At this years South by Southwest Festival, I had the pleasure of asking a panel of experts some big questions about travel to Mars. The journey will push limits of the human body and may take us to t… [+13902 chars]
It's a question that has plagued astronomers for years: How did supermassive black holes, which can weigh billions of times the mass of the sun, grow so large, so quickly? Now, scientists are closer … [+4070 chars]
The first study to compare the accumulation of mutations across many animal species has shed new light on decades-old questions about the role of these genetic changes in ageing and cancer. Researche… [+6334 chars]
The image dazzles from a computer screen in the corner of the room: six beams of red-orange light bursting from a luminous Milky Way star. But the most entrancing part of the pictureamong the public… [+8831 chars]
World-renowned Greek astrophysicist, Stamatios Krimigis, says that a human settlement on Mars is a distant dream.Unlike Elon Musk who claims that colonization of the Red Planet is feasible in the not… [+5035 chars]
The International Astronomical Union downgraded Pluto the celestial body, not the popular Disney mascot from planetary status in 2006. (IAU). The debate had centred on whether or not the little spher… [+2405 chars]
It's confirmed: The hottest rock ever discovered in Earth's crust really was super-hot. The rock, a fist-sized piece of black glass, was discovered in 2011 and first reported in 2017, when scientis… [+3366 chars]
From the muscle fibers that move us to the enzymes that replicate our DNA, proteins are the molecular machinery that makes life possible.Protein function heavily depends on their three-dimensional st… [+6342 chars]
Neurons exhibit periodic, quasi-periodic, and chaotic responses to periodic inputs. Understanding how neurons respond to diverse signals might help scientists better understand cognition and developm… [+3085 chars]
Indian-origin astronaut Raja Chari, who docked to the International Space Station (ISS) in November last year, is all set to return home to planet Earth later this month after spending almost six mon… [+2012 chars]
Telescopes that observe the universe in the most energetic form of light may help scientists detect the "fingerprints" of gravitational waves, new research reveals. Gravitational waves form when m… [+2427 chars]
#NewYork: Changing vegetation has been a key driver of global temperatures over the last 10,000 years, finds a study. Warmer temperatures brought plants - and then came even warmer temperatures, acc… [+646 chars]
