Understanding Concepts

NASA’s October 15 Astronomy Picture of the Day features the Milky Way above Manhattan, captured using a near-infrared filter that reduces city-light glare.

NASA says SpaceX’s CRS-35 will carry four investigations to the ISS on brain tissue, crop disease, astronaut health testing and resistant bacteria.

NASA’s October 11 APOD explains how IceCube uses light sensors buried in Antarctic ice to detect high-energy cosmic neutrinos.

Search interest is rising around a PDF titled “Terence Tao: Math 2.0,” but the document’s contents and the reason for the attention are unverified.

X-ray analysis of six Chernobyl fuel particles found their crystal structure largely intact, but researchers caution that the small sample cannot establish regional risk.