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Breast cancer risk can be lowered by avoiding unnecessary medical imaging
A new reviewed all the available scientific data compiled to date about potential environmental risks of breast cancer — factors such as pesticides, beauty products, household chemicals, and the...
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Neighbor galaxies may have brushed closely, astronomers find
New observations confirm a tenuous “bridge” of hydrogen gas streaming between two prominent members of our Local Group of galaxies — the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy. This indicates the...
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Workings behind promising inexpensive catalyst revealed
A newly developed carbon nanotube material could help lower the cost of fuel cells, catalytic converters and similar energy-related technologies by delivering a substitute for expensive platinum...
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New evidence supports theory of extraterrestrial impact
Scientists have discovered melt-glass material in a thin layer of sedimentary rock in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Syria. According to the researchers, the material — which dates back nearly...
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Highest-energy light from a solar flare ever detected
During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun. The discovery heralds Fermi’s new role as...
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Global warming threat seen in fertile soil of northeastern U.S. forests
Vast stores of carbon in U.S. forest soils could be released by rising global temperatures, according to a new study. Scientists found that heating soil in Wisconsin and North Carolina woodlands by 10...
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Black hole growth found to be out of sync
New evidence from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory challenges prevailing ideas about how black holes grow in the centers of galaxies. Astronomers long have thought that a supermassive black hole and...
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NuSTAR to drop from plane and rocket into space
NASA’s NuSTAR mission is scheduled to launch from Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean on June 13, no earlier than 8:30 a.m. PDT (11:30 a.m. EDT). The observatory, which will hunt for black...
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NASA Mars rover team aims for landing closer to prime science site
NASA has narrowed the target for its most advanced Mars rover, Curiosity, which will land on the Red Planet in August. The car-sized rover will arrive closer to its ultimate destination for science...
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Europeans to build world’s biggest eye on the sky: Largest optical/infrared...
The European Southern Observatory is to build the largest optical/infrared telescope in the world. At its meeting in Garching June 11, the ESO Council approved the European Extremely Large Telescope...
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