He carried a piece of Western into space and landed it safely home again. And now, Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques will help launch new graduates into the next stages of their lives. Saint-J… [+2884 chars]
13 June 2022Updated 2 hours ago Credit, Stocktrek Images/Getty Images The plane banked a lot to the right. As we made our first flyby of the runwayor rather, the small patch of rough land in the ar… [+7163 chars]
The first detection of what appears to be a rogue black hole drifting through the Milky Way, revealed earlier this year, just got important validation. A second team of scientists, conducting a sepa… [+5500 chars]
Advancing technology is shedding light on dinosaurs like never before. Dinosaur belly buttons are the latest discovery to come out of these closer looks at old fossils. Baby animals, like birds and r… [+2069 chars]
As the Perseverance rover continues to trundle on the cratered world of Mars collecting unique samples to be sent home, a team is prepping back on Earth to ensure the first samples from the alien pla… [+2552 chars]
Lasers use coherent waves of light: All the light inside a laser vibrates completely in sync. Meanwhile, quantum mechanics tells us that particles like atoms should also be thought of as waves. As a … [+5798 chars]
Watch for the patterns created as the circles move across each other. Those patterns, created by two sets of lines offset from each other, are called moiré (pronounced mwar-AY) effects. As optical il… [+6361 chars]
A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is brimming with distant galaxies in an assortment of shapes. Some are seen face-on and appear oval or as disks or spirals, while others are seen edge-o… [+3086 chars]
Specialized genome analysis can predict the risk of having one of the most common types of miscarriage, researchers report. In the journal Human Genetics, researchers describe a technique combining … [+2760 chars]
A new study published in Nature Communications demonstrates how changes in temperature and plate tectonics, where the positions of Earth's continents were in very different positions than today, have… [+5037 chars]
A German telescope installed on a Russian satellite is coveted. The big boss of the Russian space agency has, in fact, threatened to take control of the instrument, put on standby for three months, b… [+5144 chars]
Researchers have tracked the first fractions of a second after light strikes solar cells, providing insights into how they produce electricity. Probing the very first moments of the process of conve… [+3649 chars]
