An undiscovered region of space called the “zone of avoidance” is the location of a galaxy cluster recently found by astronomers. About 10–20 percent of the night sky is blank, like a phantom zone, according to IFL Science. Its proximity ...
Leonid meteor shower on November 17th and 18th, 2022 The pinnacle of the Leonid meteor shower occurs in the hours a little before midnight on Thursday and continues into the early hours of Friday when the moon is not visible ...
In recent years, cutting-edge telescopes around the world have spotted hundreds of gold-rich stars. These rich in gold stars likely originated in progenitor galaxies, smaller galaxies that combined to become our Milky Way, as shown by the most detailed models ...
Using working memory is like being able to remember the directions someone just gave you on the spot. Researchers at MIT have discovered that short bursts of gamma frequency rhythms in the prefrontal cortex are responsible for the brain’s ability ...
For over two centuries, people everywhere have been dependent on fossil fuels as a concentrated source of energy. Convenient, energy-dense molecules packed with the fruits of photosynthesis over hundreds of millions of years have been put to use by our ...
On November 13th, CAPSTONE will arrive at the Moon and be the first spacecraft to join a novel, elongated orbit to aid NASA’s Artemis missions. The first CubeSat to reach and function on the Moon will be the 55-pound, Cislunar ...
Approximately 550 million years ago, at the end of the Ediacaran Period, the majority of species on Earth died out due to a decline in worldwide oxygen supply, according to a new study by geobiologists at Virginia Tech. This early ...
While Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity does a good job of explaining planetary and stellar gravity, its applicability is less clear on smaller scales. Gravity affects everything equally because everything has it. Despite being the most ubiquitous of the ...
A winery-dotted valley to the east of San Francisco holds one of the best prospects for a sustainable energy future. Here at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California is where you’ll find the National Ignition Facility (NIF). The same physics ...
Spatial crowding is a typical factor that plays a role in the identification of items in the periphery of the visual field. This phenomenon occurs when one item is crowded amid other things in space. In order to accurately evaluate ...