HOUSTON – A burning smell coming from a toilet is not something you want to hear on Earth, so when it happened to NASA’s Artemis 2 astronauts on their way to the moon – well, you can bet Mission Control was listening. By the end of Friday (April 3), according to NASA The Work of … Read more
An international research collaboration led by the University of the Witwatersrand and Queen Mary University of London has published the most comprehensive genomic study of kidney function ever conducted in an African population, providing new information on the genetics of chronic kidney disease (CKD) across diverse African populations. Many newly identified species were common in … Read more
astronomers have discovered a third galaxy that does not contain dark matter, challenging conventional wisdom about the mysterious substance believed to hold galaxies together. Published in a new study available in pre-print on arXiv, this discovery of NGC 1052-DF9 adds weight to the strong theory of the “Bullet Dwarf” collision, which suggests that galaxies can … Read more
Astronomers have captured the longest gamma ray burst ever observed, a seven-hour burst of intense light from a black hole devouring a companion star. The event, called GRB 250702B, lasted about 25,000 seconds, breaking the previous record of 15,000 seconds and forcing scientists to rethink how the most powerful explosions in the universe work. Gamma … Read more
For many years, the development of artificial intelligence has followed a simple rule: make it bigger with more groups, more connections, more computing power. However, a new study suggests otherwise. Instead of going big, the study’s authors built a very small object – a quantum system with nine spins interacting with an atom – and … Read more
Passed 100 million peopleand more than 30% of adults in the United States suffer from some form of illness, and that number is by getting up. But where does this allergy come from? Do we inherit them, or are they caused by environmental conditions? The answer involves a bit of both, it said Dr AS … Read more
A team of undergraduates from the University of Chicago has identified one of the oldest known stars in the universe using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). The star did not originate in our galaxy. Instead, it formed a ring of stars near it and later moved to the Milky Way. The discovery … Read more
HOUSTON – They’re sipping smoothies, snapping phone pictures, dealing with e-mail and fixing broken toilets: astronomers, they’re just like us. The crew of Artemis II breaking through space towards Ngweding they’re on a different mission than the first, but the four of them are still distracted by the mundane things of life – all of … Read more
Physicists have created a very precise and very complex atomic clock based on ytterbium, which can test the limits of the Standard Model and even search for invisible dark matter. Led by Taiki Ishiyama, PhD, a physicist at Kyoto University’s School of Science in Japan, the project used the unusual orbital change of atoms, which … Read more
[–> An animated 3-D model of the moon, shown on a black background. [!–>[!–>[!–>[!–>[!–>[!–>[!–>[!–>[–> A 3-D model of the moon with the near side in view. It reads: This is the side of the moon we see from Earth [!–>[!–>[!–>[–> In the first era of moon exploration, NASA and the Soviet Union focused on the … Read more