Ce qui semble être un minuscule monde extraterrestre vient d'être découvert en orbite autour du voisin stellaire le plus proche du système solaire.La candidate exoplanète, nommée Proxima d, orbite autour d'une étoile...
Issam Mudawar, a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, has been solving heat-related emergencies for 37 years. They often follow a pattern. Anyone who dreams up a supercomputer, or new avionics...
Late last century, the Joint European Torus (JET) near Oxford, UK, churned out 22 megajoules of energy in what was, at the time, a record in fusion power.Now, experimental upgrades have brought...
Stretching for nearly 80 miles across the seafloor of the central Arctic, the Langseth Ridge is craggy, barren, and generally inhospitable. And it should be: Unlike more productive oceans, few nutrients swirl...
Domestic dogs are fertilizing the green spaces where they regularly poop and pee, and not in a good way. Even in nature reserves where dogs are supposed to be kept on leash, a...
Almost anytime physicists announce that they’ve discovered a new particle, whether it’s the Higgs boson or the recently bagged double-charm tetraquark, what they’ve actually spotted is a small bump rising from an...
Lorsque de jeunes étoiles fusionnent à partir d'un nuage d'hydrogène moléculaire, un disque de matériau résiduel appelé disque protoplanétaire les entoure. Ce disque est l'endroit où les planètes se forment, et...
This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.In Minnesota, there’s a research farm peppered with wind turbines that, when in full swing, boasts an...
