deepai Gravity feels reliable — stable and consistent enough to count on. But reality is far stranger than our intuition. In truth, the strength of gravity varies over the Earth’s surface. And it is weakest…
NASA’s Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns on a Super-Earth
[caption id="attachment_8245" align="alignnone" width="985"] The varying brightness of an exoplanet called 55 Cancri e is shown in this plot of infrared data captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Cambridge[/caption] Observations from NASA's Spitzer…
Engineering Black Gold, as Light as the Bones…
A new research affiliated with UNIST, Korea, suggests a new material that is more solid and 30% lighter than standard gold. [caption id="attachment_8240" align="alignright" width="300"] A research team developed the nanoporous structure after strengthening with…
NASA Selects Instrument Team to Build Next-Gen Planet…
[caption id="attachment_8237" align="alignnone" width="985"] The NEID instrument, to be completed in 2019, will be installed on the 3.5-meter WIYN telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, and detect exoplanets by measuring the miniscule…
How to make metal alloys that stand up…
New approach to preventing embrittlement could be useful in nuclear reactors. [caption id="attachment_8233" align="alignnone" width="639"] An artist’s rendering of nuclear fuel rods in front of a colorful computational valley predicted for alloying compositions.Image: Mostafa Youssef…