Two Russian astronauts ended their spacewalk earlier than planned on Wednesday as one of them had a battery issue with his spacesuit, Russia's state space corporation Roscosmos said.Cosmonauts Oleg A… [+1283 chars]
James Clugston was on the hunt for a type of tarantula called a "baboon spider" in South Africa when something else grabbed his attention. "This one plant stood out to me it's blue, but it's super, … [+4620 chars]
The team demonstrated the shape-morphing flexibility of the material to Reuters, with models of a butterfly and flower made from the textile, performing complex motions in their lab. Team leader Tha… [+1182 chars]
A team of physicists at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Quantum Matter has discovered that they can control a metal's electromagnetic properties by manipulating it mechanically. The finding suggests … [+4740 chars]
The alarm goes off in the morning. You catch your morning train to the office. You take a lunch break. You catch your evening train back. You go for an hour's run. Eat dinner. Go to bed. Repeat. Birt… [+3638 chars]
The oscillations in binary neutron stars before they merge could have big implications for the insights scientists can glean from gravitational wave detection. Researchers at the University of Birmi… [+3244 chars]
Understanding ice loss in Antarctica has been improved by a range of research into causes of ice shelves and glacier retreat on the frozen continent. Multiple studies have recently shown that increa… [+6174 chars]
On August 20 1977, 45 years ago, an extraordinary spacecraft left this planet on a journey like no other. Voyager 2 was going to show us, for the first time, what the outer solar system planets looke… [+5202 chars]
Earlier this year we learned that humans and dolphins have more in common than we thought, but while they have the ability to um, experience pleasure similar to humans, theyre a little bit (read: a l… [+3522 chars]
Meet R136a1, the most massive star known. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, it's a hulking behemoth weighing somewhere between 150 and 200 times the mass of the sun. Understanding the upper limi… [+2411 chars]
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Astronomers at Western Sydney University have discovered one of the biggest black hole jets in the sky. Spanning more than a million light years from end to end, the jet shoots away from a black hol… [+3716 chars]
