It went out with a whimper instead of a bang. The star, which was 25 times as massive as our sun, should have exploded in a very bright supernova. Instead,
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Juno mission to Jupiter delivers first science results
“What we’ve learned so far is earth-shattering. Or should I say, Jupiter-shattering,” said Bolton, Juno’s principal investigator. “Discoveries about its core, composition, magnetosphere, and poles are as stunning as the
Magnetic switch turns strange quantum property on and off
Now, there is a way to control the outcome, thanks to an international research group led by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The team has
US nuclear regulators greatly underestimate potential for nuclear disaster
Published by researchers from Princeton University and the Union of Concerned Scientists, the article argues that NRC inaction leaves the public at high risk from fires in spent-nuclear-fuel cooling pools
Why the Sumatra earthquake was so severe
The earthquake, measuring magnitude 9.2, and the subsequent tsunami, devastated coastal communities of the Indian Ocean, killing over 250,000 people. Research into the earthquake was conducted during a scientific ocean
A new way to slow cancer cell growth
Cancer: The Cell Cycle Gone Wrong All cells go through the “cell cycle,” a series of events that culminate in orderly cell growth and division. In cancer, the cell cycle
Viral protein may help chickenpox virus spread within the body
The findings, presented by Víctor González-Motos of Hannover Medical School, Germany, and colleagues, may provide new insight into the poorly understood mechanism by which VZV spreads after initial infection in
Mountain honey bees have ancient adaptation for high-altitude foraging
Honey bees living in the mountain forests of East Africa look and behave differently from bees inhabiting the surrounding lowland savannahs. Mountain bees are larger, darker and less aggressive than
Tiny shells indicate big changes to global carbon cycle
For the study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists raised foraminifera — single-celled organisms about the size of a grain of sand — at the UC Davis Bodega Marine
The ‘ideal’ teacher? It’s all in your mind
Their initial conclusions? That our understanding of the “best” and “worst” is predicated on personal educational values — and, possibly, our understanding of gender. “We tend to think in terms
Changing climate could have devastating impact on forest carbon storage
The study, “Potential decline in carbon carrying capacity under projected climate-wildfire interactions in the Sierra Nevada,” published this week in Scientific Reports, shows another facet of the impact current human-made
Government transparency limited when it comes to America’s conserved private lands
A new study led by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison examined why private-land conservation data is sometimes inaccessible and found that limited capacity within some federal agencies as well
Multiscale modeling reveals key events during early atherosclerotic plaque development
Atherosclerosis is a form of vascular disease that can result in heart attacks, strokes and gangrene by causing the thickening of artery walls and then narrowing of the arteries themselves
Extreme Jupiter weather and magnetic fields
The astronomers from the University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, led by the UK science lead for the Juno mission, have led three papers and contributed to four papers in
‘Drastically’ higher resolution to your TV and smartphone
Video screens are made up of hundreds of thousands of pixels that display different colors to form the images. With current technology, each of these pixels contain three subpixels —
