Pluto just 4 weeks, 20 million miles away for spacecraft
This image made available by NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute on June 11, 2015 shows four computer-enhanced views of Pluto, taken...
Pluto at Last! NASA Spacecraft Arrives for Dwarf Planet Close-Up Tuesday
On Tuesday morning (July 14) — nine and a half years after launching, and a quarter-century after its mission began to take shape — NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will perform histor...
New Horizons only one year from Pluto (w/ Video)
Credit: NASA In July 2015, NASA will discover a new world. On July 14th, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will make a close flyby of that distant world. At closest approach in J...
NASA Spacecraft Wakes Up as It Approaches Pluto
A NASA spacecraft has emerged from hibernation in preparation for completing its nine-year, 2.9-billion mile journey to observe Pluto from up close, the space agency said. Sending it...
Ancient Jellies Had Spiny Skeletons, No Tentacles
[See Images of the Ancient Jellies & Other Wacky Cambrian Creatures] Some of the fossils in the study are new to science, while others were originally described years ago and re...
ALMA pinpoints Pluto to help guide NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft
Animated image of ALMA data showing the motion of the moon Charon around the icy dwarf planet Pluto. Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) To prepare for this first TCM, astronomers need...
Why the Sky Enchants Us: Our Longing for Transcendence and How Myths Elevate Human Life
One of the most fascinating expressions of mythmaking in our search for meaning has to do with the sky, the sweeping mystery of which has enchanted human beings since the dawn of our...
Training Schrodinger’s cat: Controlling the quantum properties of light
The cat comes from the similarity of such a state with a Schrödinger cat state of light: a superposition between two classical states of light. Recently, scientists at Ecole Normale ...
Three-year ocean voyage discovered thousands of new, unfamiliar viruses
Over the course of three and a half years, researchers traveled the world in a boat named Tara, gathering genetic information belonging to more than 35,000 plankton species that were...
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Tara Oceans expedition yields treasure trove of plankton data
This news release is available in Japanese. In five related reports in this issue of the journal Science, a multinational team of researchers who spent three and a half years samplin...
Researchers discover deepest high-temperature hydrothermal vents in Pacific Ocean
These delicate carbonate spires formed at an active vent site in the newly discovered Pescadero Basin hydrothermal field. They are also the only vents in the Pacific known to emit su...
Quantum physics provides startling insights into biological processes
Researchers in the PAPETS project are exploring this and other phenomena on the frontier between biology and quantum physics. Quantum ‘superposition’ makes photosynthesis more effici...
Planktonic world: First scientific results from the Tara Oceans expedition
How do planktonic organisms interact? Thanks to novel computer models, the researchers were able to predict how these diverse planktonic organisms interact. This map is a first step ...
MBARI researchers discover deepest high-temperature hydrothermal vents in Pacific Ocean
They are also the only vents in the Pacific known to emit superheated fluids rich in both carbonate minerals and hydrocarbons. The vents have been colonized by dense communities of t...
Why the Sky Enchants Us: Our Longing for Transcendence and How Myths Elevate Human Life
One of the most fascinating expressions of mythmaking in our search for meaning has to do with the sky, the sweeping mystery of which has enchanted human beings since the dawn of our...
What Trees Teach Us About Human Nature, Relationships, and the Secret to Lasting Love: Wisdom from a 17th-Century Gardener
Since the dawn of time, trees — the oldest living things in our world — have been our silent companions, which we’ve transmuted into the myths and metaphors through which we make sen...
The Dalai Lama’s Daily Routine and Information Diet
And yet the Dalai Lama approaches his information diet like he does his meditation — as a deliberate practice. At the heart of this message is a larger testament to the most essentia...
In Photos: The World’s Most Efficient Pollinators
(Read the full story on the pollinators’ decline) Pollinators at risk Bumblebees evolved about 35 million years ago in cooler climates. Shrinking range In the new study, researche...
Research links two millennia of cyclones, floods, El Nino
The article, Extreme rainfall activity in the Australian tropics reflects changes in the El Niño/Southern Oscillation over the last two millennia, presents a precisely dated stalagmi...
Plans for world’s first self-sufficient floating city advance to next phase
The Seasteading Institute is on target to launch the world’s first floating city by 2020. The Floating City Project is set to have political autonomy, although the concept involves a...
Frequency of tornadoes, hail linked to El Nino, La Nina
A new study links the frequency of tornadoes and hailstorms in parts of the southern United States to ENSO, a cyclic temperature pattern in the Pacific Ocean. Now, a new study shows ...
El Nino will be ‘substantial’ warn Australian scientists
El Nino weather phenomenon, which can spark deadly and costly climate extremes, is underway in the tropical Pacific for first time in five years, according to Australia’s Bureau of M...
Deciphering clues to prehistoric climate changes locked in cave deposits
Variations in the thickness of the layers is determined by a combination of the amount of water seeping into the cave and the concentration of carbon dioxide in the cave’s atmosphere...
Quantum pigeonholes are not paradoxical after all, say physicists – Physics World
Peak pigeon: Calculations of the arrival patterns for one electron trajectory made at four different interaction strengths (d). When all three electrons are detected, these tiny defl...