The NuStar (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) telescope has captured a spectacular image of Cassiopeia A, a remnant of a star that exploded as a supernova more than 11,000 years ago. Because the supernova was so far from Earth, its light reached our planet only 350 years ago.
A team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics has achieved a milestone in this matter: recording the most accurate figure ever achieved for the atomic mass of the electron. The results of the study have been published in the journal Nature.
The PLATO mission (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) has finally been approved by ESA within its Cosmic Vision program in which Spain participates significantly with researchers from AstroMadrid and the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC). Your objective will be to search for planets that orbit relatively close stars with the intention of locating Earth-like stars, that is, habitable planets. It is the worthy successor to the Kepler mission.
Our brain has a kind of switch that regulates our behavior in the face of sensory information that comes to us from our environment. This is demonstrated by the latest study by a team of scientists from NERF (Neuro Electronics Research Flanders) and VIB (Flanders Institute for Biotechnology).
Surely you know the television series The Big Bang Theory. In many of their chapters Sheldon, Wolowitz, Leonard, etc. allude to scientific principles and historical moments related to science to explain their life at the University. Our science editor, Miguel Ángel Sabadell, has taken small fragments from some chapters of the series to show us that science does not have to be boring.
The electric eel, also called moray eel, is a typical fish from the Amazon basin and the Orinoco River, whose most notable characteristic is that, apart from being a very agile fish that can swim in multiple directions, it is capable of emitting discharges. electrical power from a group of specialized cells, making it both their hunting system and their survival and communication system with other eels.
In this chapter of The Big Bang Theory the protagonists apply the famous Drake equation, normally used to calculate the chances of contacting intelligent extraterrestrial beings, to the chances of ending up hooking up in a disco.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
