China wants to find the first viable alternative to Earth in an upcoming hunt for exoplanets. With hopes of finding Earth 2.0, Chinese scientists are planning to survey planets outside our solar syst… [+2215 chars]
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The following is an excerpt fromHow to Save the World for Just A Trillion Dollars: The Ten Biggest Problems We Can Actually Fix, by Rowan Hooper. Disclaimer: When you purchase products through the B… [+9892 chars]
An illustration of what GNz7q might have once looked like. Though they're extremely rare, examples of both dusty starburst galaxies and luminous quasars have been detected in the early universe. The … [+6406 chars]
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Scientist from the Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery (CIBD) of the Natural History Museum in Berlin, from the ZUSE-Institute Berlin and from the RWTH Aachen University have discovered a n… [+4698 chars]
The research will provide insights into the development of potential treatments for neurological diseases and obesity, among other human conditions. SHENZHEN, China, April 14, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- I… [+2399 chars]
Putin recalled Soviet successes in space during a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at the Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russias Far East, saying no sanctions could halt Russias progre… [+1772 chars]
A team of researchers with members affiliated with MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, UCLA and Harvard University has found that a woman without a left temporal lobe developed a language network in the… [+2682 chars]
Phase transitions, such as the boiling of water or the melting of a metal, are commonplace but fascinating phenomena that spur surprises decades after decades. They often occur as the temperature of … [+2396 chars]
Ever since Galileo first pointed a telescope toward the night sky in 1609, novice and professional astronomers alike have been using the curvature of optical lenses to peer deep into the night sky. … [+4100 chars]
While most people think first of atmospheric carbon emissions from fossil fuels when considering climate change, the planet's soil actually stores more carbon and could become a major source of carbo… [+4479 chars]