A MAP of Venus surface should be available within the next decade. While Elon Musk calls for manned missions to Mars and privately funded space travel makes regular headlines, Venus is often overloo… [+2903 chars]
A luminescence reaction modeled on fireflies can detect contamination with organophosphates with high sensitivity, ease, and low cost. At the center of this technology is a new enzymatic method for t… [+2736 chars]
Horridus is the new Triceratops dinosaur on display at the Melbourne Museum. It lived 67 million years ago and was excavated from a site in Montana USA. Triceratops had the largest head of any terres… [+548 chars]
Aroud 7,500 light years away, in the direction of the constellation of Ophiuchus, also known as the Serpent Bearer is a binary system designated as RS Ophiuchi. The system consists of a red giant sta… [+3447 chars]
US researchers have used modelling to reveal the processes behind floating 'rafts' that help fire ants survive floods.
Scientists have discovered that the massive Hiawatha crater in Greenland is much older than previously thought. Video Elephant The massive 19-mile-wide Hiawatha crater underneath the northwestern i… [+2770 chars]
Superconductors are metals that enable electricity to travel without resistance and, according to Cornell University physicist Brad Ramshaw, hold promise as the defining material of the near future. … [+5266 chars]
(KNSI) A St. Johns University grad on the International Space Station may not have a ride home later this month. Mark Vande Hei, who graduated from SJU in 1989, blasted off from the Cosmodrome in Ka… [+798 chars]
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in the U.S. and China and one in Australia has developed a way to use electrons to accelerate molecular … [+2947 chars]
The space station will join Russia’s Mir Station and Skylab Fragments in the uninhabited South Pacific, which is home to more than 263 intentional fragments of space debris.Additionally, by understan… [+4562 chars]
Physicists have discovered a new way to coat soft robots in materials that allow them to move and function in a more purposeful way. The research, led by the UK’s University of Bath, is described tod… [+3473 chars]
NASA is currently tracking an asteroid that is approximately the size of a football stadium as it makes a close approach with Earth. The asteroid is dubbed "Asteroid 2015 DR215," and according to NA… [+871 chars]
