If you hope to one day visit Mars, expect everything to sound much slower than on Earth and eerily quiet, according to new research using NASA's Perseverance rover. Before the rover landed on the r… [+2446 chars]
After more than a year of preparation and multiple delays, Eytan Stibbe is gearing up to become Israel’s second-ever astronaut ahead of his scheduled take-off this Friday. “I feel very safe, and I t… [+3388 chars]
They are part of the brain of almost every animal species, yet they remain usually invisible even under the electron microscope. "Electrical synapses are like the dark matter of the brain," says Alex… [+2738 chars]
Without the ocean, the climate crisis would be even worse than it is. Each year, the ocean absorbs billions of tons of carbon from the atmosphere, preventing warming that greenhouse gas would otherwi… [+5245 chars]
While much is known about the evolution of the brains of modern-day mammals, it has been unclear until now how they developed in the first few million years following the mass extinction. It had bee… [+1946 chars]
A new study published in the journal Ecosphere has found that spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) are able to adjust to a reduced presence of migratory prey in their territories induced by climate chang… [+3025 chars]
It’s strange how much we don’t know about the creatures we share the planet with, isn’t it? Every day, researchers are surprised by something or another, and recently, researchers realized that an an… [+2984 chars]
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.)(THE CONVERSATION) 2022 marks the 100th birthday of Nobel Prize winning chemist Har Go… [+6523 chars]
The issue around renaming the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has not been settled yet as new revelations claim NASA was completely aware of the alleged homophobia exhibited by the telescope's name… [+2101 chars]
The term near-Earth object or NEO refers to any celestial body of a significant size. The starting point is to find out those objects whose orbit brings them close to Earth. These include asteroids, … [+3660 chars]
Saskatchewan, Canada (CNN) – The night sky has been a source of information and wonder since the dawn of humankind — and it looks almost the same now as it did then. But the night sky as we know it i… [+5308 chars]
Research leaders often seek to open up areas of research for further generations of scientists.Credit: Getty Researchers have many ways to establish a legacy, including technical innovation, commerc… [+13362 chars]
