FONA herzogae, a recently discovered dinosaur species in Utah’s Cedar Mountains, is named after a Chamorro goddess. The grandparents of paleontologist Haviv Avrahami, a member of the research team, are from Guam. He gave the dinosaur its genus name, Fona, based on the ancient Chamorro creation myth. The species name, herzogae, is in honor of … Read more
Source: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain According to a study by the University of Michigan, up to 60% of objects near Earth could be dark comets. These are mysterious asteroids that orbit the sun in our solar system and probably contain or once contained ice. These asteroids could have been one of the routes for delivering water … Read more
Finally, the time has come: Europe’s long-awaited rocket is launching into space. At 3 p.m. Eastern Time on Tuesday — a decade after the European Space Agency set in motion a plan for a powerful new vehicle that would carry the continent’s ambitions into orbit — Ariane 6 lifted off from the launch pad at … Read more
The Omega Centauri star cluster contains millions of stars. The motion of some of the stars suggests that there is a medium-sized black hole at its center. NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA hide caption switch caption NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have found evidence for the existence of an elusive type of black hole, about 8,000 times … Read more
Source: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A researcher working alone, disconnected from the world and the wider scientific community, is a classic but misleading image. In reality, research is based on continuous exchange within the scientific community: first you understand the work of others, then you share your findings. Reading and writing articles published in scientific journals … Read more
Most known black holes are either extremely massive, such as the supermassive black holes found in the centers of large galaxies, or relatively light, with masses less than 100 times that of the Sun. Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), however, are rare and are considered rare “missing links” in black hole evolution. Now, an international team … Read more
Science and discovery 10/07/2024 1028 views 11 I like this An international team of astronomers has used more than 500 images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope spanning two decades to detect seven fast-moving stars in the inner region of Omega Centauri, the largest and brightest globular cluster in the sky. These stars provide compelling … Read more
The inaugural CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) crew is “back on Earth” after leaving their simulated Martian habitat at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on July 6. The first of three simulated missions, CHAPEA Mission 1, was designed to help scientists, engineers and mission planners better understand how living on another world … Read more
Quantum transport simulation of CAR in an approximate QAHI thin film. a, Schematic of the transport simulation setup with a magnetic TI (MTI) thin film in the QAHI state. b, The disorder-averaged electron-to-hole conversion probability. c, The components of local current densities transported by electrons and holes, as well as at the top and bottom, … Read more
This story has been republished with permission from The Birmingham Times As a firefighter for the city of Birmingham and now chief of the City of Birmingham Fire & Rescue Service (BFRS), Cory D. Moon is used to saving lives. But one life he has saved is special to his family — his brother Rodney, … Read more