Kepler's Heartbeat Stars: When Binary Stars Get Funky - LOCATION CHANGEBecause of the continuous, high-precision photometry available from the Kepler spacecraft, the Kepler team discovered a type of eccentric binary star named heartbeat stars. In these systems, the two stars come close enough to each other to cause large, periodic changes in the tidal deformation and mutual irradiation of the stars. Additionally, these tidal ...
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The Real Doctor Will See You Shortly: A Physician's First YearReadings from the new book The Real Doctor Will See You Now by New York Times best-selling author Matt McCarthy, MD. Published in 2015, this 'year in the life' memoir of McCarthy's medical internship in a New York hospital provides a glimipse into how doctors are made. Praised as a "real ...
As a member of the Marine Mammal Stranding Network, the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, along with the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, responds to any dead whale that washes up along the coast between the Sonoma/Mendocino county line and the San Mateo/Santa Cruz county line. Each carcass offers scientists ...
Since it began operation in 2009, SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) has allowed scientists to make new types of X-ray measurements that were once thought unattainable by delivering one trillion X-ray photons – particles of X-ray light – in incredibly short bursts of less than 30 femtoseconds, or millionths ...
