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(Nanowerk News) It's cool to be small. Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have miniaturized the optical components required to cool atoms down to a few thousandths of a degree above absolute zero, the first step in ...

Scientists from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and the University of Western Australia (UWA) have set a world record for the most stable transmission of a laser signal through the atmosphere. In a study published today in the ...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel labeled it the British virus. In the U.K., it's called the Kent variant. Perhaps in the English county where a new coronavirus strain began to spread, the citizens of Royal Tunbridge Wells refer to the Canterbury, Margate or Dover ...

A commercial nanosat called SpaceTy Beihangkongshi-1 – launched November 2020 – has successfully used an iodine thruster to change its orbit around Earth. This new thruster might help clear space junk by steering small satellites, at the end of their ...

— Propulsion company Phase Four's satellite thrusters will launch to space this morning on a SpaceX mission. — 2020 was a record-setting year for space, but 2021 is shaping up to be ...

Glaciers that have remained on the surface of Mars for hundreds of million years are revealing secrets of the planet's unique geological past. By analysing the patterns and structures of rocks in 45 of the Red Planet's glaciers, researchers at Colgate University, ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) recently shared images that show Jupiter's northern and southern auroras - stunning light shows in a planet's atmosphere. The images were shared on NASA Hubble official Instagram page.

German scientists have demonstrated how they were able to repair the damaged spinal cords of mice by injecting something called a designer protein. Scientists genetically-engineered a protein that helped the mice repair their ...

"Interval training and [moderate-intensity continuous training (MOD)] both reduce body fat percentage," conclude the researchers. "Interval training provided 28.5% greater reductions in total absolute fat mass than MOD.".

January's lunar highpoint is kicking off the year with a roar, as the January 2021 full moon rises in the fiery and dramatic sign of Leo, which is symbolized by the mighty lion. Peaking on Jan. 28, this lunation makes some tumultuous planetary connections that ...

One of the places that many scientists believe could harbor life in our solar system is on the surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Titan has a gaseous atmosphere and scientists believe beneath that atmosphere is a sea of liquid methane known as Kraken ...

A crack on the Antarctic ice shelf grew dramatically in late 2020 into 2021. Scientists are watching to see if the rapidly accelerating crack will cause the shelf to rip apart before Antarctica's sunlit summer season – going on now – comes to an end. Sharing is ...

As per the report by the New York Post, Janhunen has also predicted that millions of people could inhabit the megacity in space within the next 15 years. Janhunen is an astrophysicist at the Finnish Metrological Insitute in ...

Working with researchers from the Center for Space and Habitability and NCCR PlanetS at the University of Bern in Switzerland, Bucknell physics and astronomy professor Katelyn Allers and postdoctoral researcher Blake Pantoja released a study recently in ...

In a major breakthrough discovery, palaeontologists have unearthed what we know as the fossil remains of one of the largest dinosaurs to have ever existed on Earth. The study, led by researchers from The Zapala Museum, Museo de La Plata, Museo Egidio ...

GLW Technologies owner Nick Shepherd discusses some of the features of a bio-inspired terrestrial drone currently in the works at the company's space in the Janesville Innovation Center on Thursday. The company does 3D printing and manufactures highly ...

Rhesus macaques develop promising immune response to SARS-CoV-2; Results suggest lasting immunity after infection. In a promising result for the success of vaccines against COVID-19, rhesus macaque monkeys infected with the human coronavirus ...

Fluorescence is the process by which a photon is absorbed, and another of slightly lower energy, and therefore longer wavelength, is subsequently emitted. Under normal circumstances, the electrons of a fluorophore (a molecule capable ...

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have detected the first Jupiter-like planet without clouds or haze in its observable atmosphere. The findings were published this month in the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Named WASP-62b ...

Tokyo Institute of Technology or Tokyo Tech scientists recently provided a deeper understanding of neural thirst control. Their research, which Nature Communications published, specifies that cholecystokinin-medicated water-intake suppression is regulated ...