Asteroid collisions are a favourite theme of Hollywood disaster movies — hitting the Earth with a cataclysmic impact or deflected at the last moment by heroic human intervention. Now, new technology… [+3834 chars]
The crowded field of spatial transcriptomics has a new contender. BGI-Researchs Stereo-Seq (SpaTial Enhanced REsolution Omics sequencing) technology has entered the ring. To do so, the group publishe… [+6620 chars]
NASA, on May 3rd, tweeted that it observed a solar flare peaking at 9:25 AM EDT (6:55 PM IST) and it was caught in its Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) footage. While the space agency did not discuss… [+2870 chars]
Dear readers, Welcome to Quartzs newsletter on the economic possibilities of the extraterrestrial sphere. Please forward widely, and let me know what you think. This week: Nelson loves a prix fixe, … [+7284 chars]
Almost over a week ago, a meteorite rattled houses in the state of Mississippi and other neighbouring states in the US. Now, NASA has claimed to have located pieces and fragments of the meteorite. Bi… [+1376 chars]
A collaboration between Harvard University with scientists at QuEra Computing, MIT, University of Innsbruck and other institutions has demonstrated a breakthrough application of neutral-atom quantum … [+3838 chars]
Stephen King unfurled a map on the hood of a colleague's car in Winchester, England. Traveling across the countryside, in the middle of World War II, the car's crankshaft had given out, stranding the… [+22129 chars]
Mars is located right next door judging by an astronomical scale, and it’s the fourth planet from the Sun. This means that astronomers have many chances to study it, although no astronaut has ever la… [+1588 chars]
Japanese toymaker Takara Tomy developed a mini lunar rover robot that will launch to the Moon, a Reuters report reveals. The robot, called 'Sora-Q,' was developed by Takara Tomy in partnership with … [+1605 chars]
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I was cruising through the Google News science section earlier this week when a story popped up saying NASA's estimated a space rock the size of the Great Pyramid may hit our planet on May 6, and eve… [+2473 chars]
This image shows a wider view of the interacting galaxies NGC 1512 and NGC 1510 as seen by the Dark Energy Camera on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory … [+2441 chars]