 2013 the spacecraft was…
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The City of David and the 80 Million-Year-Old Sharks’ Teeth Mystery
Artist’s impression of a Squalicorax shark. Credit: Dimitri Bogdanov Scientists have found an unexplained cache of fossilized shark teeth in an area where there should be none — in a…