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Wringing wet cloth in space: Astronaut demonstrates water's fascinating property Jun 23, 2022, 10:59 am2 min read A video showing astronaut Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, wringing a w… [+1703 chars]
NASA announced in May that its InSight Mars landera spacecraft that has spent nearly four years investigating Martian geology and seismic activitywould likely cease scientific operations in mid-summe… [+2776 chars]
How hard can insects bite? Having a strong chewing apparatus makes it easier to crush harder food and to succeed in fights with enemies. Biologists at the University of Bonn now present a mobile syst… [+4474 chars]
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For such a small insect, fire ants can be a very big problem. Invasive species of fire ant reached North America in the 1930s from Argentina and spread fast in southern states of the US, currently co… [+3852 chars]
Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features the Talampaya National Park in the La Rioja Province of Argentina. The photo was captured by an astronaut onboard the International Space… [+748 chars]
A massive sunspot present on the Earth-facing side of the solar disk could pose a threat to the Earth. A dark sunspot has recently emerged on the Sun and is facing the Earth, increasing the risk of s… [+1912 chars]
Research journals are being cloned online to scam scientists.Credit: MShieldsPhotos/Alamy Hijacked journals scam websites that impersonate legitimate titles have duped unsuspecting researchers out o… [+4258 chars]
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Plutos largest moon Charon captured by Nasa's New Horizons spacecraft in July 2015. (Reuters) When Nasa's tiny New Horizons probe travelled 3 billion miles to Pluto it spotted something mysterious o… [+3572 chars]
Asteroseismology - one of the most fascinating and sophisticated methods for measuring the mass of stars, and by extension, their age - can also be successfully used to reveal the characteristics of … [+5812 chars]
