Researchers are developing a single injection that could help the heart heal after a heart attack, offering weeks of protection with one dose. The experimental therapy, led by scientists from Texas A&M University, Columbia University…
NASA’s Hubble Finds Extremely Distant Galaxy through Cosmic…
[caption id="attachment_724" align="aligncenter" width="673"] The mammoth galaxy cluster Abell 2744 is so massive that its powerful gravity bends the light from galaxies far behind it, making these otherwise unseen background objects appear larger and brighter…
Computing innovations for a sustainable society
NSF awards $12.5 million to advance the science of sustainability through innovations in computing and communication technologies [caption id="attachment_718" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Intertidal community at low tide in Yachats Bay, Oregon. The picture shows seastars (Pisaster…
Romania to shed new light on the atmosphere
[caption id="attachment_710" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Scattering light/ESA[/caption] ESA-- Romania is leading the way in an ambitious project to build an instrument to detect and monitor tiny particles suspended in the air. The new ‘lidar’– the first…
NASA Spacecraft Provides New Information About Sun’s Atmosphere
NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) has provided scientists with five new findings into how the sun’s atmosphere, or corona, is heated far hotter than its surface, what causes the sun’s constant outflow of particles…