Researchers have proposed a new method for finding Earth-like planets and they anticipate that the number will be in the order of 100 billion. The strategy uses a technique called gravitational microlensing, currently used by a Japan-New Zealand collaboration.Read More…
From aboard the International Space Station, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer has seen what may be our first glimpse of dark matterRead More…
Climate change looks far more threatening than it did six years ago as the world marches toward a warming of 4 degrees Celsius higher by the end of the century compared to the preindustrial era, said Lord Nicholas Stern, a professor of economics and chairman of the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. [More] Read More…
Children with autism have increased levels of genetic change in regions of the genome prone to DNA rearrangements, so called “hotspots,” according to a new research discovery. The research has relevance in a vigorous ongoing debate in the research community about the degree of genetic versus environmental contributions to autism.Read More…
A NACA staff testing the chemical properties of substances at the Aircraft Engine Research Laboratory.Read More…
A new report looked at the vulnerability of 54 breeding bird species to climate change impacts occurring by the year 2050 in Arctic Alaska. The assessment found that two species, the gyrfalcon and common eider are likely to be “highly” vulnerable, while seven other species would be “moderately” vulnerable to anticipated impacts. Five species are likely to increase in number and benefit from a warming climate.Read More…
Expectations for marriage come from many places–family life, past relationships, observations of other married couples. Now a study published last September in the journal Mass Communication and Society finds that television may also affect how we feel about marriage and our spouse. [More] Read More…
New supercomputer simulations show how spiral galaxies like the Milky Way get, and keep, their skinny, star-studded arms.Read More…
The best map yet of light from the infant universe seems to rule out the strange motion of galaxy clusters, knocking down one sign of a multiverseRead More…
Arrest comes after experimental anticancer compound goes missingRead More…