Bizarre blobs of glowing light were spotted floating in Europe's night sky in the aftermath of a solar storm, mystifying viewers. The strange sight occurred on April 23, when a coronal mass ejection ...

It may come as no surprise that traffic accidents due to distracted driving have increased sharply in recent years. A large percentage of the U.S. population using smartphones and a still relatively ...

Pumping liquids may seem like a solved problem but optimizing the process is still an area of active research. Any pumping application -- from industrial scales to heating systems at home -- would ...

“By using the HARPS instrument on the 3.6-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) La Silla Observatory in Chile, along with other telescopes, we have measured the mass of a ...

One of the many dangers resulting from global warming is the melting of glaciers. To ascertain how this will affect sea levels in the future, it is important to know how glaciers behave. One of the ...

Allison N. Jaynes is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1479, USA. Read the paper: Pulsating aurora from electron scattering by chorus waves Because ...

Using NASA's Kepler space telescope, Chinese astronomers have observed a binary star system known as KIC 5623923. As a result, they found that the investigated system is a faint eclipsing binary ...