Astronomy & Astrophysics 101: Jupiter
Hubble’s 2021 images of Jupiter track the ever-changing landscape of its turbulent atmosphere, where several new storms are making their mark. Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (NASA-GSFC), and M. H....
Science Made Simple: What is Systems Biology?
By U.S. Department of Energy May 8, 2022Systems biology studies how different living organisms at many scales interact.Microbes, plants, animals, and entire ecosystems all play individual roles in the natural...
Intelligent AI-Empowered Metasurface Could Revolutionize Our Lives
The intelligent metasurface, AI-empowered artificial material, is a smart platform enabling various functions such as data mining, communication, energy harvest, and sensing by directly processing illuminated information-carrying waves on the...
Land-Building Marsh Plants Are Champions of Carbon Capture
Acre for acre, a salt marsh like this one in the Netherlands’ Western Scheldt estuary, stores five times more carbon than a forest. Credit: Edwin PareeWetlands are Earth’s most efficient...
Crew-3 Astronauts Return to Earth, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, Black Holes
From left to right, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthais Maurer, NASA astronauts Tom Marshburn, Raja Chari, and Kayla Barron, are seen inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard...
Splashdown! NASA SpaceX Crew-3 Astronauts Safely Return to Earth
Parachutes slow the descent of the Dragon Endurance spacecraft carrying NASA and ESA astronauts from the SpaceX Crew-3 mission. Credit: NASANASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts aboard the Dragon Endurance spacecraft safely...
Plug-and-Play Human Organ-on-a-Chip Can Be Customized to the Patient
The new multi-organ chip has the size of a glass microscope slide and allows the culture of up to four human engineered tissues, whose location and number can be tailored...
Scientists “Magically” Mine Metals From Water
PNNL chemical engineer Jian Liu observes laboratory equipment used to extract rare earth elements from various water sources. This magnetic separation loop system works in tandem with tiny, magnetic particles...
What is NASA’s CAPSTONE Mission?
The CAPSTONE mission is planned for launch no earlier than May 2022. Rocket Lab’s Photon satellite bus will deliver CAPSTONE into a trajectory toward the Moon. Credit: Illustration by NASA/Daniel...
Clasper Appendages Discovered in Mid-Cambrian Trilobite Reveal Mating Behavior Secrets
By Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology May 6, 2022Artistic reconstruction of mating position in Olenoides serratus. Credit: Holly SullivanFossils can tell scientists a lot about an animal...