SwRI will lead Hubble, Webb observations of Io, Jupiter’s volcanic moon
SAN ANTONIO — August 28, 2023 — The Space Telescope Science Institute recently awarded Southwest Research Institute a large project ...
Tag: observations
Direct evidence for modified gravity at low acceleration from Gaia observations of wide binary stars
A new study reports conclusive evidence for the breakdown of standard gravity in the low acceleration limit from a verifiable ...
Space geodetic observations help reveal variations in Earth’s surface loads
Motion of the Earth's surface mass, including the atmosphere and oceans as well as hydrology and glacier melting, causes the ...
Astronomers discover planets in NASA Kepler’s final days of observations
A team of astrophysicists and citizen scientists have identified what may be some of the last planets NASA’s retired Kepler space ...
NTT and OIST make the first simultaneous atmospheric and marine observations directly beneath a violent, Category 5 typhoon in the North-West Pacific
Joint Press Release Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT, Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President & CEO: Akira Shimada) and the ...
Psychology: Unidentified aerial phenomena observations reported by almost one fifth of academic survey respondents
19% of respondents to a survey of academics report that they or someone they know have witnessed unidentified aerial phenomena ...
Ancient northern ocean on Mars evidenced by in situ observations of marine sedimentary rocks
An international research team led by Professor Long Xiao from the School of Earth Sciences of China University of Geosciences ...
Critical observations of sinking coasts
It’s been said that a rug can really tie a room together. In a similar fashion, Manoochehr Shirzaei and his ...
Observations open door to improved luminous efficiency of organic LEDs
Electroluminescence is the production of light with an electrical current, without relying on heat or chemical reactions. This makes electroluminescent ...
Ocean Changes in 2022: Observations and Consequences –a free webinar from Advances in Atmospheric Sciences
Time: 01:00 UTC Thursday 12 JAN, 2023 08:00PM, US ET, Wednesday 11 JAN, 2023 / Summary: Advances ...
Model analysis of atmospheric observations reveals methane leakage in North China
1. Background Credit: National Institute for Environmental Studies 1. Background Natural gas is a relatively clean burning fossil fuel, that ...
Precise solar observations fed millions in ancient Mexico
Without clocks or modern tools, ancient Mexicans watched the sun to maintain a farming calendar that precisely tracked seasons and ...
Real-time space observations can now keep watch over ‘super emitter’ power plants
Countries signed up to the 2015 Paris Agreement have committed themselves to keep the rise in average global temperature ‘well ...
SwRI scientists compile Cassini’s unique observations of Saturn’s rings
SAN ANTONIO — Oct. 18, 2022 — Southwest Research Institute scientists have compiled 41 solar occultation observations of Saturn’s rings ...
Observations confirm model predictions of sea-level change from Greenland melt
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Sept. 29, 2022—Rising sea levels from melting glaciers and ice sheets pose an increasing threat to coastal ...
How global warming affects astronomical observations
The quality of ground-based astronomical observations delicately depends on the clarity of the atmosphere above the location from which they ...
MAVEN and EMM make first observations of patchy proton aurora at Mars
NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission and the United Arab Emirates’ Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) have released joint ...
Nanoscale observations simplify how scientists describe earthquake movement
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Using single calcite crystals with varying surface roughness allows engineers to simplify the complex physics that describes ...
For the first time, scientists have systematized all the halos discovered over thousands of years of observations
For the first time in the history of observations, scientists from the Helsinki and Ural Federal Universities Jarmo Moilanen and ...
Wildfire-smoke observations fill gap in estimating soot’s role in climate change
LOS ALAMOS, N.M., July 20, 2022—New research refining the amount of sunlight absorbed by black carbon in smoke from wildfires ...
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Important additional driver of insect decline identified: Weather explains the decline and rise of insect biomass over 34 years
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Null results research now published by major behavioral medicine journal
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New study definitively confirms gulf stream weakening, understanding the changes could help predict future trends in extreme events
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New findings on hair loss in men
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Abdominal fat plays important role in remission of prediabetes
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New rooms discovered in Sahura’s Pyramid