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What makes a planet look bright? It's complicated.

But a planet's overall brightness is also affected by its distance from the sun, which determines the intensity of sunlight illuminating its surface. When the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, appear near to each other ...

NASA identifies possible Hubble glitch, will start implementing fix Thursday

It does this using a power regulator and a "secondary protection circuit," which tells the payload computer to shut down if the voltage strays above or below acceptable levels, NASA officials explained in an update today (July 14).

New Space Radiation Limits Needed for NASA Astronauts, Report Says

Scientific American

Scientific American

Astronaut Scott Kelly famously spent an entire year residing onboard the International Space Station (ISS), about 400 kilometers above Earth, and his NASA colleague Christina Koch spent nearly that long "on station." Each returned to Earth with slightly ...

Moon 'wobble' and climate change could mean 'double whammy' of flooding in 2030s, NASA warns

The Washington Post

The Washington Post

In the coming decades, higher tides coupled with sea-level rise will cause U.S. coastlines to experience a "dramatic" uptick in flooding, a new NASA study finds. By the mid-2030s, scientists project that there could be a "rapid" increase in the frequency of ...

NASA solar sail asteroid mission readies for launch on Artemis I

Engineers prepare NEA Scout for integration and shipping at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Sailing on sunlight, NEA Scout will capture images of an asteroid for scientific study.

Physicists describe sun's electric field

As the Parker Solar Probe ventures closer to the sun, we are learning new things about our home star. In a new study, physicists led by the University of Iowa report the first definitive measurements of the sun's electric field, and how the electric field interacts ...

Microcrystal electron diffraction supports a new drug development pipeline

The growth of unique structure depositions by year in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) determined by MicroED or related 3D electron diffraction techniques. Depositions into the PDB are broken up into proteins and ...

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CRISPR stops coronavirus replication in human cells

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Scientists have harnessed CRISPR gene-editing technology to block the replication of the novel coronavirus in human cells — an approach that could one day serve as a new treatment for COVID-19. However, the study was performed in lab dishes and has ...

Small molecule plays outsize role in controlling nanoparticle

Cornell researchers led by Peng Chen, the Peter J.W. Debye Professor of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences, have used a breakthrough imaging technique they pioneered in 2019 to obtain a high-resolution snapshot of ...

Ride with Juno as it flies past the solar system's biggest moon and Jupiter

On June 7, 2021, NASA's Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter's ice-encrusted moon Ganymede than any spacecraft in more than two decades. Less than a day later, Juno made its 34th flyby of Jupiter, racing over its roiling atmosphere from pole to pole in ...