Wipe out 96% of Mosquitoes
I Knew There Would Be More Mosquitoes On a Farm, But I Didn’t Expect This! My family recently moved away from the hectic city to enjoy a more relaxed life on…
UCF researchers develop way to control speed of light, send it backward
University of Central Florida researchers have developed a way to control the speed of light. Not only can they speed up a pulse of light and slow it down, they…
Proxima b: Could life exist on Earth-like planet in the solar system next door?
Johns Hopkins planetary scientist Sarah Hörst discusses discovery of planet in ‘habitable zone’ of nearby Proxima Centauri system Last week, researchers confirmed the existence of a rocky—and possibly wet—planet orbiting…
NASA’s WISE, Fermi missions reveal a surprising blazar connection
Astronomers studying distant galaxies powered by monster black holes have uncovered an unexpected link between two very different wavelengths of the light they emit, the mid-infrared and gamma rays. The…
Search for advanced civilizations beyond Earth finds nothing obvious in 100,000 galaxies
After searching 100,000 galaxies for signs of highly advanced extraterrestrial life, a team of scientists using observations from NASA’s WISE orbiting observatory has found no evidence of advanced civilizations in…
New 2-D material could upstage graphene
A new one atom-thick flat material that could upstage the wonder material graphene and advance digital technology has been discovered by a physicist at the University of Kentucky working in…