A proposed space telescope would use Earth’s atmosphere as a lens Posted on August 09, 2019 by quaezar In News Telescopes keep getting bigger — and more expensive. But what if there were a better way? One astronomer has suggested a possible work-around: Turn the entire Earth into a telescope […]Read more A proposed space telescope would use Earth’s atmosphere as a lens
TESS has found the first-ever ‘ultrahot Neptune’ Posted on August 02, 2019 by quaezar In News CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Astronomers have spotted a new kind of planet: a Neptune-sized world sitting scorchingly close to its star. It could be in the midst of transforming from a […]Read more TESS has found the first-ever ‘ultrahot Neptune’
New property of light discovered Posted on June 28, 2019 by quaezar In News A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in Spain and the U.S. has announced that they have discovered a new property of light—self-torque. In their paper published in the […]Read more New property of light discovered
DNA reveals a European Neandertal lineage that lasted 80,000 years Posted on June 26, 2019 by quaezar In News Neandertals had evolutionary stamina. An unbroken genetic line of the jut-jawed, powerfully built human relatives inhabited Europe for at least 80,000 years until dying out around 40,000 years ago, scientists […]Read more DNA reveals a European Neandertal lineage that lasted 80,000 years