A team of researchers at the University of Liverpool has tested the assumption that hafted tools (those with handles) provided early humans with enough benefit to warrant their construction and use. … [+2716 chars]
File this one under the "bold predictions" section. A new theory says there might be a bizarro universe out there, or an "anti-universe", that has been running backward in time since before the Big … [+3046 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]
The American space agency has achieved a major milestone in its preparation of the new James Webb Space Telescope. Engineering teams at NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Mission Operations Centre mo… [+7208 chars]
In recent years, physicists have discovered materials that are able to switch their electrical character from a metal to an insulator, and even to a superconductor, which is a material in a friction-… [+7285 chars]
NASA communicates with space missions like its Mars rovers or even the distant Voyager spacecraft using a system called the Deep Space Network (DSN). This consists of giant dishes in three locations … [+1230 chars]
A team of scientists from University of Waterloo have come up with an exciting new theory that explains the origin of the universe, its expansion, and the presence of dark matter. It involves the exi… [+3617 chars]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Climate scientist Elizabeth Barnes uses neural networks and explainable artificial intelligence to answer pressing questions about Earth’s climate. These cutting-edge, mach… [+2036 chars]
NASA's next-generation moon rocket began a highly anticipated, slow-motion journey out of its assembly plant en route to the launch pad in Florida on Thursday for a final round of tests in the coming… [+4732 chars]
Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the destruction of a specific population of neurons: the dopaminergic neurons. The degeneration of these neurons prevents the tran… [+3215 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]
NASA's next-generation moon rocket began a highly anticipated, slow-motion journey out of its assembly plant en route to the launch pad in Florida on Thursday for a final round of tests in the coming… [+4732 chars]
