Interns from the SCaN Internship Project visiting NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia. Credits: NASA For more than a decade, graduates of NASA’s SCaN (Space Communications and Navigation) internship project have played important roles in expanding the agency’s long-term vision for exploration. For National Intern Day on Thursday, July 25, former program interns … Read more
This artist’s concept shows what the universe might have looked like when it was less than a billion years old, about 7 percent of its current age. Star formation voraciously consumed the primordial hydrogen, churning out multitudes of stars at an unprecedented rate. NASA’s Roman Nancy Grace Space Telescope will look back at the early … Read more
Sierra Space’s LIFE Habitat after a full-scale final burst pressure test at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama Sierra Space An element of a NASA-funded commercial space station, Orbital Reef, under development by Blue Origin and Sierra Space, recently completed a full-scale final blast pressure test as part of the agency’s efforts for … Read more
Intern Lena Young, whose work revolves around DEIA and open science, stands next to a NASA sign at the NASA Earth Information Center in Washington, DC Photo courtesy of Lena Young Students in NASA’s Chief Data Science Office (OCSDO) are working to promote open science during the summer 2024 internship session. Their projects span a … Read more
Brachiopods were evolving in new directions, but this did not translate into evolutionary success in terms of species numbers, researchers at the University of Bristol, the Open University and the China University of Geosciences have found. The findings, published today in Nature Ecology & Evolution, shed light on several key principles of the evolution of … Read more
PROVIDENCE, RI [Brown University] – Ilija Nikolov knows better than anyone that a quantum future is coming. In fact, he’s so sure of it that he’s helping one of the world’s biggest investment firms prepare for it. Brown University Ph.D. student is completing an internship with the data science team of the Fidelity Center for … Read more
The pit in Mare Tranquillitatis leads to an underground cave system. Credit: NASA Using radar, a NASA spacecraft, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), has confirmed the existence of caves beneath the lunar surface. Here’s why such geological features will be key to establishing a base on the Moon, and what they can tell us about … Read more
The human habitation of the islands across the Pacific Ocean was followed by waves of faunal extinctions that occurred so quickly that their dynamics are difficult to reconstruct in space and time. These extinctions included large, wingless birds called moas that were endemic to New Zealand. In a new study, scientists from the University of … Read more
4 min read Last Updated : Jul 25 2024 | 10:22 PM IST The government has announced major tax reforms to simplify procedures and reduce uncertainties. Key changes include de-penalising non-reporting of foreign movable assets up to Rs 20 lakh, shortening the time limit for reopening cases from 10 years to five years. Refunds … Read more
NASA’s Perseverance rover discovered “leopard spots” on a reddish rock nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” in Mars’ Jezero Crater in July 2024. Scientists think the spots may indicate that, billions of years ago, chemical reactions in this rock they could have supported microbial life; other explanations are being considered. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS An annotated version of the Cheyava Falls … Read more