"Christmas tree worm" is the common name for a marine worm that lives on tropical coral reefs around the world. You won’t find Spirobranchus giganteus, also known as the Christmas tree worm, eating your fir tree this year. The common name for... Continue Reading →
Vision is a complex process. The visual perception of the environment is created by a combination of different wavelengths of light, which are decoded as colors and brightness in the brain. Photoreceptors in the retina first convert the light into... Continue Reading →
Why is this jellyfish swimming in a sea of stars? Drifting near bright star Eta Geminorum, seen at the right, the Jellyfish Nebula extends its tentacles from the bright arcing ridge of emission left of center. In fact, the cosmic jellyfish is part of bubble-shaped supernova... Continue Reading →
And so it feels like old movies and gingerbread, time to wear green and red or something like that. Christmas always feels like a combination of old memories and present to me.
The remotely operated facility aboard the International Space Station has created another tool that researchers can use to probe the fundamental nature of the world around us. For the first time in space, scientists have produced a quantum gas containing... Continue Reading →
Sculpted by stellar winds and radiation, a magnificent interstellar dust cloud by chance has assumed this recognizable shape. Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is some 1,500 light-years distant, embedded in the vast Orion cloud complex. About five light-years "tall," the dark cloud is cataloged as Barnard... Continue Reading →
3D printing is advancing rapidly, and the range of materials that can be used has expanded considerably. While the technology was previously limited to fast-curing plastics, it has now been made suitable for slow-curing plastics as well. These have decisive... Continue Reading →
One year ago a Space Launch System rocket left planet Earth on November 16, 2022 at 1:47am EST carrying the Orion spacecraft on the Artemis I mission, the first integrated test of NASA’s deep space exploration systems. Over an hour after liftoff from Kennedy... Continue Reading →
It is a miserable thing howI cannot seem to fall in lovewith myself. Selfish it may soundcoming from my own clumsy tongue,but that is where romance starts,isn't it? Inside ones own soul?Rippling out from bones to everypiece of skin one... Continue Reading →
Scents of Science 