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UTSA creates web-based open source dashboard of North Pole
7:04am, 22nd October, 2018

UTSA creates web-based open source dashboard of North Pole

(University of Texas at San Antonio) It's called ArcCI (or Arctic CyberInfrastructure) and promises to combine the thousands of images that have been taken along the years of the Arctic Ocean into one global database that will help scientists an...
The moon and meteors light up the night
1:38pm, 20th October, 2018

The moon and meteors light up the night

An Orionid meteor flashes in a 2015 image captured by Marshall Space Flight Center’s all-sky camera in Alabama. (NASA / MSFC Photo) Saturday night’s all right … for skywatching: Tonight’s mostly clear skies over Western Washington should provide a go...
A new way to measure nearly nothing
10:55pm, 19th October, 2018

A new way to measure nearly nothing

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) NIST scientists have designed a vacuum gauge, based on ultracold trapped atoms, is small enough to deploy in commonly used vacuum chambers.