For the past six months, Scott Friedman and a team of roughly 160 scientists and engineers have been working through one of the most daunting to-do lists in all of science. Nearly every day, they dro… [+12040 chars]
Nightstick’s new Model XPR-5553G is a rechargeable headlamp with a Class I, Division 1 rating. The light comes with a zero band mounting kit, and a traditional rubber strap. The model also features a… [+230 chars]
Raging winds, dusty harsh terrains - this isn't an alien planet, it's Mount Etna on the Italian island of Sicily. Experts from the European Space Agency (ESA) and DLR, the German Aerospace Center, h… [+3717 chars]
There are other ways to learn more about dark matter besides dark matter experiments. We may know a lot about dark matter by making precise measurements of many cosmic characteristics, such as the pr… [+2242 chars]
Around 4.4 billion years ago, the early solar system resembled a game of space rock dodgeball, as massive asteroids and comets, and, later, smaller rocks and galactic debris pummeled the moon and oth… [+6497 chars]
Wherever humans go, they generate trash. On the International Space Station, there's no garbage truck swinging by once a week to clear out the junk. Over the weekend, NASA and space company Nanoracks… [+1901 chars]
Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the worlds largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, nationa… [+139 chars]
Getting humans to Mars may be more difficult than NASA originally thought. Not only will we need to develop technology to help humans survive on the Red Planet, but a new study has revealed more deta… [+2363 chars]
The next time someone asks you to stop sharing your fun facts about rare coins, or teases you about your obsession with Norse mythology, tell them you’re working on your brain health. According to a… [+5460 chars]
NASAs New Horizons spacecraft has seen amazing things since it launched over sixteen years ago. It has cruised by Jupiter, peeked at erupting volcanos on Io, and most famously, zipped past Pluto, bec… [+523 chars]
Chemokine receptors regulate the migration of immune cells and are involved in inflammation, tumor construction and pathogen infection. Chemokines are divided into four subfamilies according to the n… [+3517 chars]
Migratory birds have been called the super-athletes of the animal kingdom because of the remarkable endurance they display during hours-long, non-stop flights that can span thousands of kilometers. T… [+3825 chars]
