Marcel Dicke already knew that insects are an excellent source of protein for humans, but he didn’t expect to learn that they have such a positive impact on plants. In an Opinion paper published on M… [+3077 chars]
You can send your name on a trip around the moon with just a few clicks of your keyboard. NASA is inviting people to put their names on a flash drive that will launch on the agency's Artemis 1 missi… [+2339 chars]
In recent years, shared electric scooters (e-scooters) have taken cities around the world by storm. But how are people using this new mode of transportation? Seeking to understand the potential impac… [+6298 chars]
Antarctic waters have conditions in which objects and living creatures can freeze even under water. This is a major problem for marine travel in polar regions. So-called supercooled water has a tempe… [+2852 chars]
SpaceX is aiming to launch more rockets in 2022 than it has in any year past, and with todays successful Starlink launch, its well on its way to reaching that goal. The Starlink 4-9 mission lifted o… [+1897 chars]
Just as electrons flow through an electrical conductor, magnetic excitations can travel through certain materials. Such excitations, known in physics as "magnons" in analogy to the electron, could tr… [+7721 chars]
Science is all about refinement. Take Pluto, for example: First a planet, then a dwarf planet, then avenged with a new ninth planet... then potentially one of, like, 150 planets in our solar system? … [+2157 chars]
Astronomers have found what looks very much like a pair of supermassive black holes that are orbiting each other in a binary pair. This is a rare beast, but what makes this even more amazing is that,… [+6160 chars]
Fossils have led researchers to a previously unknown species of armoured dinosaur that lived 168 million years ago, and it's unlike anything they've ever seen before. The ancient fossil belongs to a… [+4922 chars]
A huge amount of mysterious dark energy is necessary to explain cosmological phenomena, such as the accelerated expansion of the Universe, using Einstein's theory. But what if dark energy was just an… [+4113 chars]
Neutron stars release powerful warm winds after chowing down on their stellar companions, new research shows. Neutron stars are the remains of more massive stars that reached the end of their liv… [+3036 chars]
SpaceX confirms that its ninth launch of 2022 was a success, meaning that the company has now completed nine orbital launches in less than nine weeks. Right on schedule, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off… [+2799 chars]
