The Subaru Telescope in Hawai'i captured a strange flying whirlpool whizzing across the night sky at the weekend. Anyone looking up would have been very curious at its cause, before probably shruggin… [+2691 chars]
The asteroid 2022 GJ4 is around 18 meters large, making it the length of 3.5 hippos or three giraffes. On Friday, another asteroid, 2022 GU3, will pass nearby, measuring 9.6 American buffalos in leng… [+1942 chars]
Because of its outstanding transparency as well as its stability in contact with heat or chemicals, glass is relevant for many high-tech applications. However, conventional processes for shaping glas… [+4008 chars]
(Photo: Rocket Lab) Tomorrow a private aerospace company will attempt to snatch its own rocket booster out of mid air using a helicopter. Southern California-based Rocket Lab builds and launches a v… [+2156 chars]
Seán Doran strikes again. In this short flyover rendered in 8K resolution by Doran, we’re treated to a detailed look at a crater on Mars. The imagery is from the HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconn… [+90 chars]
The CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has performed the most accurate ever measurement of the mass of the top quarkthe heaviest known elementary particle. The latest CMS result est… [+3234 chars]
A Geiger counter, also known as the Geiger-Muller tube, is an inexpensive and useful instrument used to quickly detect and measure radiation. There are two types of radiation , non-ionizing and io… [+3793 chars]
One year ago today (April 19), an aircraft flew on a world beyond Earth for the first time ever. That history-making vehicle is NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter, which landed inside the Red Planet… [+4562 chars]
The CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has performed the most accurate ever measurement of the mass of the top quarkthe heaviest known elementary particle. The latest CMS result est… [+3234 chars]
The pancreas is a key metabolic regulator. When pancreatic beta cells cease producing enough insulin, blood sugar levels rise dangerously -- a phenomenon known as hyperglycemia -- thus triggering dia… [+4836 chars]
A unique rock formation in China holds clues that tectonic plates subducted, or went underneath other plates, during the Archean eon (4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago), just as they do nowadays, a … [+6111 chars]
Five hundred million years ago, the oceans teemed with trillions of trilobitescreatures that were distant cousins of horseshoe crabs. All trilobites had a wide range of vision, thanks to compound eye… [+5343 chars]
