Archerfishes are the anti-aircraft gunners of the aquatic world. The fishes are famed for their amazing ability to shoot down land-based insects midflight with highly accurate streams of water they p… [+5566 chars]
How do planets form? For many years scientists thought they understood this process by studying the one example we had access to: our own solar system. However, the discovery of planets around dista… [+6788 chars]
How fast are you moving right now? Maybe youre reading this while sitting at home, where it seems as though youre not moving at all. Stand still or sit down, and it feels like you are stationary, yet… [+4877 chars]
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has transformed the field of neuroscience over the past 40 years, enabling scientists to create clear snapshots of living brain structures and even detect functional … [+3477 chars]
Scientists have recently begun spying on Europe's most active volcano using an unusual new surveillance device: fiber-optic cables. Researchers revealed how they utilized a technology known as distr… [+3198 chars]
NASA has revealed a stunning new image of a Mars crater and it has a secret meaning. On Monday, the US space agency took to Instagram to share an image of a strange crater on the Red Planet. Nasa… [+1504 chars]
On Feb. 14, NASA's Lucy spacecraft, which is in the first few months of its journey to the Trojan asteroids, obtained a series of calibration images with its four visible-light cameras. The first tes… [+1801 chars]
A FORMER Nasa chief has explained one way that humanity could make the conditions on Mars tolerable to future colonists. Speaking to The New York Times, Jim Green described how the Red Planet could … [+4192 chars]
New York: Ice on the surface of the Moon, known so far to be dry and airless, is likely protected by ancient magnetic fields, according to a new study. Sunlight does not reach the polar craters on t… [+2299 chars]
A decade ago, physicists wondered whether the discovery of the Higgs boson at Europes Large Hadron Collider would point to a new frontier beyond the Standard Model of subatomic particles. So far, tha… [+5346 chars]
Just as our skin is key to our well-being, the skin covering desert soils is essential to life in dry places. This biocrust, made up of fungi, lichens, mosses, blue-green algae, and other microbes, r… [+4657 chars]
When NASA sent humans to the moon in 1969, one of the many hazards the agency had to anticipate was space rocks penetrating astronauts' spacesuits or equipment. Unlike Earth , which has a protective… [+3534 chars]
