If you had told 18-year-old me that I would, one day, be an ichnologist I wouldnt have believed you or even known what that was. But, more than 15 years later, I get to introduce myself as an ichnolo… [+6350 chars]
Adalia Rose Williams died in January at the age of just 15 due to complications arising from progeria syndrome. The famous YouTuber was a fashion and beauty blogger, who also often discussed her hea… [+3025 chars]
(Photo: Andy Holmes/Unsplash) Sometimes experiments dont go as planned. Case in point: when some scientists set out on making hamsters more peaceful via gene editing, they accidentally made the fuzz… [+2507 chars]
The researchers point out that the regolith characteristics could help turn lava tubeshollow voids and caves on the surfaceinto hospitable human habitats. These would provide protection from cosmic … [+2553 chars]
LONG BEACH, Calif. SpaceX launched several dozen payloads on its fifth dedicated rideshare mission May 25, illustrating the continued demand for such missions even as dedicated small launch vehicles … [+4216 chars]
During their lifespans, plants release through their stems and leaves a wide range of biological particles, including fungal spores, pollen, bacteria, viruses, algae, and cell debris. When reaching t… [+2157 chars]
Astronauts living and working in orbit could have their spacecraft and suits cleaned by specially developed microbes. Microorganisms in space present a serious threat to both the health of spacefare… [+2569 chars]
Some of the world's most powerful particle accelerators have helped researchers draw new leading limits on the existence of long theorized magnetic monopoles from the collisions of energetic cosmic r… [+3455 chars]
A new study sheds light on how humans may not simply be warming Earth, but instead may be making the planet's climate chaotic. The new research was shared on ArXiv and is pending peer review. The re… [+2736 chars]
Classical thermodynamics has only a handful of laws, of which the most fundamental are the first and second. The first says that energy is always conserved; the second law says that heat always flows… [+10158 chars]
Getting from point A to point B in the solar system is no simple feat, and inefficient, heavy rockets aren’t always the best way. Therefore, NASA has announced it is moving ahead with a new solar sai… [+2637 chars]
On March 26, the ESA's Solar Orbiter made its closest approach to the sun so far. It ventured inside Mercury's orbit and was about one-third the distance from Earth to the sun. It was hot but worth i… [+5001 chars]
