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Laser Advances That Changed Our Lives: Nobel Prize in Physics
Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland shared the Nobel Prize for finding ways to control and enhance laser light, leading to numerous common applications. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Search for Planet Nine turns up a way-out dwarf planet that’s called ‘The Goblin’
The International Space Station leaves a streak above the Subaru Telescope in a long-exposure image. Observations using the Subaru Telescope led to the discovery of the mini-world known as The Goblin. (Subaru Telescope / NAOJ Photo / Hideaki Fujiwara...
Emissions-free energy system saves heat from the summer sun for winter
(Chalmers University of Technology) A research group from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has made great, rapid strides towards the development of a specially designed molecule which can store solar energy for later use. These advances hav...
NanoRacks names its space outpost team, including Stratolaunch and Olis Robotics
An artist’s conception shows a Centaur upper-stage booster that’s been outfitted to become an orbital outpost. (NanoRacks Illustration)
It takes a village to raise an space outpost, and NanoRacks’ array of villagers includes as well as , the startup...
Dr. John DeLuca recognized for national contributions to the medical rehabilitation field
(Kessler Foundation) John DeLuca, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of Research and Training at Kessler Foundation, has been named 2018 Fellow of the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM).
NASA eyes powerful Super Typhoon Kong-Rey
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA's Aqua satellite provided an infrared view of Super Typhoon Kong-Rey as it continued tracking through the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. Another Super typhoon, Trami, passed through the same area one week ago...
Salk's Janelle Ayres receives NIH Pioneer Award for novel approaches to infectious disease
(Salk Institute) Associate Professor Janelle Ayres has been awarded a 2018 NIH Director's Pioneer Award by the National Institutes of Health for her innovative research into host-pathogen interactions that promote the health of the host. The hig...
Nobel in Physics for Controlling Laser Light
Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland share the 2018 physics Nobel for their work with lasers that have led to numerous practical applications, such as eye surgery. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
How the African elephant cracked its skin to cool off
(Université de Genève) An intricate network of crevices adorns the skin surface of the African bush elephant. By retaining water, these micrometer-wide channels greatly help elephants in regulating their body temperature. Today, researchers at the UN...
Studded winter tires cost more lives than they save
(Chalmers University of Technology) Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have now shown that studded winter tyres cost more lives than they save. The new study takes a holistic view of the tyres' impact on wider public hea...