MIT engineers develop a low-cost terahertz camera
Terahertz radiation, whose wavelengths lie between those of microwaves and visible light, can penetrate many nonmetallic materials and detect signatures of certain molecules.
These handy...
Tree rings reveal devastating radiation storms
A new study has shed new light on a mysterious, unpredictable and potentially devastating kind of astrophysical event.
A team led by Dr Benjamin Pope...
Scientists conduct the most precise accounting yet of dark energy and dark matter
Astrophysicists have performed a powerful new analysis that places the most precise limits yet on the composition and evolution of the universe.
With this analysis,...
Novel PET imaging tech can detect earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease
Memory problems are often one of the first signs of cognitive impairment related to Alzheimer's disease.
The decline in non-memory aspects of cognition, such as word-finding,...
NASA’s Hubble detects ultra-speedy jet blasting from star crash
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have made a unique measurement that indicates a jet, plowing through space at speeds greater than 99.97% the...
Scientists find black hole is ejecting material at half of light speed
Astronomers have observed a black hole burping up stellar remains years after it shredded and consumed the star.
In October 2018, a small star was...
Astronomers see tantalizing evidence for one of the first stars to form in the...
According to the predominant cosmological model, the first stars in the Universe formed roughly 100,000 years after the Big Bang.
Known as Population III stars,...
Scientists find first traces of the universe’s earliest stars
Astronomers may have discovered the ancient chemical remains of the first stars to light up the Universe.
Using an innovative analysis of a distant quasar...
Synthetic lava in the lab could help explore exoplanets
The exploration era for the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is getting hot – volcanically hot.
A multidisciplinary group of Cornell researchers has modeled...
Astronomers map distances to 56000 galaxies, largest-ever catalog
How old is our universe, and what is its size?
A team of researchers led by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa astronomers Brent Tully...