Space & Physics

Suppressing wildfires is harming California’s giant sequoia trees

Suppressing wildfires is harming California’s giant seq...

SIN Apr 6, 2024 0 50

California’s rare sequoias rely on high heat to disperse their seeds, and effort...

We finally know why Stephen Hawking's black hole equation works

We finally know why Stephen Hawking's black hole equati...

SIN Apr 6, 2024 0 48

Stephen Hawking and Jacob Bekenstein calculated the entropy of a black hole in t...

NASA Leadership Spotlights Space Sustainability at Space Symposium

NASA Leadership Spotlights Space Sustainability at Spac...

SIN Apr 6, 2024 0 38

NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Associate Administrator Jim Free are sc...

How a total solar eclipse in 1919 left physicists 'more or less agog'

How a total solar eclipse in 1919 left physicists 'more...

SIN Apr 6, 2024 0 72

One total solar eclipse changed physics forever – and even to this day these cel...

Astronauts Protect Their Eyes with Eclipse Glasses

Astronauts Protect Their Eyes with Eclipse Glasses

SIN Apr 6, 2024 0 51

While visiting NASA Headquarters in Washington on March 19, 2024, astronauts Ste...

NASA Selects University Teams to Compete in 2024 RASC-AL Competition

NASA Selects University Teams to Compete in 2024 RASC-A...

SIN Apr 6, 2024 0 27

Fourteen undergraduate and graduate teams from across the country were selected ...

NASA Langley Team to Study Weather During Eclipse Using Uncrewed Vehicles

NASA Langley Team to Study Weather During Eclipse Using...

SIN Apr 6, 2024 0 43

A six-person team of researchers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton,...

Introduction to Spectrum

Introduction to Spectrum

SIN Apr 5, 2024 0 47

You can’t see it. . .you can’t touch it. . .you can’t live without it. Use these...

NASA’s LRO Finds Photo Op as It Zips Past SKorea’s Danuri Moon Orbiter

NASA’s LRO Finds Photo Op as It Zips Past SKorea’s Danu...

SIN Apr 5, 2024 0 17

NASA’s LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter), which has been circling and studying ...

Left-handed monkeys prompt rethink about evolution of right-handedness

Left-handed monkeys prompt rethink about evolution of r...

SIN Apr 5, 2024 0 27

A popular idea links primates living on the ground with a tendency for right-han...

40 Years Ago: STS-41C, the Solar Max Repair Mission

40 Years Ago: STS-41C, the Solar Max Repair Mission

SIN Apr 5, 2024 0 20

On Apr. 6, 1984, space shuttle Challenger took off on its fifth flight, STS-41C....

Lagniappe for April 2024

Lagniappe for April 2024

SIN Apr 5, 2024 0 19

Explore the April 2024 issue featuring: Gator Speaks Picture this. The year is 2...

How mass bleaching has pushed the Great Barrier Reef to the brink

How mass bleaching has pushed the Great Barrier Reef to...

SIN Apr 5, 2024 0 28

Diving at One Tree Island in one of the most highly protected parts of the Great...

The mathematician who worked out how to time travel

The mathematician who worked out how to time travel

SIN Apr 5, 2024 0 28

Mathematics suggested that time travel is physically possible – and Kurt Gödel p...

Hubble Peers at Pair of Closely Interacting Galaxies

Hubble Peers at Pair of Closely Interacting Galaxies

SIN Apr 5, 2024 0 19

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope features Arp 72, a very sele...

Could an MRI scan make prostate cancer screening more accurate?

Could an MRI scan make prostate cancer screening more a...

SIN Apr 5, 2024 0 24

Combining PSA blood tests with MRI scans is making the screening less harmful, b...

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