Humans like to look up at clouds and spot fun shapes like dragons and puppies. Last Friday, a weather satellite from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration looked down and spotted a gian… [+1199 chars]
The complex aerodynamics around a moving car and its tires are hard to see, but not for some mechanical engineers.Specialists in fluid dynamics at Rice University and Waseda University in Tokyo have … [+4227 chars]
A new method of detecting mega earthquakes, which picks up on the gravity waves they generate by using deep-learning models created at Los Alamos National Laboratory, can estimate earthquake magnitud… [+2561 chars]
Scientists have momentarily restored a faint twinkle of life to dying cells in the human eye. In order to better understand the way nerve cells succumb to a lack of oxygen, a team of US researchers … [+4703 chars]
NASA's new space telescope is in the home stretch of testing, with science observations expected to begin in July, astronomers said Monday. The James Webb Space Telescope beamed back the latest test … [+1815 chars]
Image caption, All recorded data is shared with the UK Fireball Alliance to calculate trajectory of possible meteorite falls over the UK Hundreds of sightings of a "bright green" fireball in the nig… [+2328 chars]
Image caption, All recorded data is shared with the UK Fireball Alliance to calculate trajectory of possible meteorite falls over the UK Hundreds of sightings of a "bright green" fireball have been … [+2381 chars]
A new NASA video shows some of the black holes closest to Earth, as well as the stars that feed them. The visualization shows 22 X-ray binaries in both our Milky Way galaxy and the neighboring Lar… [+2395 chars]
Did the world's largest prehistoric shark need an orthodontist, or did it just have a bad lunch? Researchers from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences e… [+4811 chars]
If you thought the coldest place on Earth is Antarctica, well, you just might be wrong about that. One of the coldest places on Earth is actually in Menlo Park, California — or more specifically, 30 … [+2662 chars]
A new study from North Carolina State University shows the behavioral mechanism behind a sweet cockroach mating ritual that takes a bitter turn, resulting in rejected males.Male German cockroaches (B… [+5757 chars]
Credit: Pixabay. In what is heralded by experts as a groundbreaking study that could transform vision research, scientists at the University of Utah and Scripps Research have successfully revived li… [+4261 chars]
