A 15-year study details the origins and diversity of every known mineral on Earth, a landmark body of work that will help reconstruct the history of life on Earth, guide the search for new minerals a… [+5299 chars]
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is the world's first full-scale planetary defence test against potential asteroid impacts on Earth. Researchers now show that instead of leaving… [+4007 chars]
A lot of heat gets lost during the conversion of energy. Estimates even put it at more than 70%. However, in thermoelectric materials, such as those being studied at the Institute of Solid State Phys… [+4272 chars]
As we earthlings go about our days with nothing out of the ordinary happening to hinder our routines, the circumstances at the very heart of our solar system over 150 million kilometres away are not … [+1538 chars]
A NASA engineer, in partnership with the University of Arizona, has developed a motorless airplane that can fly on Mars for days at a time. Called 'sailplanes', this new device will use only the wind… [+2831 chars]
License and Republishing World Economic Forum articles may be republished in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License, and in acc… [+130 chars]
When the coronavirus causing COVID-19 infects human cells, the cell's protein-processing machinery makes modifications to the spike protein that render it more flexible and mobile, which could increa… [+5462 chars]
The European Space Agency (ESA) on Tuesday release its new space exploration roadmap dubbed Terrae Novae 2030+ to secure Europe's role in space exploration and return its benefits to society. The doc… [+1936 chars]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Tuesday announced that it has lost contact with a $32.7 million Capstone spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit. … [+1884 chars]
NASA has unveiled a new small satellite which will measure the inbound solar radiation to improve its understanding of how the sun affects weather on Earth. Already launched on July 2 aboard STP-28A,… [+1957 chars]
When the coronavirus causing COVID-19 infects human cells, the cell's protein-processing machinery makes modifications to the spike protein that render it more flexible and mobile, which could increa… [+5462 chars]
A giant asteroid caused the extinction of dinosaurs and a few other dominant species when it hit the Earth around 66 million years ago. The impact was so big that it sent massive chunks of debris int… [+1763 chars]
