China’s Mars sample return mission aims to collect samples from the Red Planet and deliver them to Earth in 2031, or two years ahead of a NASA and ESA joint mission, said a media report. According t… [+1505 chars]
The largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter may have cannibalised multiple baby planets, a new study has found. Turns out, you don't become the largest planet in a solar system by being nice. A … [+2056 chars]
Once again, life has been found in an environment that would be deeply inhospitable to most organisms living on this planet. Fed by waters that pass through 600 meters (1,970 ft) of permafrost, the … [+4284 chars]
Astrophotographer Jamie Cooper captured an incredible photograph of the International Space Station passing in front of the sun from his backyard garden. Speaking to PetaPixel, Cooper says he had le… [+2315 chars]
Where next for levelling up and social mobility? Where does last night’s Tory defeat in the Wakefield by-election leave levelling up? It is a question relevant to universities, which often find them… [+246 chars]
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A spiral wave of electrical activity in the heart can cause catastrophic consequences. One spiral wave creates tachycardia -- a heart rate that's too fast -- and multiple spirals cause a state of dis… [+3308 chars]
A team led by researchers at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, with collaborators from the University of Pretoria (South Africa), as well as Mexico and Scotland, have… [+4933 chars]
A 42-year-old man with schizophrenia and human immunodeficiency syndrome swallowed several glass shards in an attempted suicide. Two days later, he was admitted to the ER of the Florianópolis Hospita… [+8258 chars]
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A toaster-sized probe will soon scope out a special orbit around the moon, the path planned for NASAs Lunar Gateway space station. The Gateway, to be rolled out later this decade, will be a staging p… [+3512 chars]
An international group of astronomers, led by Juan Diego Soler of the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), have found the imprint of the bubbles produced by the explosion of dying star… [+4608 chars]