China is looking to spark interest in space tourism by opening its soon-to-be-completed space station to everyday citizens. Yang Liwei, who made history in 2003 by becoming China's first astronaut i… [+3319 chars]
A combination of machine learning, sophisticated supercomputer simulations and data from large scale surveys of the cosmos have resulted in researchers getting closer to solve a 20 year old conundrum… [+3341 chars]
image: OCT studies without noise. A new method for better detection of eye diseases. Photo: Karol Karnowskiview more Credit: Source IPC PAS/ICTER, Karol Karnowski Worldwide, as many as 285 million… [+6945 chars]
NASA’s Perseverance rover uses microphones to record sounds on Mars that researchers have used to measure the speed of sound on that planet. Last February, the internet was awash with alien sounds a… [+4745 chars]
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Metallic materials used in engineering must be strong and ductile -- capable of carrying high mechanical loads while able to withstand deformation without breaking. Whether a material is weak or stro… [+6045 chars]
First predicted in Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravitational waves are tiny ripples in spacetime generated by titanic and powerful cosmic events. The great physicist believed that no equ… [+2920 chars]
Blood contains a mixture of exosomes secreted from nearly all tissues and cells, and exosomes from other tissues can mask changes caused by disease, making it difficult to detect the presence of biom… [+1737 chars]
The brightest comet of 2021 has disintegrated, according to EarthSky. An icy wanderer known as Comet Leonard (C/2021 A1) fell apart during its perihelion, or closest approach to the sun, the report … [+4792 chars]
How can we detect planets around other stars? Planets are very faint and small compared to the stars they orbit. To overcome this challenge, scientists use a variety of techniques to find and charact… [+1338 chars]
In a milestone for astronomy and possibly the search for extraterrestrial life NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory confirmed there are now 5,000 known planets beyond our solar system. These so-called e… [+1830 chars]
Ancient people would have been greeted with a huge wall of ice (Stock image/Getty) A wall of ice thousands of feet high would have blocked ancient people from entering America via a land bridge fro… [+3244 chars]
