A light-operating fish bot has been developed by scientists. This fish robot is able to swiftly move about, gathering up and eliminating plastic particles from their natural surroundings. It has pro… [+1707 chars]
Spoiler alert: if you ever find yourself engaged in a staring contest with a snake, you'll lose. "Because snakes don't have eyelids, they cannot blink," explains Bruno Simões, a researcher at the Un… [+2807 chars]
After half a year of in-space commissioning work, NASA will release the first science images from its next-generation space observatory in July. Here's how you can tune in to the historic event for f… [+2572 chars]
Despite partly cloudy skies expected in the area tonight, you may want to go out early tomorrow morning and look up to see The Parade of Planets before cloudier skies move in ahead of weekend storm c… [+2534 chars]
Astronomers were alerted regarding an asteroid that was heading toward Earth. It was already nearby as it appeared on the planet's blindspot, giving the researchers limited time to act. The good thin… [+2933 chars]
The Mercury-bound probe BepiColombo has taken its second look at its target planet today during a superclose flyby designed to slow the spacecraft down and adjust its trajectory. BepiColombo is a … [+4560 chars]
Hubble recently captured a dazzling image of the heart of globular cluster Terzan 9, a bright ball of stars 23,000 light years away. Globular clusters are tightly packed groups of tens of thousand… [+1879 chars]
What properties would we expect to see when solutions of nucleotide monomers are dried on a mica surface? Because the surface of the mica was rinsed with a stream of water, most of the monomers shoul… [+14442 chars]
A gigantic sunspot has swelled to twice Earth's size, doubling its diameter in 24 hours, and it's pointed right at us. The sunspot, called AR3038, grew to 2.5 times Earth's size making the sunspot … [+4908 chars]
The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted evidence of a white dwarf star devouring rocky and icy material from its own system, suggesting that water and other volatiles might be common in the outer reac… [+2500 chars]
Sensory overload: simulation of a proton-proton collision at the Large Hadron Collider. (Courtesy: CERN) Deep learning could hold the key to making sense of proton collisions generated in the world… [+7188 chars]
After half a year of in-space commissioning work, NASA will release the first science images from its next-generation space observatory in July. Here's how you can tune in to the historic event for f… [+2572 chars]