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Space

Astronomers point at black holes for dark energy ejection

Amit Malewar

Astronomers at the University of Michigan could have found evidence linking dark energy—a mysterious energy that drives the exponential expansion of the universe—with black...

ew Study Reveals Why Post-Pandemic Worship Attendance Struggles to Rebound: Familiarity Breeds Blessings
Social Science

Study finds immediate benefit to Churchgoers

Editorial Team

See You Sunday?

An anaerobic digester used by the city of Ames' Water Pollution Control Facility. One of two recent feasibility studies by an Iowa State University research team exploring using prairie grass to make biofuels modeled an expanded network of anaerobic digesters in Ames.
Technology

Researchers study how to efficiently turn harvested grass into energy

Ashwini Sakharkar

Exploring the win-win potential of grass-powered energy production.

Astronomers have discovered the extreme orbit of an exoplanet that’s on its way to becoming a hot Jupiter.
Space

WIYN 3.5-meter telescope discovers extreme orbit of a rare exoplanet

Amit Malewar

The orbit holds clues to the formation history and future trajectories of high-mass gas giants.

Warm Gas-Giant Exoplanet WASP-107 b (Artist’s Concept)
Space

Exploring the mysterious case of the Inflated Exoplanet

Amit Malewar

Webb cracks case of inflated exoplanet

NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is shown in a clean room at the Astrotech Space Operations facility near the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Dec. 8, 2022. DSOC’s gold-capped flight laser transceiver can be seen, near center, attached to the spacecraft.
Space

NASA’s laser communications demo transmits data over 140 million miles

Amit Malewar

Deep Space Optical Communications technology demonstration continues to break records.

Artist impression of ultra fluffy gas giant planet orbiting a red dwarf star
Space

Astronomers observed an unusual Jupiter-like planet orbiting a cool red dwarf star

Editorial Team

'Marshmallow' World Orbiting a Cool Red Dwarf Star

Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption
Science

Tonga volcano eruption was among the most powerful ever observed

Pranjal Malewar

The eruption triggered atmospheric gravity waves reaching the edge of space.

Cornell researchers have successfully trained (from left to right) a computer speaker, a simple electronic circuit and a laser to perform machine-learning computations.
Physics

Harnessing physical systems to perform computation more efficiently

Amit Malewar

Physical neural networks have the potential to perform machine learning faster.

The "map" of the electrons
Quantum Computing

Scientists identified composite material that could integrate quantum devices into semiconductor

Pranjal Malewar

Semiconductors reach the quantum world.

Searching in the universe for signs of technological civilizations
Space

Searching for signs of technological civilizations in the universe

Amit Malewar

Life appears in many forms, and scientists believe that the technosignatures identifiable on Earth will also be identifiable in some fashion outside of the...

A simplified view of the gallium nitride-based resonant tunneling diode developed at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Electronic Science and Technology Division and its performance characteristics. NRL researchers anticipate this RTD will enable technologies beyond 5G and created a process to deliver manufacturing yield of approximately 90%. NRL graphic by Tyler Growden.
Technology

Scientists developed electronic diodes beyond 5G performance

Amit Malewar

David Storm, a research physicist, and Tyler Growden, an electrical engineer in collaboration with the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, have developed new gallium nitride-based...

Researchers work on the cryostat for the CUORE experiment. (Credit: CUORE Collaboration)
Science

How the matter was created in the universe?

Amit Malewar

Standard double-beta decay is a proven particle process. Two neutrons, which are uncharged particles in the nucleus of an atom, transform into two protons...

Indian flying fox (Photo: Ausraful Islam)
Science

AI to determine Bat species believed to transmit Nipah virus to humans

Dinesh C Sharma

Nipah, a deadly virus responsible for recent Nipah outbreak in Kerala following one that occurred in 2018, generally transmitted to human from fruits or...

New instrument helps scientists see what they couldn't see before
Technology

New instrument helps scientists see what they couldn’t see before

Amit Malewar

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have to build a new custom-instrument that enables scientists to glimpse moment-by-moment changes in materials on...

brain, nerves
Health

Changing size of neurons could highlight new treatments for motor neurone disease

Pranjal Malewar

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is correlated with the cell's excitability and function and has been posited as a plastic property that changes during cellular...

Origami concepts in relation to science, physics, mathematics and engineering to create new solutions for the Air Force
Technology

Origami might be critical to complex Air Force needs

Amit Malewar

Origami, the specialty of paper collapsing, has charmed ages of groups of onlookers over the globe, as craftsmen create complex, fascinating figures and questions...

New exotic phenomena detected in photonic crystals
Science

New exotic phenomena detected in photonic crystals

Amit Malewar

Topological impacts, for example, those found in gems whose surfaces direct power while their mass does not, has been an energizing point of material...

image showing tabby star
Space

Alien Megastructure not the cause of dimming of the ‘Most Mysterious Star in the Universe’

Amit Malewar

This latest research rules out alien megastructures, and raises the plausibility of other phenomena being behind the dimming.

Researchers Shed Light on Formation of Black Holes and Galaxies
Space

Researchers Shed Light on Formation of Black Holes and Galaxies

Amit Malewar

Scientists at the University of California San Diego have shed light on the formation of supermassive black holes and galaxies by highlighting the physics surrounding the...

Recent Stories

Scientists use light to control how cells move and shape themselves

Science

People with fatty liver disease have almost twice the mortality rate

Health

Galactic Giants: How black hole radiation might help life thrive

Space

The vast majority of the galaxies rotate in the same direction

Space

An experimental drug shows promise in lowering the risk of Alzheimer’s dementia

Neuroscience