The act of making a choice changes how we feel about our options. Credit: Will Kirk/Johns Hopkins University When a baby reaches for one stuffed…
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Planetary nebula NGC 2440’s central star, HD62166, is possibly the hottest known white dwarf star discovered yet. White dwarfs exhibit puzzling quantum phenomena: As they…
An artist’s concept from 1969 depicts a lunar module descending to the Moon’s surface. Because of the Moon’s very thin atmosphere, the exhaust expands significantly…
As dying stars take their final few breaths of life, they gently sprinkle their ashes into the cosmos through the magnificent planetary nebulae. These ashes,…
Microorganisms in green colonize gypsum rock to extract water from it. Johns Hopkins and UCI researchers ran lab experiments to understand the mechanisms of survival…
Analysis shows how extensive testing and contact tracing stopped outbreak in South Chinese megacity. The extensive use of epidemiological surveillance, isolation of infected patients, and…
For the JHU team’s experiment, increased force (arrow pointing down) applied on the material led to more electrical charges, and thus, more mineralization. Credit: Pam…
They say variety is the spice of life, and now new discoveries from Johns Hopkins researchers suggest that a certain elemental ‘variety’—sulfur—is indeed a ‘spice’…
Johns Hopkins University’s Terradynamics Lab created this snake robot to mimic its animal counterpart. Credit: JHU/Will Kirk Snakes live in diverse environments ranging from unbearably…
A new mathematical model suggests dark matter may have been produced before the Big Bang during cosmic inflation, when space was expanding rapidly. Researchers believe…
The wonders – and mysteries – of Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69 continue to multiply as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft beams home new images of…