Regardless of who we are or where we come from, everyone at some point in their lives ponders whether or not life exists beyond the Earth. For the first time in human history, we now possess the info… [+4042 chars]
Quantum computers, machines that leverage quantum states to perform computations and store data, could soon revolutionize the computing industry, achieving significantly greater speeds and performanc… [+6501 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]
April 14 Time: 7 p.m. PDT (10 p.m. EDT; 0300 UTC) NASA is working on a new set of Earth-focused missions to provide key information to guide efforts related to climate change, natural hazard mitiga… [+500 chars]
video: Many brain regions found likely to be involved in encoding a memory (top) were also found to be involved in recall upon reactivation (bottom).view more Credit: Tonegawa Lab/MIT Picower Insti… [+8522 chars]
If you live far enough north or south on planet Earth, you may be lucky enough to see the northern/southern lights (aurora borealis/aurora australis). You'll likely be starstruck by these dazzling li… [+3829 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]
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]
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]
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]
The "corpse" of a sunspot exploded Monday (April 11), triggering a mass ejection of solar material that is headed in Earth's direction. The explosion comes courtesy of a dead sunspot called AR2987, … [+4092 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]
