The Antikythera Mechanism, an incredible 2,000-year-old artifact that has gained fame as the first known analog computer, has excited the imaginations of the public and experts alike since it was rec… [+4074 chars]
In a new study published in the 'Planetary Science Journal' astronomers said that Neptune has experienced an unexplained shift in temperature. The study's lead author Michael Roman, a postdoctoral r… [+1909 chars]
Let’s ring in spring with the first full moon of the season! The Full Pink Moon will rise in the sky this weekend. According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, April’s Full Pink Moon will rise on Saturday… [+746 chars]
If you meet the new robot at the University of Bristol, it can gently shake your hand. That's because researchers have designed an artificial fingertip with a sense of touch nearly as sensitive as o… [+3961 chars]
A new study by scientists at The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT provides the most comprehensive and rigorous evidence yet that the mammalian brain stores a single memory across a wi… [+7889 chars]
The dancing lights of the aurora borealis lit up the skies all over British Columbia last weekend. Those who didn’t have a chance to see the celestial phenomenon for themselves may be in luck, as ex… [+3847 chars]
The farthest astronomical object in the universe has been identified: a galaxy called Hd1 that is about 13.5 billion light-years away from us. Born only 300 million years after the Big Bang, it could… [+1934 chars]
Experts have confirmed a meteor that hit Earth in January 2014 did come from another solar system and is therefore the first known interstellar object. In a newly-released memo, US Space Command of… [+7990 chars]
Physicists studying ghost-like particles called neutrinos from the international MicroBooNE collaboration have reported a first-of-its-kind measurement: a comprehensive set of the energy-dependent ne… [+5941 chars]
Teleportation may be a concept usually reserved for science fiction, but researchers have demonstrated that it can be used to avoid loss in communication channels on the quantum level. The team, inc… [+3422 chars]
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover mission has cost more than $2 billion so far, so it would be a disaster if it hit an insurmountable obstacle and became stuck in the red planet's harsh terrain. So how… [+2758 chars]
NASA's asteroid-orbiting Psyche spacecraft has moved a step closer to lift-off, after being unveiled to the media ahead of its launch this summer. Engineers are putting the final touches on the prob… [+9873 chars]
