Science

This Friday (July 9), we explore the chemistry of milk plastic (or casein plastic) in our new video series for kids: Summer School with Live Science. In this week’s installment, WordsSideKick.com producer Diana Whitcroft will demonstrate how to make biodegradable plastic, called casein plastic, with milk and vinegar. She makes jewelry in this guide, but families are encouraged to make …

LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) – A quake over most of southern California was not an earthquake – it was a sound barrier, according to the US Geological Survey. The sonic boom was felt around 9:20 a.m. Friday over a wide swath of southern California. And although it was not an earthquake, the USGS created an event site for it, suggesting that …

Signs of life on Saturn’s moon Enceladus Sky News Australia New analysis by UA scientists can not completely rule out life on the Saturn moon Arizona Daily Star Methane detected by Enceladus may be of biological origin Air & Space Magazine Cassini saw methane in Enceladus’ plumes. Scientists do not know how it could be there without the universe of …

A day after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake shook northern California, residents of southern California were shot Friday morning. But what some thought was another earthquake turned out to be an audio boom that was recorded around noon. 9.20, according to the US Geological Survey. The explosion of sound energy took place about a mile south of San Dimas, the USGS …

Water ice is not exactly known for its flexibility. In fact, it is the opposite: stiff and crisp, easy to crack and snap. This is the reason for avalanches and fragmentation of sea ice. That is also why new research is so fascinating. Researchers have just grown microfibers of water ice that can bend in a loop – breaking the …

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been offline for almost a month. The telescope’s payload computer – a machine from the 1980s that controls and monitors all of the spacecraft’s scientific instruments – abruptly stopped working on 13 June. Engineers have been troubleshooting the problem ever since, but with little success. However, a recent NASA announcement suggests a glimmer of hope: …

Earth is not the only world adorned with the glowing atmospheric phenomenon that is the Northern Lights. In fact, in a solar system aurora competition, the clear winner would be Jupiter. The so-called King of Planets is crowned with the most powerful auroras in the solar system and permanently circulates both its poles. Because they only glow in invisible wavelengths, …

Credit: University of Tsukuba Researchers from the Department of Physics at the University of Tsukuba used the quantum effect called ‘spin-locking’ to significantly improve resolution when performing radiofrequency imaging of nitrogen-free defects in diamond. This work can lead to faster and more accurate material analysis as well as a path towards practical quantum computers. Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers have long …

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been offline for almost a month. The telescope’s payload computer – a machine from the 1980s that controls and monitors all of the spacecraft’s scientific instruments – abruptly stopped working on 13 June. Engineers have been troubleshooting the problem ever since, but with little success. However, a recent NASA announcement suggests a glimmer of hope: …

Earth is not the only world adorned with the glowing atmospheric phenomenon that is the Northern Lights. In fact, in a solar system aurora competition, the clear winner would be Jupiter. The so-called King of Planets is crowned with the most powerful auroras in the solar system and permanently orbits both poles. Because they only glow in invisible wavelengths, we …