Trilobites -- extinct marine arthropods that roamed the world's oceans from about 520 million years ago until they went extinct 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period -- may have gro… [+2570 chars]
A semiconductor is a material whose conductivity lies somewhere between that of a conductor and an insulator. This property allows semiconductors to serve as the base material for modern electronics … [+6286 chars]
The surface of LARES-2 is covered in hundreds of reflectors that will reflect laser pulses sent out by a global network of laser-ranging stations.Credit: CNES/ESA/Arianespace/Optique Vidéo CSG/P. Bau… [+6172 chars]
For years, scientists have wondered why Jupiter doesn't have thick, bright rings like neighboring Saturn does, and now they think they might know why. Though Jupiter does have faint, nebulous rin… [+3697 chars]
The James Webb Space Telescope is a machine of many talents. It can peer through dense space dust, glimpse the stellar drama of distant galaxies, and even observe the universes first stars. But som… [+9138 chars]
Water is life, but for all its importance, humanity has a surprisingly limited view of Earth's freshwater bodies. Researchers have reliable water level measurements for only a few thousand lakes arou… [+6138 chars]
Fernando Temprano-Coleto has always loved machines. As a child, he was fascinated by cars and engines, and he envisioned himself becoming an engineer for a private company. He began a bachelors degre… [+2367 chars]
In 2023 the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will hurtle through dust and debris left in the inner ... [+] solar system by Halley's comet in 1986. (Photo by F. Carter Smith/Sygma via Getty Images) … [+3705 chars]
Not everyone is into science or even cares how it works. But sometimes science is too cool to ignore. The scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are revisiting an old hypothesis fr… [+2725 chars]
Scientists at a U.S. government plasma lab have discovered a missing component in nuclear fusion equations that could speed up development of a working reactor. Specifically, the discovery could imp… [+3524 chars]
We all knew Tyrannosaurus rex as one of the most formidable dinosaurs to ever walk the Earth until a study published in the spring suggested a radical idea: could the T-rex we know actually be three … [+5793 chars]
Online jokes about Tiktaalik roseae, the famous four-legged "fishapod" that first appeared on land 375 million years ago, have been going around throughout the epidemic. In the majority of depictions… [+4926 chars]
