Scientists are currently on a hunt for a fallen meteorite after a massive fireball was seen streaking over the west of England last Wednesday night. According to Daily Mail, fragments of the meteori… [+3052 chars]
After more than a year of accomplishments, NASA has extended flight operations for the Mars Innovation helicopter through September. The space agency’s $2.2 billion spacecraft touched down on Mars … [+3281 chars]
image: The novel PCPs/MOFs enable safe extraction of adsorbed acetylene gas at normal pressure with its precise control of gate-opening pressure.view more Credit: Mindy Takamiya/Kyoto University iC… [+3639 chars]
At the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, an international research group made use of computer model simulations to determine that climate change is changing the mechanics of surfac… [+3355 chars]
A pre-print paper on humanity's timeline titled "Avoiding the Great Filter: Predicting the Timeline for Humanity to Reach Kardashev Type I Civilization" has been published on arXiv. Russian astrophy… [+1657 chars]
These outbursts happen on the surface of certain stars, and can each burn through around 3.5 billion Great Pyramids of Giza of stellar material in only a few hours. We have discovered and identified… [+3691 chars]
A pre-print paper on humanity's timeline titled "Avoiding the Great Filter: Predicting the Timeline for Humanity to Reach Kardashev Type I Civilization" has been published on arXiv. Russian astrophy… [+1657 chars]
NASA has shown the first images obtained by the Lucy probe during its trip to the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter. It captured, between November of last year and February, calibration images of 11 star … [+997 chars]
An illustration featuring mammalian herbivores (green), omnivores (purple), invertivores (yellow) and carnivores (red). Each column includes mammal species lost in the past 2.58 million years (light … [+9073 chars]
The National Science Foundation has announced this year's winners of the prestigious Alan T. ... [+] Waterman Award, named after NSF's first director. getty The U.S. National Science Foundation ann… [+4666 chars]
Researchers in NUI Galway have shown, for the first time, that smaller species of scorpions, with smaller pincers, have more potent venoms compared to larger species with robust claws.The scientists … [+3407 chars]
Even more information can be gained from those pterosaur feathers. The study indicates they were fairly small, meaning that they weren't used to help the animal fly. Instead, the feathers could have … [+1242 chars]