Several lines of evidence suggest that insects' central nervous system processes pain in a way far more like ourselves than anyone has been willing to admit. Scientists once performed what we now co… [+3955 chars]
The records keep falling for the U.S. Space Force's robotic X-37B space plane. As of today (July 7), the X-37B has been in Earth orbit for 781 days, breaking its previous record of 780. The reusa… [+3394 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]
Yesterday, a crack opened in Earths magnetic field and stayed open for nearly 14 hours, allowing Vecna and his minions through from the Upside Down. OK, perhaps not that last bit, but it did allow so… [+2414 chars]
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]
Chinese space scientists have said they successfully used a huge space sail to remove debris from Earth's orbit. Announced by the Shanghai Academy of Spaceflight Technology on July 6, the huge sail … [+2927 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]
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]
Two sounding rockets are launching from Australia this month, carrying experiments designed to measure whether the ultraviolet light coming from the stars of the Alpha Centauri system could be harmfu… [+4852 chars]
Rapid bursts of radio waves that originate millions to billions of light-years away from Earth could be used as probes to investigate halos of difficult-to-see diffuse gas surrounding nearby galaxies… [+4088 chars]
There's been a lot of trash-talking about the International Space Station (ISS) recently. Roughly 172 pounds (78 kilograms) of garbage was ejected in a specialized trash bag from the station's comme… [+2610 chars]
Meraxes gigas, a newly discovered species of dinosaur with disproportionally short arms just like T. rex. Credit: Jorge A Gonzalez Meraxes gigas a new species of dinosaur has been discovered with di… [+4040 chars]
