NASA's DART test for planetary defense just proved it can shift an asteroid's solar orbit

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove ...

Spacecraft’s impact changed asteroid’s orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...
Scientific American

NASA changed an asteroid’s orbital path around the sun, a first for humankind

Smashing a spacecraft into a binary asteroid system has managed to alter its path around the sun, a new analysis reveals ...

Scientists Spin Molecules Inside a Frictionless Superfluid for the First Time

A newly designed optical centrifuge allows scientists to control molecular rotation inside superfluid helium nano-droplets.

In a first, NASA changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun—by accident

A new study shows that, not only did the agency’s 2022 DART mission shift the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos, it also changed ...
Science Daily

Electrons catapult across solar materials in just 18 femtoseconds

Electrons in solar materials can be launched across molecules almost as fast as nature allows, thanks to tiny atomic ...

Using tiny ripples at skin level to monitor for possible health problems below

Caltech scientists have developed a method that detects tiny, imperceptible movements at the surface of objects to reveal ...

I study why zebrafish larva prefer to circle left or right, to understand how and why human brains encode right- and left-handedness

Being right- or left-handed is a familiar fact about yourself you likely don’t think about much on a day-to-day basis.
Animal Welfare Institute

Replacing Animals in Experimentation: Where We Are, Where We’re Going

Experiments on animals (“in vivo” experiments) have long been the norm for learning about human health and disease, because testing on live animals enables researchers to investigate how chemicals, ...