(Newswise)–From the science fiction of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke to the cinematic worlds of Star Wars and galaxies far, far away, humans have imagined life in space. But among the myriad challenges to colonizing other worlds lie fundamental questions of biology: Can a human embryo grow naturally outside the nurturing embrace of Earth? […]
San Diego Successfully Completes First Half Of Drone Pilot Program
SAN DIEGO–The City of San Diego has reached the half-way mark of a pilot program that aims to safely and successfully integrate drones into the national airspace. Selected by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation, San Diego was among 10 agencies nationwide chosen to participate in the Unmanned Aircraft System […]
NASA Selects Flying Mission To Study Titan For Origins, Signs Of Life
NASA has announced that their next destination in the solar system is the unique, richly organic world Titan. Advancing their search for the building blocks of life, the Dragonfly mission will fly multiple sorties to sample and examine sites around Saturn’s icy moon. Dragonfly will launch in 2026 and arrive in 2034. The rotorcraft will […]
Borrowing From Astronomy To Rob The Twinkle From Brain Imagery
Video courtesy of David Kleinfeld, UC San Diego LA JOLLA–For decades, astronomers have solved the problem of removing the “twinkle” from images of stars in the night sky. They use a process called “adaptive optics” (AO) to correct for changes in the density and moisture of air in the atmosphere that scatters the incoming star […]
Running May Have Made Dinosaurs’ Wings Flap Before They Evolved To Fly
(Newswise)–Before they evolved the ability to fly, two-legged dinosaurs may have begun to flap their wings as a passive effect of running along the ground, according to new research by Jing-Shan Zhao of Tsinghua University, Beijing, and his colleagues. The findings, published in PLOS Computational Biology, provide new insights into the origin of avian flight, which […]
A New Filter To Better Map The Dark Universe
(Newswise)–The earliest known light in our universe, known as the cosmic microwave background, was emitted about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. The patterning of this relic light holds many important clues to the development and distribution of large-scale structures such as galaxies and galaxy clusters. Distortions in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), caused by […]
NASA’s InSight Lander Captures Audio Of First Likely ‘Quake’ On Mars
NASA’s Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely “marsquake.” The faint seismic signal, detected by the lander’s Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, was recorded on April 6, the lander’s 128th Martian day, or sol. This is the first recorded trembling that appears to have come from […]
Science Group To Highlight Public Policy At San Diego Rally
SAN DIEGO–As part of San Diego for Science’s mission to connect the community with the science in the city, organizers will be holding its annual Rally for Science on May 4 at Waterfront Park in downtown San Diego. The 10 a.m. rally will highlight the importance of science in public policy and encourage face-to-face conversations […]
Department Of Energy Announces $20 Million For Artificial Intelligence Research
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a total of $20 million in funding for innovative research and development in artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning. DOE’s Office of Electricity has selected eight projects to receive nearly $7 million in total to explore the use of big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning technologies to improve existing […]
The Largest Delta Plain In Earth’s History
(Newswise)–The largest delta plain in Earth’s history formed along the northern coast of the supercontinent Pangea in the late Triassic. Its size out-scales modern counterparts by an order of magnitude, and approximates 1% of the total land area of the modern world. And although contenders are found in the rock record, no ancient counterpart exceeds […]
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