On August 20, 1977, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft launched to space. Its twin, Voyager 1, launched 16 days later. Today, they are not only the most distant man-made objects — at 12 billion and 14.5 bil… [+4331 chars]
A new study in AGU's Geophysical Research Letters reports on the first detection of a large, distant earthquake in a network of balloon-bound pressure sensors in the stratosphere. The technique could… [+4447 chars]
Quantum computing, a field that relies on the principles of quantum mechanics to calculate outcomes, has the potential to perform tasks too complex for traditional computers and to do so at high spee… [+4872 chars]
Welcome to the wonderful world of necrobotics Why bother to design your own robots when you can just reuse what nature created? This was the thought process behind a research project from engineers… [+3663 chars]
No one wants to think about an “after Earth” scenario, but the truth is that some high-up people in government and science actually are – and if the situation arises, anyone who is left will certainl… [+2619 chars]
No one wants to think about an “after Earth” scenario, but the truth is that some high-up people in government and science actually are – and if the situation arises, anyone who is left will certainl… [+2619 chars]
It was December 29 of last year when Ship 20 performed its fourth and final static fire test. That was the last time any Starship vehicle had performed a static fire test. However, Ship 24 is now bei… [+13547 chars]
A photographer has used his 3D printer to create an impressive 900mm reflector telescope that is so simple to put together that “its like assembling furniture from IKEA.” The design, which Jonathan… [+3882 chars]
Ph.D. candidate GUO Yunlang and Prof. WANG Bo from the Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated the formation of black widow pulsars through ultracompact X-ray binaries (U… [+3302 chars]
The benefits of 3D printing are now widely recognized across a diverse range of industries. In recent years, the aerospace sector has been exploring 3D printing techniques to design and develop innov… [+5473 chars]
When a highly diluted gas is cooled to extremely low temperatures, bizarre properties are revealed. Thus, some gases form a so-called Bose-Einstein condensatea type of matter in which all atoms move … [+5555 chars]
In the northernmost region of the earth the arctic permafrost is melting at an accelerated rate. For more than a decade, an international team of researchers from ETH Zurich, the University of Alaska… [+4188 chars]
