The James Webb Space Telescope just found the oldest supernova ever seen
The supernova exploded over 13 billion years ago in a galaxy far, far away.
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Reclaiming control to build workforce resilience
University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies announced the publication of “Reclaiming Control: Autonomy as the Key to Workforce Resilience and Career Optimism,” a new white paper by Karen Johnson, Ed.D. The report argues that restoring a sense of autonomy…
NASA Demonstrates Safer Skies for Future Urban Air Travel
2 min read Preparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA engineer Hanbong Lee demonstrates capabilities to manage busy urban airspace traffic during a recent simulation at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley. NASA/Brandon Torres-Navarrete NASA is…
What a Blast! NASA Langley Begins Plume-Surface Interaction Tests
5 Min Read What a Blast! NASA Langley Begins Plume-Surface Interaction Tests Views of the 60-foot vacuum sphere in the which the plume-surface interaction testing is happening. Credits: NASA/Joe Atkinson In March as Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission-1 landed on…
Lighting strongly influences people’s experience while listening to music, study suggests
When you go to your next concert or listen to your favorite music on an app, you might first consider the lighting around you.
San Antonio saw average of 7 guns per day stolen out of cars in 2024, research finds
An average of seven guns were stolen out of cars in San Antonio each day in 2024, according to researchers at UTHealth Houston.
This 7-hour cosmic explosion is the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen. Could it be from an elusive class of black hole?
“This is certainly an outburst unlike any other we’ve seen in the past 50 years.”
Museum staff are overwhelmingly in favor of behind-the-scenes tours
If natural history museums can be said to have a problem, it’s that they have too many specimens for any one person to see and not nearly enough exhibit space to show them off. The Florida Museum of Natural History,…
Chinese astronauts inspect damaged Shenzhou 20 spacecraft during 8-hour spacewalk (video)
Two Chinese astronauts installed more debris shielding on the Tiangong space station and assessed the damage to the attached Shenzhou 20 spacecraft during a spacewalk on Tuesday (Dec. 9).
US communities are getting older and more livable
Frequently framed as a crisis, the aging of the U.S. population also provides an opportunity to build more livable communities.