Chaos in natural populations appears to be much more common than previously recognized, according to a new analysis by scientists at UC Santa Cruz and NOAA Fisheries. Populations of organisms in nat… [+3072 chars]
NASA says that its mission to the asteroid 16 Psyche will no longer be able to launch in 2022 after engineers were unable to verify the readiness of the spacecraft’s software. What could amount to b… [+4113 chars]
Scientists from Tel Aviv University (TAU) have developed a camera system that can recognize the colors of the infrared spectrum that doesn’t require the converting to the visible spectrum after the f… [+2800 chars]
NASA is launching a small spacecraft to test the planned orbit around the moon for its upcoming lunar gateway. The mission, named Capstone, is a key step in returning astronauts to the surface of th… [+2320 chars]
Fireflies are one of the best parts of warm summer nights. The dancing, flickering lights of these tiny bugs have enamored people for centuries. Now, a group of scientists at MIT have created robot l… [+2627 chars]
On February 11th, 2016, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the detection of gravitational waves (GW) for the first time. As predicted by Einstein’… [+5140 chars]
A total of 1,038 publicly available ocean microbial community genomes (metagenomes) were collected at 215 globally distributed sites. Credit: GEBCO, NOAA, CHS, OSU, UNH, CSUMB, National Geographic, D… [+4272 chars]
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question youd like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. How many ice ages has the Earth had, and could … [+4358 chars]
Scientists from the Institute of Laser Engineering at Osaka University created a prototype terahertz optical spectroscopy system with a sensing area equivalent to the cross-sectional area of just fiv… [+2923 chars]
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The days of dial-up internet, AOL Instant Messenger, and Myspace may be over on Earth, but on Mars, the early years of the internet still live on. A Martian spacecraft has been running on software de… [+2959 chars]
ByUniversity of Texas at AustinJune 27, 2022 Origin of Life artists concept. The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been… [+4981 chars]
