If you want to visit Uranus, you need to start planning early. Designing and building a craft to cross the billion-plus miles might take a decade, and the cruise to the solar system's third-largest planet could require an additional 15 years.Undaunte...
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CES was a bit different this year, with some companies declining to attend and others featuring simpler exhibits, but something that did not change was that a cavalcade of new products was introduced. As we do each year, the staff at Residential Syst...
Microscope image of a mouse pancreatic tumour – red spots are listeria bacteria delivering tetanus to tumour cells.Claudia Gravekamp, Albert Einstein College of MedicinePancreatic tumours have been drastically shrunk in mice using a creative ne...
itemProp="image" Grab began trading on the Nasdaq on Thursday, becoming the largest-ever company to close a SPAC merger and go public.Shares tumbled more than 20%, following a deal that valued the four-time CNBC Disruptor 50 company at nearly $4...
The magnetic fields of Earth, Uranus, and Neptune.Credit: ETH Zurich / Takashi Kimura The magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune are really seriously ruined. And I don’t know why.The magnetic fields of most planets (if any) are fairly simple. Th...
Saturn’s moon Titan passing in front of the planetNASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteSaturn’s largest moon Titan has an outsized effect on the planet’s tilt, and its outwards migration could knock the planet onto its side and doom Titan...
If aliens could confuse Earth for another planet, we could be mistaking our impressions of exoplanetsLimbitech/ShutterstockTaking a picture of a far-off world may not be enough to identify what sort of planet it is. We know this because from outside...
Uranus may have clumps of ammonia hiding in its atmosphereBuradaki/AlamyUranus and Neptune may be hiding slushy hailstones called mushballs deep inside them. These huge clumps of water and ammonia may explain why there is so little ammonia higher up...
NASA/JPLAFTER a few months of rising during the day, making them impossible to see, the solar system’s biggest and most distant planets are once again visible at night. While Jupiter and Saturn are great targets to look for, shining brightly en...
Credit: Daniel Tsai / AIX.They have been a source of attraction since the Dead Sea Scrolls were accidentally discovered in a cave on Palestinian territory over 70 years ago. The scroll is famous for containing the oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Scr...
Credit: Daniel Tsai / AIX.They have been a source of attraction since the Dead Sea Scrolls were accidentally discovered in a cave on Palestinian territory over 70 years ago. The scroll is famous for containing the oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Scr...
Credit: Daniel Tsai / AIX.They have been a source of attraction since the Dead Sea Scrolls were accidentally discovered in a cave on Palestinian territory over 70 years ago. The scroll is famous for containing the oldest manuscripts of the Hebrew Scr...
The concept art of Chandra’s artist, the most powerful X-ray telescope ever.Credit: NASA / CXC / NGST X-rays provide unique insights into the world of astronomy. Although invisible to the naked eye, it is most commonly considered the source of...
A Medieval manuscript at the Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg library Credit: Copyright held by Heidelberg University (permission to publish here granted by Karin Zimmerman, Heidelberg University). This image may be used only in this blog entr...
A female myrmicine ant (Temnothorax americanus)Clarence Holmes Wildlife/AlamyTo most ants, smell and taste are everything. But some parasitic ant species have lost the genes that drive these senses – a sensory shakeup that may be due to the way they...
A composite image of the 2004 Keck-I telescope optical image and the 2002 Chandra X-ray data superimposed in pink. Astronomers have detected a potentially deadly new emission coming from Uranus: X-rays. Most of these are produced by the Sun and can b...
Credit: NASA.The strange magnetic fields of the two large gas giants are each strongly tilted with respect to the planet’s axis of rotation, significantly offset from the planet’s physical center. but why? Various theories assume that the...
Neptune and Uranus are the two outermost planets of our solar system and two giant gases. Credit: NASAUranus And Neptune Both have completely distorted magnetic fields, probably due to the special internal structure of the planet. However, new experi...
Share this paper This article is freely shared under the Attribution 4.0 International license. New research reveals the mystery of the completely distorted magnetic fields of Uranus and Neptune. The strange magnetic fields of the two large gas giant...
Brazilian film Bacurau reminded me of an old Ajith film, Citizen. The Tamil film, which released about two decades ago, was the story of a small fictional hamlet, Athippatti, which is surrounded by the sea. Fishing is the main occupation of the villa...
