Venus has been called Earths evil twin, and that's notsadlybecause it looks just like Earth but has a mustache. This episode of The List Show dives into that intriguing moniker along with 99 other … [+611 chars]
New Zealand has a research ticket to work on the International Space Station. The country partnered with commercial research company Axiom Space on July 28 to fly experiments on future missions with… [+3193 chars]
The hypothalamus is best known as the controller of hormone secretion to regulate essential bodily functions such as reproduction and feeding, and is one of the only brain structures to demonstrate a… [+10078 chars]
Look to the west-northwestern sky shortly after sunset on Wednesday (Aug. 3) to catch a glimpse of Mercury shining close to Leo's "heart," its brightest star Regulus. The pair will be close enough … [+2051 chars]
The Earth has recorded its personal best time for a single rotation and scientists are now theorising that it may have been caused by the melting polar ice caps. Earth from space. File photo. Photo:… [+2920 chars]
Physicists are (temporarily) augmenting reality to crack the code of quantum systems. Predicting the properties of a molecule or material requires calculating the collective behavior of its electron… [+4088 chars]
Back in 2014, an object crashed into the ocean just off the coast of Papua New Guinea. Data collected at the time indicated that the meteorite just might be an interstellar object, and if thats true,… [+4691 chars]
image: In a new approach to replicating quantum entanglement, additional "ghost" electrons are controlled by an artificial intelligence technique called a neural network. The network makes tweaks unt… [+4565 chars]
It's sunburn season. Many of us have experienced the pain and peeling that comes from unprotected time in the sun, but we may not focus on a remarkable and vital part of the process: the regeneration… [+4640 chars]
It was just a piece of junk sitting in the back of a lab at the MIT Nuclear Reactor facility, ready to be disposed of. But it became the key to demonstrating a more comprehensive way of detecting ato… [+8081 chars]
A two-pound surgical robot is headed to the International Space Station in 2024 to test its abilities. The robot will work autonomously, though it can also be operated remotely. It will run through a… [+1958 chars]
A pair of researchers at the University of California's, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has found that the slow swimming lionfish is able to catch and eat faster prey by using persis… [+2465 chars]
