Milestone: Vision of nanotechnology laid out
Date: Dec. 29, 1959
Where: Pasadena, California
Who: Richard Feynman
On a December day, Richard Feynman gave a fun little lecture at Caltech — and dreamed up an entirely new field of physics.
Beneath the Moon’s cratered surface lie networks of lava tubes and deep pits, natural caves that could shelter future lunar bases from cosmic radiation and wild temperature swings. These underground structures represent some of the…
A thousand light years from Earth, something enormous is happening. The Hubble Space Telescope has captured images of the largest protoplanetary disk ever observed, a swirling mass of gas and dust that spans nearly 640 billion km. To put…
The European Space Agency has cancelled a call for proposals to procure commercial cargo transportation services to the International Space Station (ISS). The services were intended to help the agency…
We’re just a few days from the end of the year, and the next Full Moon. This means that the Moon is big and bright in the sky, with lots to see on its surface.
Jorge, M. & D., B. J. & Performance-based seismic assessment of slope systems. Soil Dyn. Earthq. Eng. 168 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.Soildyn.2023.107835 (2023).
Nengpan, J. et al. Landslide early warning, case studies from Southwest China. Eng….
Cracks continue to form around a shear zone of the Thwaites Glacier, also known as the Doomsday Glacier, as observed by satellites between 2002 and 2022. A team of researchers from the University of Manitoba wrote in a paper, “Over the past two…
A reserve of natural gas bubbling from a cage of ice discovered on the ocean floor to the west of Greenland may be the deepest gas hydrate cold seep on record, and it happens to be teeming with animal life.
The Freya gas hydrate mounds were…
SpaceX is preparing to end 2025 with a high-stakes mission carrying Italy’s advanced Earth observation satellite. The company’s final Falcon 9 launch of the year targets December 30 from California, delivering critical reconnaissance…
