Saturday, April 20, 2024

Tech: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx begins asteroid operations campaign — (Report)

After an almost two-year journey, NASA's asteroid sampling spacecraft, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx), caught its first glimpse of...

Tech: They may be small, but CubeSats are mighty when it comes to affordably...

Only a few years ago, the astronomy and heliophysics communities were skeptical about whether CubeSats could reliably obtain scientific data. But these breadloaf-size...

Tech: POSTECH solves the durability issue of hydrogen cars

IMAGE: Applying the MIT phenomenon of W03 in normal operation results in an...

Tech: Researchers have combined two concepts that make the system as efficient as precious...

Fuel cells that work with the enzyme hydrogenase are, in principle, just as efficient as those that contain the expensive precious metal platinum...

Tech: Parker Solar Probe launches on historic journey to touch the sun — ...

Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA's Parker Solar Probe launched from Florida Sunday to begin its journey...

Tech: For UW physicists, the 2-D form of tungsten ditelluride is full of surprises...

The general public might think of the 21st century as an era of revolutionary technological platforms, such as smartphones or social media. But...

Tech: Mantle neon illuminates Earth’s formation — (Report)

The Earth formed relatively quickly from the cloud of dust and gas around the Sun, trapping water and gases in the planet's mantle,...

Tech: Copper-based alternative for next-generation electronics — (Report)

Japanese scientists have developed a technique to transform a copper-based substance into a material that mimics properties of precious and pricey metals, such...

Tech: Paradigm shift needed for designing tsunami-resistant bridges — (Report)

Researchers, including two Oregon State University scientists, argue in a new study that a paradigm shift is needed for assessing bridges' tsunami risk. The...

Tech: Dark matter is not made up of tiny black holes — (Report)

An international team of researchers has put a theory speculated by the late Stephen Hawking to its most rigorous test to date, and...

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