Artist’s impression of WASP b and its staff. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA and J. Olmsted (STScI) Since the first planet orbiting a star other than the sun was discovered in 1995, we’ve come to realize that planets and planetary systems are more diverse than we ever imagined. Such distant worlds, exoplanets, give us the opportunity …
New research has revealed how genetic changes that slowly accumulate in blood stem cells throughout life are likely to be responsible for the dramatic change in blood production after age 70. The study, led by scientists from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and collaborators, is published today (June 1) in the …
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A researcher from Abu Dhabi has spoken of her excitement after helping shed new light on a distant planet that has striking parallels to Earth, despite its dwarfed size. A team of astrophysicists, including Dr Jasmina Blecic of New York University Abu Dhabi, have revealed in much greater detail what is in Wasp-39b’s atmosphere. This …
What does the Moon have to do with our quest to understand the beginnings of our Universe? Not much, you might think, given that the Moon is about 4.5 billion years old, while the Universe is said to be 13.8 billion years old. But the Moon has an important role to play in a branch …
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The researchers created a grid of quantum dots (center) ranging from one to three phosphorus atoms deposited on a plane embedded in silicon and studied the properties of electrons injected into the grid. Credit: Wang et al/NIST Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have created grids of tiny clusters of atoms …
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The Cone Nebula is part of a star-forming region of space, NGC 2264, about 2500 light-years away. Its pillar-like appearance is a perfect example of the shapes that can grow in giant clouds of cold molecular gas and dust, known to create new stars. This spectacular new view of the nebula was captured with the …
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The green sign advertised Siskiyou Peak as the highest point on I-5, which implied that the entire west coast of North America was mine. Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of universal gravitation claimed that if air drag could be eliminated along with all friction from tires and ball bearings, I could glide to Tacoma without gas. …
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Thanks to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, three different moments of a distant supernova explosion have been captured in a single snapshot by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The light from the supernova, located behind the galaxy cluster Abell 370, was multiplied by the immense gravity of the cluster. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Wenlei Chen (UMN), …
