Indonesians may witness the peak of the Perseid meteor shower on August 13-14, 2022, this weekend, the Aviation and Space Research Organization of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) r… [+1318 chars]
In this second portion of a talk at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith (2021), philosopher Steve Meyer discusses the ways in which groundbreaking astronomer Fred Hoyle (19152001) dealt with t… [+8336 chars]
Merger afterglow: artists impression of the afterglow that followed the merger of a neutron star with another star. (Courtesy: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) and M Weiss (NRAO/AUI/NSF)) The aftermath of the m… [+4830 chars]
When Mick Miners first saw a piece of space junk on his property in southeast New South Wales, he thought it was a dead tree. But the 2.7m-tall charred metal object, which pierced the ground and sto… [+8971 chars]
How Many Bones Do Sharks Have In Their Bodies? Sharks are famous for a lot of things. There are the pop culture references, the fear they create of going in the ocean, and also the ‘fact’ that they … [+2920 chars]
ByLawrence Livermore National LaboratoryAugust 14, 2022 On the one-year anniversary of achieving a yield of more than 1.3 megajoules at LLNLs National Ignition Facility, the scientific results of th… [+5816 chars]
As we send more and more satellites into orbit and want to send both human and robotic explorers further out into the solar system, one problem we’re still figuring out is how to deal with space weat… [+2270 chars]
Achieving the conditions needed for ignition has been a long-standing goal for all inertial confinement fusion research and opens access to a new experimental regime where alpha-particle self-heating… [+1671 chars]
An image of the supernova remnant as an orange cloud. (Image credit: Author provided) This article was originally published at The Conversation. (opens in new tab) The publication contributed the ar… [+5861 chars]
The lack of these elements is what causes a stable vocal source in humans that is critical to the evolution of speech. This simplification of the larynx is what gave humans excellent pitch control wi… [+1479 chars]
A new study has found giant isopods deep below the ocean surface in the Gulf of Mexico and it has been called Darth Vader of the seas due to resemblance to the Star Wars villain. The study showed tha… [+1472 chars]
ByBoston University School of MedicineAugust 14, 2022 The newly discovered gene, called MGMT, raises a womans chance of developing Alzheimers. New gene for female Alzheimers disease discovered. Mo… [+5508 chars]
