March’s full moon — called the "worm moon" — is set to reach peak illumination early Friday and will be the last full moon of winter 2022. The full moon will rise on Thursday night, and if the weath… [+1805 chars]
Think evolution is a slow, gradual process? Tell that to fruit flies. In a new report in Science, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania used a controlled field experiment to show that flies… [+6498 chars]
Bright and dark swirling patterns on the Moon's surface have been linked to the topography of the swirls, says a new paper by a team of scientists from the Planetary Science Institute. "This is the … [+3313 chars]
MIT engineers and collaborators have developed a new acoustic fabric that can remedy hearing trouble. The fabric converts sound first into mechanical vibrations, then electrical signals, like our ear… [+3341 chars]
On December 25th last the James Webb Space Telescope JWST for short was finally propelled into the heavens on an Ariane 5 rocket from French Guiana. The telescope is the successor to Hubble, which h… [+6518 chars]
A UNIGE team has identified a gene whose overexpression prevents the development of Parkinsons disease in the fruit fly and the mouse. Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characteriz… [+3576 chars]
The Ingenuity helicopter made aviation history on Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series exploring the red planet. NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter was a huge que… [+1796 chars]
An asteroid around the size of a refrigerator was spotted hours before it hit Earth's atmosphere, and while it wasn't dangerous, it marked the fifth time in history an asteroid was detected right bef… [+3423 chars]
The story of sneaky fast radio bursts (FRBs) may be more complicated than we imagined. It's tough to figure out the origin stories of FRBs because they're so brief, so bright and appear to come from… [+2645 chars]
It's the largest hornet in the world and one of the most invasive species threatening American crops today. Now, scientists in California claim they know how the Asian giant hornet, also known as the… [+2125 chars]
A theorized huge, ninth planet beyond the orbit of Neptune once again wasn't found in a new survey of the solar system's outer reaches. Astronomers scanned a large portion of the sky using the 6-met… [+3318 chars]
Even before we had sophisticated technology at hand, we have been keen to look at the skies to uncover its secrets. As tech developed, we realised that what we could see was just a fraction of what w… [+1141 chars]
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