It seemed like there was a new bit of news on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) every few days earlier this year, but we haven’t heard as much from the revolutionary observatory lately. That’s be… [+2691 chars]
Virtual travel to space is possible! Thanks to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which did it through what it calls the holoport. NASA virtually teleported a doctor hundreds o… [+2386 chars]
A special form of light made using an ancient Namibian gemstone could be the key to new light-based quantum computers, which could solve long-held scientific mysteries, according to new research led … [+3000 chars]
For all their death-defying abilities, one thing that tardigrades are pretty rubbish at is walking long distances, though new research suggests that the podgy little moss piglets may be able to overc… [+3316 chars]
Air Date: Week of April 15, 2022 stream/download this segment as an MP3 file An artists rendering of the James Webb Space Telescope, with the multilayered sunshield stretched out beneath the observ… [+22988 chars]
While we all know that dinosaurs died because of a massive asteroid strike against the Earth, many of us still do not understand how an asteroid that impacted one local geographic location can kill a… [+2087 chars]
The location map of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Adapted from Han and Zhou 2017. Credit: Wongtszyanyuki/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Mesozoic granitoids, ranging from the Triassic to the Cret… [+2539 chars]