Caldwell 60/61. Credit: NASA This Hubble image shows two galaxies locked in a fateful embrace. Caldwell 60 (NGC 4038) and Caldwell 61 (NGC 4039) are…
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Two laboratory solar cell samples, one (right) with a protective lead-absorbing film applied to the backside. Credit: Northern Illinois University Researchers at Northern Illinois University…
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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows…
Craspedotropis gretathunbergae. Credit: Taxon Expeditions A new to science species of land snail was discovered by a group of citizen scientists working together with scientists…
Financial services startups raised less money in 2019 than they did in 2018 as VC firms looked to back late stage firms and focused on…
At times, it can be hard to tell exactly who “Locke & Key” was made for. Adapted from a comic book series written by Joe…
An illustration of a concept for a possible wind-powered Venus rover. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, under a grant from the…
There’s no evidence yet that the new coronavirus spreads through the air – but it’s still possible. A recent announcement by a Chinese health official…
As Samsung (re)unveiled its clamshell folding phone last week, I kept seeing the same question pop up amongst my social circles: why? I was wondering…
Using dental microwear texture analysis on from a 28,500-year-old fossil site, researchers found evidence of of early-stage domestication of dogs. Analysis of Paleolithic-era teeth from…
This image shows atomically thin semiconductor wafers (MoS2 monolayers, lateral dimension of each panel ~ 1cm, wafer thickness of only ~0.7 nm). We obtained these…
Using machine learning, a Stanford-led research team has slashed battery testing times – a key barrier to longer-lasting, faster-charging batteries for electric vehicles. Credit: Cube3D…
Excerpted from “Food Fix,” copyright 2019 by Mark Hyman M.D. Used with permission of Little, Brown and Company, New York. All rights reserved. In a room full…
(Click image for full view.) Houston, Texas, US, is featured in this composite image, captured on June 21, 2019, by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission. The…
In the wake of Japan’s last typhoon season, floating PV companies are best advised to walk across a stone bridge after hitting it. It’s a…
Cell therapies hold great promise for revolutionizing the treatment of cancers and autoimmune diseases. But this multibillion-dollar industry requires long-term storage of cells at super-cold…
Penn State-led near-infrared spectrograph recently installed on the 10m Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in Texas. Credit: Ethan Tweedie Photography A signal originally detected by…
A study by researchers at Brown University has found a quarter of posts about climate change on Twitter were written by bots. Bots are computer…
Astronaut Michael Foale sampling the potable water delivery system from the International Space Station. Microbes that likely colonized the water dispenser before takeoff are still…