New research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggests that these unusual “boomerang” earthquakes may not be as rare or
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft approaches the International Space Station in June 2024 during a mission that NASA now classifies as its most serious “Type A mishap” due to thruster failures and leadership failures.
Scientists from Germany’s Max Planck Institute have discovered that a giant virus called mimivirus hijacks host cells’ protein-making machinery to multiply up to 100,000 times faster. The virus makes a complex of three proteins that takes over ribosomes, forcing cells to produce viral proteins instead of their own. Published in Cell on February 17, this is the first experimental evidence that viruses can co-opt a system typically associated with cellular life.
After decades of research, scientists have solved the mystery of a strange and powerful gravity anomaly beneath Antarctica, a region
In a striking fusion of mathematics and artificial intelligence, Chinese researchers made significant progress on the 300-year-old kissing number problem.
SpaceX unveiled the Space Situational Awareness (SSA) system which leverages its vast Starlink satellite constellation to deliver near-real-time orbital tracking
The US Department of Defense is turning to the commercial space sector for a new generation of surveillance spacecraft capable
The Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, once synonymous with nuclear catastrophe, has become an unlikely refuge for one of the world’s rarest
Microsoft researchers have created a glass data storage system that can remain readable for 10,000 years. The method uses laser pulses to create tiny deformations inside borosilicate glass, storing 4.8 terabytes of data on a coaster-sized square. Unlike magnetic storage that degrades in a decade, this immutable glass needs no maintenance and could transform how data centers archive critical information.
German researchers at TUM, LMU, and Max Planck Institutes have captured a rare supernova that appears five times in the sky due to gravitational lensing. The discovery, nicknamed SN Winny, offers a new way to measure the universe’s expansion rate and could help resolve the long-standing Hubble tension between different measurement methods.
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