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]
A new quantum entanglement record has just been set by physicists at Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) who successfully connected two rubidium atoms across 33 kilometers (20 miles) of fiber optic ca… [+2612 chars]
A research team led by Prof. Zhao Gang from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, collaborating with Prof. Liu Huilan from the First Affiliated … [+2436 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]
Ethan Schaler, a robotics mechanical engineer at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, loves the idea of exploring new worlds. He also loves acronyms, based on his project called Se… [+5211 chars]
Yikes! Cosmic Collapse Have you ever indulged the depths of your intrusive thoughts and wondered how the universe is going to smash and chew up our little planet over billions of years? Well, that… [+2198 chars]
ByUniversity of CologneJuly 7, 2022 Artists illustration of a black hole. A star was discovered zipping around the black hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way, at an astonishing speed of 8… [+3477 chars]
Nitriles, a class of organic molecules with a cyano groupthat is, a carbon atom bound with a triple unsaturated bond to a nitrogen atomare typically toxic. But paradoxically, they are also a key prec… [+5510 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]
On June 10, 2021, a partial eclipse of the Sun was visible from Veneta, Italy. If you squint, you can almost make out the rugged surface of the Moon where it passes over our star.
ByETH ZurichJuly 7, 2022 False-color view of total ozone over the Arctic pole during the beginning of 2020. The purple and blue colors are where there is the least ozone, and the yellows and reds ar… [+5347 chars]
A massive skeleton of Gorgosaurus will be up for auction, as per the statement made by the auction house Sothebys in New York on July 28. Some 76 years ago, this relative of Tyrannosaurus rex roamed … [+1642 chars]
