With its adorable stereo-camera eyes, the Lightweight Rover Unit 1 (LRU1) robot, posing on the black gravel of Italy's Mount Etna, resembles PIXAR's famous animated character WALL-E. LRU1 is one of a… [+3262 chars]
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has selected candidates for its next round of space missions, which are projected to launch between 2026 and 2030. Out of the 13 missions proposed, it is expec… [+3870 chars]
Today’s Image of the Day from NASA Earth Observatory features an astronaut view of the Tunupa Volcano, a dormant volcano in southwestern Bolivia. The volcano is located on a peninsula between two of … [+1122 chars]
The Earth is warming from human activities, primarily because of increased carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. This creates an energy imbalance at the top of the atmosphere c… [+2476 chars]
Solar storms could be causing satellites to drop out of their orbits, according to scientists. European Space Agencys (ESA) Swarm constellation which measures magnetic fields around Earth has begun … [+2838 chars]
We have just scratched the surface, but weve been very dogmatic, he said. That dogma began cracking in the 1990s. Microbiologists found that some bacteria have independently evolved compartments of … [+1753 chars]
Ten years ago this week, two international collaborations of groups of scientists, including a large contingent from Caltech, confirmed that they had found conclusive evidence for the Higgs boson, an… [+8535 chars]
In an article recently published in the open-access journal Materials, researchers discussed the gel evolution of green geopolymers based on copper tailings in marine environments. Study: Gel Evolut… [+6489 chars]
The complex puzzle lock skillfully hides the keyhole by using different designs, such as sliding plate, rotating disc, and pressing spring. In the process of unlocking, the position of the keyhole mu… [+11176 chars]
The climate crisis may be causing fish in the Antarctic to grow skin tumours, according to new research. A study by biologists at the University of Oregon found that fish they observed over a decade… [+293 chars]
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