Disciplined and observational study of the natural world including, but not limited to: Biology, Physics, Chemistry, and Earth Science.
A team of researchers from Caltech (California Institute of Technology) have developed a micro-sized laboratory capable of analyzing minute blood samples to determine the exact levels of red and white blood cells as well as other blood components. The research, ...
This magnificent picture is a composite of infrared and visible-light images taken from NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes and shows stars being created 1,500 light-years away from Earth in a cosmic cloud called the Orion nebula. The Orion nebula ...
This is a photograph with an aerial view of Cape Cod and “the Islands” from 220 miles above the earth. Visible are the entirety of “the Cape” and the islands of Martha’s Vineyard (left) and Nantucket (right), as well as ...
The PillCam Colon Video Capsule Endoscope by the Israeli company Given Imaging Ltd. will spare you that vital colonoscopy you’ve been putting off. Essentially a camera in a pill to photograph your insides, PillCam imaging is considered to be a ...
The image shows a typical solar flare from our sun, captured in September 2005 in the X-ray waveband by NASA’s TRACE satellite. A solar flare is an explosion on the Sun’s atmosphere that occurs when energy stored in twisted magnetic ...
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin announced yesterday (10.31.06) that Shuttle astronauts will make one final house-call to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope (HST) as part of a mission to extend and improve the observatory’s capabilities through the year 2013. This decision was ...
A team of scientists is currently working with NASA to develop a new form of space propulsion technology based on positrons. This revolutionary antimatter engine will require only a few milligrams of positrons to send a spaceship to Mars. Facing ...
Researchers from the Indiana University at Bloomington and Brown University have discovered what could be nature’s strongest “super glue”, with a myriad of applications ranging from emergency wound-healing to mending damaged vessels at sea. How does an aquatic bacterium that ...
The Space Elevator concept appeared for the first time in 1895 when Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky considered a tower that would reach all the way into space. In the 20th century, Arthur C. Clarke introduced the concept of a space ...
This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae Galaxies, named for their antenna- or tail-like appendages, is the sharpest yet of this merging spiral pair. Billions of stars will be formed during the course of the collision. One ...