The fireball was going about 56,000 miles per hour when it broke to pieces. December 3, 2020, 6:22 p.m. • 5 minutes reading Share on FacebookShare on TwitterEmail this article Pieces of meteor were spotted falling from the sky off the east coast of the United States and Canada in the middle of the day. Residents of New York State …
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KOKOMO, Indiana – A 22-year-old man from Tipton was convicted of providing the gun used to kill 25-year-old Lashay Young-beard in Kokomo earlier this year. Court records show that 22-year-old Jacob Sayers of Tipton pleaded guilty on Tuesday to providing a firearm to an inadmissible person and giving a false statement. On February 3, Young-Brad was found shot and killed …
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The end of an era came unexpectedly this week, when the iconic Arecibo Telescope in Puerto Rico collapsed on December 1, exactly one month after his 57th birthday. And as it happens, the whole thing was sealed in spectacular drone shots that you can watch here right now. Shots of drones from the collapse of Arecibo. I can’t believe the …
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The sad news of the Arecibo telescope’s collapse is still being felt by many astronomers around the world. To give an idea of how the entire 820-ton receiver collapsed, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has just released official footage of the disaster. The video (complete with sound) gives two angles: one from the base of the support tower, and the …
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Protein structures that were predicted by artificial intelligence (blue) and experimentally determined (green) are almost identical. IMAGE: DEEP THOUGHT Artificial intelligence (AI) has solved one of the great challenges of biology: predicting how proteins are folded by a chain of amino acids into 3D shapes that perform life’s tasks. This week, the organizers of a protein folding competition announced the …
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This holiday season will be even brighter thanks to three amazing astronomical events in December – including the best meteor shower of the year and observation of a “double planet”! Meteor shower from Gemini The Geminid meteor shower will reach its peak on the evening of December 13-14. AccuWeather named it the best meteor shower of the year, saying it …
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Illinois researchers have developed a spherical lens that allows light entering the lens from any direction to be focused in a very small spot on the surface of the lens just opposite the direction of the entrance. This is the first time such a lens has been made for visible light. Credit: Graphics by Michael Vincent Researchers have developed new …
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The map measures stars closer to the edge of the Milky Way than ever before. YouTube / ESA You can’t just drive Google Maps car around the Milky Way to draw it. Then it is fortunate that the new information gathered by the Gaia Observatory of the European Space Agency offers the most detailed map of the galaxy so far. …
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Dr. Julien Madeo, a scientist at the OIST Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit, aligns the beam with extreme ultraviolet light. Credit: OIST Predicting the end of a decade, in a promising new class of extremely thin two-dimensional semiconductors, scientists first visualized and measured elusive particles called dark excitons that could not be seen by light. The powerful technique described in a leading …
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This 1964 photo shows a rocket from the upper stage of the Centaur. The 2020 SO space object is one of them. NASA Welcome back, Surveyor 2 Centaur rocket booster. We’ve just received a new chapter in a bittersweet space saga that includes a fiery launch, a doomed lunar mission, and decades of space wandering. The NASA rocket accelerator used …
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