A material has been developed that can store solar energy during the day and release it later in the form of heat when required. A team of researchers at MIT behind the development said that the transparent polymer film has application in many different surfaces like window glass or clothing. […]
Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on Jan. 11, 1996. Photo Credit: NASASpace Shuttle Endeavour launches on Jan. 11, 1996. Photo Credit: NASA On Jan. 11, 1996, Space Shuttle Endeavour lifted off from NASA’s Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on STS-72 – a mission, among other things, that was sent aloft […]
Fireman inspect the damage near Waroona, 70 miles south of Perth, after a huge bushfire which has razed about 71,000 hectares in Western Australia state Cooler temperatures and easing winds Monday helped firefighters contain a bushfire that killed two people and razed 143 properties, with clean-up efforts getting underway. The […]
Space Zinnias growing inside the International Space Station’s Veggie facility are on the rebound! Credit: NASA/Scott Kelly/@StationCDRKelly Zinnia experimental plants growing aboard the International Space Station (ISS)have staged a dramatic New Year’s comeback from a potential near death experience over the Christmas holidays, when traces of mold were discovered. And […]
In this Thursday Jan. 7, 2016 photo, a woman arrives to collect stagnant rain water from an unfinished sewerage treatment tank, now used as a well, to do her laundry in Senekal, South Africa where taps and water sources have run dry. Senekal, a small town in South Africa’s rural […]
Orbital ATK’s Jessica Widrick is working to have two of the company’s five segment solid rocket boosters hoist NASA’s new super heavy-lift Space Launch System aloft. Photo Credit: Mark Usciak / SpaceFlight Insider Enlarge KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla — It has been more than forty years since humanity broke free […]
WYLIE BECKERT FOR QUANTA MAGAZINE EARLIER THIS MONTH the math world turned toward the University of Oxford, looking for signs of progress on a mystery that has gripped the community for three years. The occasion was a conference on the work of Shinichi Mochizuki, a brilliant mathematician at Kyoto University […]
This image shows the latest results as colored dots superimposed on an artist’s conception of the Milky Way. Red dots show stars that formed when the Milky Way was young and small, while blue shows stars that formed more recently, when the Milky Way was big and mature. The color […]
This image shows SDSS observations of one of the LIER galaxies used in this study. The underlying image is from the SDSS and includes a scale bar. The pink hexagon shows the size of the MaNGA fiber optic bundle. The region inside the hexagon shows the newly-derived map of interstellar […]
NASA’s New Horizons mission team have combined data from two instruments to create this composite image of Pluto’s informally named Viking Terra area. (Click to enlarge.) Image Credit: NASA / JHU-APL / SwRI Enlarge The first images released in 2016 of Pluto by NASA’s New Horizons mission team show the direction […]