An international team of scientists from UCL (University College London), the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Natural History Museum (London) and the University of Florence have found a remarkable… [+5604 chars]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain In recent years, crowdsourcing, which involves recruiting members of the public to help collect data, has been tremendously helpful to provide researchers with unique and r… [+4887 chars]
Voyager 1 one of two space probes NASA launched in 1977 to study Jupiter, Saturn and their respective moons is sending confusing data back to Earth, according to the space agency. The spacecrafts co… [+2084 chars]
In this interview, we speak to Martin Mangold, an applications specialist at BMG LABTECH, about their technologies and services, their new microplate reader VANTAstar, and the essential role micropla… [+9925 chars]
It might be time for NASA to ditch its ageing ISS spacesuits. The space agency announced a pause to all its spacewalks until it has a better handle on a lingering and frightening issue thats causing … [+3896 chars]
An artistic illustration of exoplanets. /CFP An artistic illustration of exoplanets. /CFP Chinese scientists have proposed a space project to survey the sky through a space-borne telescope to hunt … [+4551 chars]
What is it like to be on the surface of Mars or Venus? Or even further afield, such as on Pluto, or Saturns moon Titan? This curiosity has driven advances in space exploration since Sputnik 1 was l… [+5288 chars]
Scientists exploring the evolutionary origin of language have detected a vocal communication system among wild chimpanzees more complex and structured than previously known, with a dozen call types c… [+2381 chars]
Under the arch of the setting Milky Way. I had shot at this location before but felt I could do better, so I returned on an unexpected trip to give it another go. I was pleasantly surprised to find t… [+389 chars]
An artistic illustration of exoplanets. /CFP An artistic illustration of exoplanets. /CFP Chinese scientists have proposed a space project to survey the sky through a space-borne telescope to hunt … [+4551 chars]
What's in a head? According to new research, a little bit of our ancestors' tails. In the early days of complex, multicellular life on Earth, animals started out without any spines or brains. They o… [+2661 chars]
How will future warming of the planet impact cold-water corals? A new analysis of ancient evidence from the last major global warming event identifies food and oxygen supply as key environmental fact… [+3253 chars]
