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Northern U.S. states may glimpse Northern Lights overnight on Sunday, Dec. 7 through Monday, Dec. 8, according to a forecast by space weather experts at NOAA. In the wake of a coronal mass ejection on the sun last week, a G1-rated…

Northern U.S. states may glimpse Northern Lights overnight on Sunday, Dec. 7 through Monday, Dec. 8, according to a forecast by space weather experts at NOAA. In the wake of a coronal mass ejection on the sun last week, a G1-rated…

Catch Jupiter’s famous icy moon Europa as it treks across the gas giant’s disk overnight, led by its shadow.
Europa and its shadow transit the…

The red planet has a new, fun little surprise for us. While trundling through an ancient channel last year, NASA’s Curiosity rover literally ran over a rock on Mars and cracked it open, only to find bright yellow crystals glinting inside….

Milestone: Chemotherapy agent sends leukemia into remission
Date: Dec. 6, 1954
Where: Sloan Kettering Institute and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York
Who: Gertrude Elion and colleagues
In 1954, researchers described a new drug that sent…


This week’s biggest science news took us to a region 140 million-light-years away, where scientists have discovered the largest spinning object in the known universe. The enormous rotating filament is wider than the Milky Way and is linked to…

Quantum receivers utilising the unique properties of Rydberg atoms represent a promising new frontier in radio frequency technology, but achieving optimal sensitivity remains a key challenge. Anton Tishchenko, Demos Serghiou, Ashwin…

A research team from the Institute of Modern Physics (IMP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has directly measured the masses of two highly unstable atomic nuclei, phosphorus-26 and sulfur-27. These precise measurements provide…

Scientists have unveiled a technique that uses ‘molecular antennas’ to direct electrical energy into insulating nanoparticles. This approach creates a new family of ultra-pure near-infrared LEDs that could be used in medical diagnostics, optical…