New Equations Go Beyond Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity
Research funded by the National Science Foundation
Science has named nine scientific advances as runners-up for the 2018 Breakthrough of the Year.
Humans wiped out mosquitoes (in one small lab test)
An early lab test of exterminating a much-hated mosquito raises hopes, but is it really such a great idea?
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mosquito-extermination-top-science-stories-2018-yir
Astronomers Detect Water in the Atmosphere of a Planet 179 Light-Years Away
The microscope revolution that’s sweeping through materials science
NSF Supports Expanding Lab-On-Chip Integration, Manufacturing Center
(Research supported by the National Science Foundation)
Meta-Surface Corrects For Chromatic Aberrations Across All Kinds Of Lenses
(Research supported by the National Science Foundation)
https://bioengineer.org/meta-surface-corrects-for-chromatic-aberrations-across-all-kinds-of-lenses/
NOAA GOES-17 Shares First Images of Alaska, Hawaii and the Pacific
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/content/noaa-goes-17-shares-first-images-alaska-hawaii-and-pacific
Doomed star in Milky Way threatens rare gamma-ray burst
http://www.spacedaily.com/m/reports/Doomed_star_in_Milky_Way_threatens_rare_gamma_ray_burst_999.html
Quake split a tectonic plate in two, and geologists are shaken
Astronomers Just Discovered Three Planets in an Entirely New Way
(Research funded by the National Science Foundation)
This is a place where a fractured, imperfect species comes to try to work as one.
This is hallowed ground.
DR Congo Ebola outbreak spreads to Mbandaka city
A star turned into a black hole before Hubble’s very eyes
Ample warning of supervolcano eruptions likely, experts say
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180430131831.htm
Interestingly, some of the best and brightest astrophysicists I know are women. It seems as though we're leaving a lot of human capital on the table.
Closing the gender gap in astrophysics could take a century
ALMA Discovery Challenges the Laws of Star Formation
https://scitechdaily.com/alma-discovery-challenges-the-laws-of-star-formation/
Scientists Find Strange New Effect for Future Solar Cells: Flexo-photovoltaics
Supercharging Chips by Integrating Optical Circuits
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