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Your hands can be a useful tool for measuring the night sky. (Image credit: Created with Canva Pro) Of the five bright planets with the naked eye, the two that are best for viewing in April are in the evening sky. Amazing Venuslow west-northwest about two hours after sunset, and bright Jupiterwhich flies high in … Read more
Astronomy Artemis II is about to take a trip to a record-breaking flight orbiting the moon, giving NASA a rare opportunity to study how deep space affects the human body. After leaving Earth’s protective gravity, the four-person crew will be exposed to space weather – which includes intense bursts of radiation from the sun, known … Read more
“Few decisions are as important to the success of the organization as choosing the right leaders. I believe that our 2023 work to hire Bob Deans as Chief Technology Officer, the addition of John Sinnamon last year and now the appointment of Genevieve Laforet will prove to change the community of Rett that we serve.” … Read more
Summary: Are you a morning owl or a night owl? The answer is written in your hair. Researchers have developed a powerful diagnostic test that determines the chronotype (internal biological clock) using just a few strands of hair. By analyzing the activity of 17 genes in the hair follicle, the team could map circadian rhythms … Read more
NASA is just hours away from launching Artemis 2, the first mission to land humans on the moon in more than half a century. About 10 days flight – expected to raise today (April 1) from the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida at 6:24 pm EDT (2224 GMT) – will carry NASA astronauts Reid … Read more
Xia, Y. et al. Superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe2. Nature 6372025–838 (2025). Article Google Scholar Guo, Y. et al. Superconductivity in 5.0° twisted bilayer WSe2. Nature 637839–845 (2025). Article ADS CAS PubMed Google Scholar Cao, Y. et al. Correlative behavior of half-filling magic-angle graphene superlattices. Nature 55680–84 (2018). Article ADS CAS PubMed Google Scholar Yankowitz, … Read more
SINGAPORE – A plan to encourage people to recycle their bottles and cans by putting them in a vending machine was installed on April 1, but it was difficult to find suitable containers in the market, checks by The Straits Times show. Under the drinks container return scheme, customers pay a deposit of 10 cents … Read more
For more than three hundred years, Amonons first law has been one of the most reliable principles of physics. Written by the French physicist Guillaume Amontons in his 1699 book De la résistance causée dans les machines, the law states that the force of friction is directly proportional to the applied load, which means that … Read more
On the other hand, experts say, Europe is more prepared for this crisis than the previous one. On the other hand, it is fighting a cultural war against the most obvious way out. Fuel prices have risen to dangerous levels since the war with Iran left oil and natural gas (LNG) tankers in the Gulf. … Read more
The latest update to LIGO’s catalog has doubled the number of confirmed gravitational waves – waves in spacetime caused by catastrophic events. And now, astronomers come to the dire decision of selecting an updated dataset. In a Nature paper published today, researchers have confirmed the first evidence of two unstable supernovae, doing so with gravitational … Read more