A team of U.S. scientists has discovered the oldest directly dated ice and air on the planet in the Allan Hills region of East Antarctica.
Princeton University
Posted inAstronomy & Telescopes, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Interstellar, Press Release
Simulating Turbulence In A Galaxy
From the ocean’s rolling swells to the bumpy ride of a jetliner, turbulence is everywhere. It breaks large waves into smaller ones, cascading energy across scales. It is ubitquitous throughout […]
Posted inExploration Gear & Tech, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs
Another Offworld Droid Concept: Soft Origami Caterbots and Robatapillars
Editor’s note: So far we have only landed our robots on safe places on other worlds. And while they have the ability to traverse a wide variety of terrains they […]
Posted inAtmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Europa, Habitable Zones, Icy Worlds, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Jupiter, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
Juno Measures Oxygen Production On Europa
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has directly measured charged oxygen and hydrogen molecules from the atmosphere of one of Jupiter’s largest moons, Europa. According to a new study co-authored by SwRI scientists […]
Posted inGenomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Press Release
Reverse Engineering Cellular Microtubules
Imagine standing in a lumberyard and being asked to build a house — without blueprints or instructions of any kind. The materials are all in front of you, but that […]
Posted inImpact events, Press Release
New Fallout From The Collision That Changed The World
When the landmass that is now the Indian subcontinent slammed into Asia about 50 million years ago, the collision changed the configuration of the continents, the landscape, global climate and […]
Posted inOrigin & Evolution of Life, Press Release
Two-billion-year-old Salt Rock Reveals The Rise of Oxygen in Earth's Ancient Atmosphere
A 2-billion-year-old chunk of sea salt provides new evidence for the transformation of Earth’s atmosphere into an oxygenated environment capable of supporting life as we know it. The study by […]
Posted inGenomics, Proteomics, Bioinformatics, Press Release
Protein Designed Entirely From Scratch Functions In Cells As A Genuine Enzyme
A dawning field of research, artificial biology, is working toward creating a genuinely new organism. At Princeton, chemistry professor Michael Hecht and the researchers in his lab are designing and […]
Posted inMars, Press Release
A Funnel On Mars Could Be A Place to Look For Life
A strangely shaped depression on Mars could be a new place to look for signs of life on the Red Planet, according to a University of Texas at Austin-led study. […]
Posted inExoplanets, -moons, -comets, Press Release
Kepler Confirms 1,284 New Planets
Scientists from Princeton University and NASA have confirmed that 1,284 objects observed outside Earth’s solar system by NASA’s Kepler spacecraft are indeed planets. Reported in The Astrophysical Journal on May […]