Abu Dhabi, May 21 – The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) opened its thirty-first Council meeting on Wednesday at its headquarters in Abu Dhabi, with more than 300 government representatives attending in person and online.…
Rosetta’s big day in the Sun
[caption id="attachment_5668" align="alignnone" width="625"] Comet southern hemisphere[/caption] ESA’s Rosetta today witnessed Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko making its closest approach to the Sun. The exact moment of perihelion occurred at 02:03 GMT this morning when the comet came…
The ALICE experiment at CERN makes precise comparison…
[caption id="attachment_5665" align="alignnone" width="842"] Measurements of energy loss in the time-projection chamber enable the ALICE experiment to identify antinuclei (upper curves on the left) and nuclei (upper curves on the right) produced in the lead-ion…
Test mirror segments at James Webb Space Telescope
[caption id="attachment_5662" align="alignnone" width="700"] Test mirror segments for the James Webb Space Telescope.NASA/C. Gunn[/caption] The Andromeda galaxy is one of the most distant objects that we can see in the night sky with the naked…
Bold new brain research in neuroengineering, brain-inspired design,…
$13.1 million for 16 new awards part of NSF's support for integrative, fundamental brain research and the BRAIN Initiative [caption id="attachment_5658" align="alignright" width="300"] Much of how brain cells connect to create meaningful networks a mystery.…