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NASA's EUNIS Mission: Six Minutes in the Life of the Sun
December 11, 2012 — In December, a NASA mission to study the sun will make its third launch into space for a six-minute flight to gather information about the way material roils through the sun's atmosphere, sometimes ... > full story -
Black Holes Have Properties That Resemble Dynamics of Both Solids and Liquids
December 11, 2012 — Black holes are surrounded by many mysteries, but now researchers have come up with new groundbreaking theories that can explain several of their properties. The research shows that black holes have ... > full story -
Airborne Scientists Search Distant Stars for Complex Organic Molecules
December 10, 2012 — A team of astrobiology researchers – including two from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – will use a series of nighttime flights on an airborne observatory to search newly born stars for ... > full story -
Do We Live in a Computer Simulation Run by Our Descendants? Researchers Say Idea Can Be Tested
December 10, 2012 — A decade ago, a British philosopher put forth the possibility that our universe might be a computer simulation run by our descendants. Now, physicists have come up with a potential test to see if the ... > full story -
Structure of Carbon's 'Hoyle State' Revealed
December 10, 2012 — A researcher has taken a "snapshot" of the way particles combine to form carbon-12, the element that makes all life on Earth possible. And the picture looks like a bent ... > full story -
Hypergiant Star Amazes for 30 Years
December 9, 2012 — Astronomers have published the results of a 30-year study of an extraordinary hypergiant star. They have found that the surface temperature of the super-luminous star HR 8752 increased by about 3000 ... > full story -
New Chemical Reaction Could Explain How Stars Form, Evolve, and Eventually Die
December 7, 2012 — Researchers have discovered a molecular-level interaction that science had puzzled over for decades but had never seen. That discovery, it turns out, may redefine how science views chemical compound ... > full story -
X-Ray Vision Can Reveal Moment of Birth of Violent Supernovae
December 7, 2012 — Astronomers have uncovered new evidence that suggests that X-ray detectors in space could be the first to witness new supernovae that signal the death of massive ... > full story -
Little Telescope Spies Gigantic Galaxy Clusters
December 6, 2012 — Our solar system, with its colorful collection of planets, asteroids and comets, is a fleck in the grander cosmos. Hundreds of billions of solar systems are thought to reside in our Milky Way galaxy, ... > full story -
Seeing in Color at the Nanoscale: Scientists Develop a New Nanotech Tool to Probe Solar-Energy Conversion
December 6, 2012 — If nanoscience were television, we'd be in the 1950s. Although scientists can make and manipulate nanoscale objects with increasingly awesome control, they are limited to black-and-white imagery for ... > full story
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