In his book, Endurance, astronaut Scott Kelly described the arduous task of readjusting to life on Earth after spending a year in space. As part of NASA’s Twins Study, Kelly lived and worked aboard t… [+7480 chars]
Scientists in Argentina have discovered a new giant carnivorous dinosaur species that had a massive head and tiny arms. The dinosaur, which resembles Tyrannosaurus rex, has been named Meraxes gigas … [+1326 chars]
4.6 billion years Before Present: The earth is a mixture of dust and gas. It will be a billion years before the first life forms evolve, and a couple billion more before the first plants. . 1.6 bil… [+4937 chars]
To address energy costs rising and the rapidly emerging effects of burning fossil fuels on the global climate, new tools are being sought to enable a switch from fossil-to renewable carbon (biomass) … [+2123 chars]
Rapid bursts of radio waves from millions to billions of light-years away could be employed as probes to study halos of difficult-to-see hazy gas encircling closer galaxies. These pulses, known as f… [+3498 chars]
We can model the motions of planets in the Solar System quite accurately using Newton's laws of physics. But in the early 1970s, scientists noticed that this didn't work for disc galaxies - stars at … [+6350 chars]
ByCalifornia Institute of TechnologyJuly 8, 2022 An artists depiction of a bacterial cell. Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/James Archer Since its inception, chemotherapy has prov… [+7611 chars]
An intrepid traveller having a penchant for roads less taken. An occasional sketcher who enjoys designing something new. A fearless physicist who believes she can accomplish anything even in the face… [+6816 chars]
Our living planet is unique among all we've been able to explore in the Universe so far. From our axial tilt preventing too many temperature extremes, to our goldilocks zone position, life on Earth d… [+4018 chars]
Residents of North Island in Wellington, New Zealand, were stunned by the sight of a rare meteor tearing across the sky on Thursday afternoon. Witnesses reported seeing a bright flash in the sky and … [+1230 chars]
In July 2012, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) team at CERN, the pan-European Organisation for Nuclear Research, announced proof of the existence of the so-called Higgs boson. This elusive particle ha… [+1358 chars]
Days after being launched from New Zealand, the mission headed to the Moon gave a brief shock to Nasa when it failed to communicate in the darkness of space. But not for long, and communication has b… [+2294 chars]
