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Arecibo Observatory has more science to do despite iconic radio telescope's collapse

Unusually flexible scientific thinking has always been one of Arecibo's strengths. Although the massive radio dish was originally designed for atmospheric scientists to study the ionosphere, the facility blossomed to play a key role in two other scientific ...

A Biography of the Woman Who Will Re-Engineer Humans

The New York Times

The New York Times

THE CODE BREAKER Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race By Walter Isaacson. The coronavirus pandemic forced Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier to accept the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry virtually, instead of ...

Relativity Space teams with HI-SEAS, NASA to celebrate International Women's Day

California-based aerospace startup Relativity Space will celebrate International Women's Day (March 8) and Women's History Month with a new video highlighting an all-woman analog astronaut crew. The new video, which Relativity Space released today, ...

A billion years from now, a lack of oxygen will wipe out life on Earth

With falling carbon dioxide levels, less photosynthesis will occur and some types of plant may die out altogether. Less photosynthesis means less oxygen production, and gradually oxygen concentrations in Earth's atmosphere will drop, creating a crisis for other ...

Squids' ability to tune color and brightness of their iridescence comes down to subtle mechanism

Legends aside, squids continue to intrigue people today—people like UC Santa Barbara professor Daniel Morse—for much the same, albeit more scientific, reasons. Having evolved for hundreds of millions of years to hunt ...

Arecibo Observatory telescope cleanup could cost up to $50 million, NSF reports

Cleaning up the collapsed radio telescope at the iconic Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico could cost between $30 million and $50 million, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF). The cost estimate, revealed Friday (March 5), is laid out in an ...

Key step reached toward long-sought goal of a silicon-based laser

Writing today in Applied Physics Letters, an international team led by Professors Giacomo Scalari and Jérôme Faist from the Institute for Quantum Electronics present an important step towards such a device. They report electroluminescence—electrical light ...

Most distant cosmic jet discovered 13 billion light-years away

Photos: Wonders of the universe. This image from the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile shows a stunning concentration of galaxies known as ...

Rare meteorite that fell on UK driveway may contain 'ingredients for life'

(CNN) A fireball that lit up the sky over the United Kingdom and Northern Europe on February 28 was an extremely rare type of meteorite. Fragments of the space rock discovered on a driveway in the Cotswolds could provide answers to questions about the ...

Hubble Space Telescope in safe mode after software glitch

The iconic observatory went into a protective "safe mode" early Sunday morning (March 7), but its handlers seem confident it will bounce back in relatively short order. " ...