If you are skilled at playing puzzles on your smartphone or tablet, what does it say about how fast you learn new puzzles, or, more broadly, how well you can focus, say, in school or at work? Or, in … [+4080 chars]
As greenhouse effects become increasingly prominent, soil carbon has been a major focus of research on climate change. Soil microorganisms are the key groups that drive soil carbon transformation. Du… [+3721 chars]
Science & Exploration20/06/2022290 views12 likes The ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission is gearing up for its second close flyby of Mercury on 23 June. ESAs spacecraft operation team is guiding BepiCo… [+6492 chars]
NASA is counting down the fourth attempt at completing a practice launch day exercise with its Artemis 1 vehicle on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida. The June 20 Wet Dress … [+8520 chars]
France is the latest signatory to NASA’s worldwide pact to make best practices for constant participation in moon investigation, the Artemis Accords. The signing occurred on June 7 and adds to a qui… [+3017 chars]
A team of researchers at University College London has developed a way to keep objects levitated by sound waves airborne when other objects interfere with the levitation path. In their paper publishe… [+2650 chars]
The blue spiral appeared in the night sky above New Zealand on Sunday. The stargazers in New Zealand were surprised by strange, spiralling light formations in the night sky on Sunday night. The phot… [+2269 chars]
At a 4,000-meter-long lab facility more than a mile beneath Russias Caucasus mountains, an experiment involving close to two dozen metallic disks composed of a rare radioisotope has revealed an anoma… [+5923 chars]
The SOFIA aircraft has returned to New Zealand for a final time ahead of the mission's conclusion later this year. The Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is a modified Boeing 7… [+2462 chars]
The Rosetta mission to comet 67P/ChuryumovGerasimenko found unexpectedly high concentrations of molecular oxygen in its atmosphere. New results show that these concentrations are enhanced by a cycle … [+2276 chars]
Its not just a problem for NASAs James Webb Space Telescope Last week, NASA revealed that one of JWSTs primary mirror segments, shown here, was damaged by a larger than expected micrometeoroid. Ima… [+6912 chars]
Washington, June 20 The International Space Station (ISS) has successfully evaded orbital debris coming from a Russian anti-satellite weapons test, according to a media report. Russia’s space agenc… [+2027 chars]