The Largest Digital Camera In The World Takes Shape
Astronomers in California are building the largest digital camera in the world. It will go on a giant telescope taking shape in Chile called the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. LSST is different from...
View ArticleWATCH: What Happens When 2 Neutron Stars Collide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cADvHl3vDA An international team of astronomers has concluded that when it comes to theories about colliding neutron stars, Einstein got it right. Everybody else, not...
View ArticleSuper Sensitive Sensor Sees What You Can't
A team of engineers at Dartmouth College has invented a semiconductor chip that could someday give the camera in your phone the kind of vision even a superhero would envy. The new technology comes from...
View ArticleStephen Hawking, Who Awed Both Scientists And The Public, Dies
There aren't very many scientists who achieved rock star status. Stephen Hawking, who has died at the age of 76, family members told British media early Wednesday, was definitely a contender. "He was a...
View ArticleLive High Definition Video From Mars? NASA Is Getting Ready
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxPbnFc7iU8 Nothing conveys the excitement of space exploration like pictures from another planet. Now NASA is planning to go one better than pictures. The space agency...
View ArticleNASA Hopes Supersonic X Plane Will Deliver Less Bang For The Buck
NASA is building a new X plane with the goal of deadening the loud thunderclap that jets make when they travel faster than sound. Those noisy sonic booms are one of the reasons supersonic planes aren't...
View ArticleReally Random Numbers
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit NOEL KING, HOST: A team of physicists has come up with a way to secure communications over the Internet, which is not a small deal in this day and age. Their...
View ArticleBetting On Artificial Intelligence To Guide Earthquake Response
A startup company in California is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to advise fire departments about how to plan for earthquakes and respond to them. The company, One Concern, hopes...
View ArticleNASA Mars Mission Faces Setback After Heat Shield Cracks Under Pressure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s A critical part of NASA's next $2 billion rover mission to Mars broke during testing earlier this month. The Mars 2020 mission's heat shield was undergoing...
View ArticleExperimental Lung Treatment Could Make Breathing Easier
An engineer in California has an invention that she hopes will someday help people with damaged lungs breathe easier. Stanford University's Annelise Baron has developed a synthetic version of something...
View ArticleNASA Is Heading Back To Mars To Peer Inside The Red Planet
NASA is heading back to Mars. If all goes well, a two-stage Atlas V 401 will lift off from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on Saturday morning. Onboard will be a lander named InSight, an $813.8...
View ArticleIcy Moon Of Jupiter Spews Water Plumes Into Space
Scientists have new evidence that there are plumes of water erupting from the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa — plumes that could, maybe, possibly contain signs of life. The evidence comes from...
View ArticleHow A Cheap Magnet Might Help Detect Malaria
Each year, malaria kills about half a million people around the world. Health officials say a fast, cheap, accurate way to test for people infected with the malaria parasite would be extremely helpful...
View ArticleNASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Chemical Building Blocks For Life On Mars
For the first time, scientists say they have clear evidence that the chemical building blocks of life exist on Mars. What they can't say yet is whether there is, or ever was, life on the Red Planet....
View ArticleGiant Dust Storm On Mars Threatening To End NASA's Opportunity Rover
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A giant dust storm on Mars is threatening to end the mission of a NASA rover. The rover called Opportunity depends on solar panels to charge...
View ArticleA 4 Billion Light-Year Journey Ends At The South Pole
Scientists for the first time have been able to pinpoint the source of an extremely powerful version of a neutrino, a ghostly particle that can travel virtually unimpeded through space. It's an...
View ArticleGalileo Would Be Stunned: Jupiter Now Has 79 Moons
More than 400 years after Galileo Galilei discovered the first of Jupiter's moons, astronomers have found a dozen more — including one they've dubbed "oddball" — orbiting the planet. That brings the...
View ArticlePhysicists Go Small: Let's Put A Particle Accelerator On A Chip
When people think of particle accelerators, they tend to think of giant structures: tunnels many miles long that electrons and protons race through at tremendous speeds, packing enormous energy. But...
View ArticleUnderground Lake Found On Mars Beneath A Mile Of Ice
An Italian team of scientists says it has strong evidence of a subsurface lake of liquid water on Mars. It's a discovery that adds to the speculation that there could once have been life on Mars — and...
View ArticleNeed To Track A Submarine? A Harbor Seal Can Show You How
Using lessons learned from harbor seals and artificial intelligence, engineers in California may be on to a new way to track enemy submarines. The idea started with research published in 2001 on the...
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