Imagine the equivalent amount of sugar to 32 billion cans of Coca-Cola sitting on the seabed. It's not a sweet-tooth, carbonated fantasy but reality, the results of a new study show. The research, p… [+4224 chars]
DNA mutations might be caused by a rather weird, but well-known, quantum mechanism called tunnelling. This challenges the notion that quantum behavior doesn't happen in living cells, and could greatl… [+3545 chars]
The third long-duration astronaut team launched by SpaceX to the International Space Station (ISS) safely returned to Earth early on Friday (May 6), splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida t… [+75 chars]
Canada has amended its criminal code which would now allow the country's lawmakers to prosecute crimes committed on the Moon. The amendment bill was passed in Canada's House of Commons on April 29 as… [+1808 chars]
Scientists from the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research have used computer modeling to show how a hypothesized type of supernova would evolve on the scale of thousands of years, giving researchers … [+3605 chars]
A group of astronomers, led by Sierk van Terwisga from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, have analyzed the mass distribution of over 870 planet-forming disks in the Orion A cloud. By exploiting… [+7511 chars]
Around 56 million years ago, Earth's climate underwent a major climatic transition. A huge release of carbon into the ocean and atmosphere raised atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrationswhich … [+6151 chars]
The flashing of a nearby star led astronomers to discover that it’s part of a rare and mysterious system called a “black widow binary.” A black widow binary a type of system consisting of a rapidly … [+5193 chars]
You can love something to death. That is one way of thinking about a new Stanford University study that reveals how a common component of many sunscreens worn by coral reef-exploring tourists may has… [+4590 chars]
NASA will next month make a fourth attempt to fuel up its Artemis 1 mega rocket that is set to return humans to the moon before the end of the decade. If all goes according to plan, it could set the… [+8371 chars]
Ghostly blue white frost covering the surface of Mars is 'dirty' and mixed with dust grains, study reveals, keeping much of it hidden to the naked eye. A team from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory i… [+9245 chars]
Physicists sometimes come up with crazy stories that sound like science fiction. Some turn out to be true, like how the curvature of space and time described by Einstein was eventually borne out by a… [+9691 chars]
