Back in the 50s, nobody ever expected June to be a season of thunder showers and lightning storms. Thats climate change for you. And yet, the weather folks tell us May was actually comparatively dry … [+2962 chars]
Astronauts have been venturing intospace for 61 years to unlock the human potential for exploration. But the floating freedom offered by a lack of gravity also presents a number of limits when it co… [+6902 chars]
ByAnne Trafton, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyJune 4, 2022 MIT chemists have designed a new type of photoredox catalyst that could make it easier to incorporate light-driven reactions into co… [+7352 chars]
ByNancy Neal Jones, NASAs Goddard Space Flight CenterJune 4, 2022 NASAs DAVINCI mission will study the origin, evolution, and present state of Venus in unprecedented detail from near the top of the … [+9985 chars]
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 … [+5780 chars]
NASA announced this week that it will buy five more SpaceX Crew Dragon missions to transport humans to the International Space Station. Despite the fact that NASAs press release does not directly st… [+3591 chars]
During its first couple hundred days in Jezero Crater, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover saw some of the most intense dust activity ever witnessed by a mission sent to the Red Planet's surface. Not only… [+5505 chars]
The Croods tells the story of a prehistoric family just trying to survive in a world which is still almost entirely wild. While the family spends most of their time stuck in their cave at the behest … [+4180 chars]
The lightning protection system at NASA's Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39B recently intercepted the most powerful lightning strike ever recorded at the spaceport. When this event occurred, the age… [+1739 chars]
Scientists have discovered that an ultra-reactive chemical in Earth’s atmosphere lasts much longer than we previously believed. In fact, they believe that millions of tons of the chemical could linge… [+2534 chars]
NASA plans to acquire five additional crewed flights to the International Space Station from SpaceX as part of its Commercial Crew Transportation Capabilities (CCtCap) contract. NASA says the additio… [+1873 chars]
Summary: Zebra finches have stable personality traits and some of the traits enabled the birds to come up with innovative solutions to complex foraging tasks, a new study reports. Source: University… [+5612 chars]
