PASADENA, California, Oct. 31 (TNSres) -- NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory issued the following news: Researchers have utilized infrared survey data to refine the asteroid's size and surface brightness in support of the Nov. 1 encounter by NASA's Lucy mission. NASA's Lucy mission will soon have its first asteroid encounter as the spacecraft travels through deep space en route to Jupiter's orbit. But before the spacecraft passes 265 miles (425 kilometers) from the surface of the small asteroid   more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology issued the following news: From monitoring concentrations of greenhouse gases to detecting COVID in the breath, laser systems known as frequency combs can identify specific molecules as simple as carbon dioxide and as complex as monoclonal antibodies with unprecedented accuracy and sensitivity. Amazing as they are, however, frequency combs have been limited in how fast they can captu  more