Time to get your laser blasters ready again to hunt down aliens — or at least alien galaxies. A new NASA browser game (opens in new tab) aims to recreate the 1978 arcade and Atari classic, "Space In… [+3953 chars]
Animal borne cameras now give scientists unprecedented access into the visual world of animals, including the life and death struggles of hunters and their prey. For the first time, new research, pu… [+4505 chars]
Experienced cooks can determine when cooking oil has reached the right temperature for deep-frying by inserting moistened chopsticks in the hot oil. Bubbles form on the sticks and the sizzling sound … [+3148 chars]
Otters learn skills from each otherbut they also solve some mysteries alone, new research shows. University of Exeter scientists gave Asian short-clawed otters "puzzle boxes" containing familiar foo… [+2746 chars]
The origin of life on Earth is one of the great mysteries of science, but new research says that the answer is so simple that not only could a high school chemistry class reproduce it, but it might h… [+3509 chars]
Humans could need some surprising things to survive on Mars according to new research. getty When will humans land on Mars? A recent report suggested 2038 as the most likely launch year for a crew… [+4108 chars]
Orbiting the sun at a distance of 2.8 billion miles (4.5 billion kilometers), Neptune is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and third-largest by mass, having a diameter of 30,598 miles (49,244 kil… [+11482 chars]
NASA recently shared an eye-catching image of our neighbor galaxy, Andromeda, captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Located about 2.5 million light-years from our Sun, Andromed… [+850 chars]
17 with 13 posters participating The pop of a champagne cork turns out to have something in common with a rocket launcher, according to a recent paper published in the journal Physics of Fluids. Sci… [+5090 chars]
By simulating earthquakes in a lab, Caltech engineers have provided strong experimental support for a form of earthquake propagation now thought responsible for the magnitude-9.0 earthquake that deva… [+5332 chars]
Thelatest Virtual Issue from Genome Biology and Evolution highlights articles that provide new insight into the deep evolutionary relationships among extant organisms and the origin of eukaryotes fro… [+9895 chars]
ByEleni Ravanis, University of Hawaii at MnoaJune 7, 2022 Mars Perseverance Sol 449 Front Left Hazard Avoidance Camera: The same rock still in the rovers front left wheel on sol 449, image acquired … [+4422 chars]
