The Mars sailplanes will contain a custom-designed array of navigation sensors, as well as a camera and temperature and gas sensors to gather information about the Martian atmosphere and landscape. C… [+1532 chars]
Touted as the first idea of its kind, the team is not stopping at just building a base on the moon and Mars. Interestingly, the Lunar and Mars Glass concepts are just one part of a larger project; th… [+1278 chars]
How does a nose remember that it's a nose? Or an eye remember that it's an eye? As scientists probe the question of how cells remember what kind of cells they are supposed to be, or their genetic li… [+8204 chars]
Many historical buildings were built of sandstone, including Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral. Sandstone is easy to work with, but does not withstand weathering. It consists of sand grains that are r… [+4193 chars]
Has life ever existed on Mars? Could it still exist there today? These questions intrigue scientists and the public alike. And digging into them could require exactly that — going underground on Mar… [+8329 chars]
Finding a three-eyed extinct species is strange enough discovering its beautifully preserved brain and nervous system when it has been dead for half a billion years is a paleontologist's dream. The R… [+3426 chars]
Earth's mantle is the thick layer of silicate rock between Earth's crust and its molten core, making up about 84% of our planet's volume. The mantle is predominantly solid but, on geologic time scale… [+3628 chars]
The amount of carbon stored by microscopic plankton will increase in the coming century, predict researchers at the University of Bristol and the National Oceanography Centre (NOC). Using the latest… [+4504 chars]
A next-generation dark matter detector has started operations, already delivering its first results, which show it to be the most sensitive machine of this type on Earth. The machine could help unl… [+4074 chars]
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) has made astonishing progress in recent years, mastering an increasing range of tasks that now include Atari video games1, board games such as chess and Go2,… [+31418 chars]
As a huge comet makes its closest approach to Earth on Wednesday (July 13), you might be curious why it's so hard to spot. Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS), called K2 for short, is one of the farthest ac… [+4011 chars]
Article body copy From Australia to the Arctic, kelp forests are disappearing as the ocean heats up. But in some places, such as in the chilly waters off Englands southwest coast, the struggling kel… [+4105 chars]
