3 Following the highly successful achievements of Booster 11 and Ship 29 on SpaceX’s Starship Flight 4, engineers are already applying lessons learned from the mission ahead of the next flight, including large-scale changes to the Thermal Protection System (TPS). . Although Elon Musk thinks the next flight is a month away, the pairing of […]
Human technology such as cell phones and broadcast towers constantly radiate radio waves ROOMand astronomers estimate that this telltale sign of humanity has been included 75 nearby star systems, signaling to any alert alien civilization that Earth hosts a technologically advanced species. And while scientists have been listening to the incessant radio chatter from our
Ed Stone, the scientist who led NASA’s Voyager breakthrough mission to the outer planets for 50 years and directed the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when it landed its first rover on Mars, died Tuesday. He was 88. A physicist who got in on the ground floor of space exploration, Stone played a leading role in NASA’s
As the world turns to green hydrogen and other renewable energy sources, scientists have discovered that archaea – the third form of life after bacteria and eukaryotes – have been producing energy using hydrogen gas and ‘ultraminimal’ enzymes for billions of years. Specifically, the international team of researchers found that at least nine phyla of
MIT faculty members Nancy Kanwisher, Robert Langer and Sara Seager are among eight researchers worldwide receiving this year’s Kavli Prizes. A partnership between the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research and the Kavli Foundation, the Kavli Prizes are awarded every two years to “honour scientists for discoveries in
Laura Schulz has spent her career trying to unravel one of the deepest human mysteries: how children think and learn. Earlier this year, the MIT cognitive psychologist found herself perplexed by the struggles of her latest test subject. The study participant amazed him by having a fresh conversation, deftly explaining complex concepts. A series of
Humanity has lost an interstellar pioneer. Ed Stone, who served as project scientist for NASA’s groundbreaking Voyager mission from 1972 to 2022, died on Sunday (June 9) at the age of 88. “Ed Stone was a pioneer who dared great things in space. He was a dear friend to all who knew him and a
An illustration of electron-phonon coupling between valence and conduction states in real-time and real-space. Credit: Cmelni/Wikimedia Commons. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Electron_Phonon_Coupling_Between_Valence_and_Conduction_States.png. A new study published in Nature Physics presents a theory of electron-phonon coupling that is influenced by the quantum geometry of electronic wave functions. The movement of electrons in a lattice and their interactions with lattice vibrations
Summary: Mental maps in the brain are activated when we think about sequences of experiences, even without physical movement. In an animal study, they found that the entorhinal cortex contains a cognitive map of experiences, which is activated during mental simulation. This is the first study to show the cellular basis of mental simulation in
Archival optical image (at 468 nm wavelength) of NGC 5128 taken with the UK Schmidt telescope superimposed on the location of the two fields studied. The red cross indicates the center of NGC 5128. The red circles represent the locations of LPVs selected from the ISAAC Ks-band data. Credit: Aghdam et al., 2024. Using the