We know: sitting on a chair in front of a computer accentuates lower back pain. That’s why more and more people are choosing to work out on a gym ball at home as well as in the office. Nevertheless, … [+2530 chars]
ByWillow Reed, University of Colorado BoulderJune 1, 2022 NASAs Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft is the first Mars orbiter specifically designed to study the planets upper a… [+8600 chars]
LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA gravitational-wave detectors store vast amounts of optical power, and multiple pairs of mirrors are employed to maximize the quantity of laser light stored along the detector’s… [+1932 chars]
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Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar spa… [+6471 chars]
Jun 1 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Paleobotanist David Greenwood has been gathering fossil plants from Australia for many years, and some of these are so well preserved that it is difficult to believe… [+6089 chars]
As we go away from the Sun and into the outer solar system, two planets hold our breath for their beautiful shades of colour -- blue. Both Uranus and Neptune, while they appear to be painted in the s… [+2840 chars]
The ill-fated crew of the STS-107 mission of space shuttle Columbia, wearing the orange 'pumpkin' safety suits for ascent and re-entry. From left to right, the astronauts are David Brown, Rick Husban… [+197 chars]
“The similarity in mass and contact area between modern farm vehicles and sauropods raises the question: What was the mechanical impact of these prehistoric animals on land productivity?” The article… [+1242 chars]
image: University of Washington researchers worked with screen-reader users to design VoxLens, a JavaScript plugin that with one additional line of code allows people to interact with visualizations.… [+6382 chars]
As part of the Commercial Crew Transportation Capabilities (CCtCap) contract, NASA intends to issue a sole source modification to California-based SpaceX to acquire five additional crewed flights to … [+1586 chars]
Newswise — While some galaxies form stars at a continuous rate, others die out and lead a more passive life. What made these galaxies stop forming stars at an early age is not well established, not t… [+3778 chars]
