The international LHCb collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has observed three never-before-seen particles: a new kind of pentaquark and the first-ever pair of tetraquarks, which includes… [+4070 chars]
A small NASA satellite broke free from its orbit around Earth Monday and is now headed toward the moon, signaling a step in the right direction for the space program's efforts to put astronauts on th… [+3238 chars]
Infographic: The Rise of Data Storytelling Humanity is creating more data than ever before, and more of that data is publicly accessible. While “data is the new oil” has almost become a cliché, the… [+6063 chars]
An international team of researchers has discovered 1.2-billion-year-old groundwater deep in a gold- and uranium-producing mine in Moab Khotsong, South Africa, shedding more light on how life is sust… [+4559 chars]
In the dog (or dog-adjacent) days of summer the mind of the horological writer, exhausted from an intemperate climate, the general alarming state of the world, and the first half of the year's cornuc… [+8481 chars]
The machines weve sent to Mars are great at selling real estate. They transmit hauntingly beautiful, color-balanced images of ancient and untouched hills and valleys, and the fractured, alien rocks o… [+10016 chars]
It was on Independence Day 25 years ago that a little rover named after a Civil War abolitionist parachuted and tumbled to the Red Planet's surface on airbags. NASA's first-ever Mars rover, dubbed S… [+4225 chars]
Thirsty? Alcoholic Scientists say they've found alcohol molecules in space though, unfortunately, it's not the type that gets you drunk. A team from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in… [+2203 chars]
Astronauts on space missions lasting longer than six months suffer decades' worth of bone loss, much of which could be irreversible, a new study has found. The finding may present a serious challenge… [+6362 chars]
University College Cork (UCC) paleontologists have discovered why hundreds of fossil frogs died in an ancient swamp 45 million years ago: It happened during mating. The watery death trap in the Geis… [+2718 chars]
Paris, the capital of France, is awash with history; it's home to the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe, Notre-Dame Cathedral and the Louvre , the world's most-visited museum (opens in new tab). Yet,… [+7196 chars]
Rare, elliptical craters spotted on two of Saturn's moons reveal new clues about the satellites' age and formation, a new study shows. Using data from NASA's Cassini mission , researchers from the… [+3489 chars]
