Dim objects called brown dwarfs, less massive than the Sun but more massive than Jupiter, have powerful winds and clouds — specifically, hot patchy clouds made of iron droplets and silicate dust. Scientists recently realized these giant clouds can move and thicken or thin surprisingly rapidly, in less than an […]
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Your dollars go a lot further in some states than others. The Tax Foundation released the latest iteration of its map showing the relative value of $100 in every state compared with the national average using data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis. In more expensive states like California, you can afford […]
View photos solar eclipse highlights thumbnails 01 More (In the path of totality, it looked like nighttime at the solar eclipse’s peak.Gene Kim) I watched the solar eclipse on my parents’ farm in Wisconsin and got a front-row seat to wacky animal behavior during the celestial event of the century. […]
Maurice Savage/Alamy Stock Photo It’s the nightmare scenario: a consumer drone flying into a jet engine. But no one has actually done the tests that could reveal what would happen and inform safety. That’s strange, given the increasing risk of such an incident. We need to know if it could […]
Physicists throw new light on the interaction between the planet Mars and supersonic particles in the solar wind.
A sophisticated mechanism that allows plant roots to quickly respond to changes in soil conditions has been identified by an international research team.
Mechanical loading is required for creating cartilage that is then turned to bone; however, little is known about cartilage development in the absence of gravity. Now, bioengineers have determined that microgravity may inhibit cartilage formation. Findings reveal that fracture healing for astronauts in space, as well as patients on bed […]
Tailed by a SQUID Snaprender/Alamy Stock Photo By David Hambling On 21 June, the Chinese Academy of Sciences hailed a breakthrough – a major upgrade to a kind of quantum device that measures magnetic fields. The announcement vanished after a journalist pointed out the invention’s potential military implications: it could help China […]