Scientist Shows There Are Two Ways to Measure a Day on Earth – We Use The Longer One How long does it take Earth to complete a 360-degree rotation? Not quite 24 hours, it turns […]
Astronomers Have Discovered a Surprise Asteroid Orbiting Closer to The Sun Than Venus Astronomers have painstakingly built models of the asteroid population, and those models predict that there will be ~1 km sized asteroids that […]
Researchers develop the world’s smallest ultrasound detector Researchers at Helmholtz Zentrum München and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed the world’s smallest ultrasound detector. It is based on miniaturized photonic circuits on top […]
How planetary nebulae get their shapes About 7.5 billion years from now, our sun will have converted most of its hydrogen fuel into helium through fusion, and then burned most of that helium into carbon […]
Infrared eyes on Enceladus: Hints of fresh ice in northern hemisphere Scientists used data gathered by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during 13 years of exploring the Saturn system to make detailed images of the icy moon—and […]
Oceanbird cargo ship relies on wind to transport autos The latest trend in cargo shipping has roots in a concept that’s been around a while. Say, 7,000 years or so. The technology is the wind, […]