Starship’s heavy lift capacity, in orbit refueling, and potential aerobraking role could significantly accelerate a long-awaited mission to Uranus.
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Research is shaking up how we think about evolution, suggesting there's a level of predictability influenced by genes and genetic history.
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A fungus that evolved at Chernobyl and is now grown on the ISS, Cladosporium sphaerospermum, slightly reduced radiation levels.
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"The risk of harm coming to anyone on Earth is low — approximately 1 in 4,200."
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Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd., a British company best known for developing small satellites, will help build a large, privately funded space telescope.
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Deep-sea waters are warming due to heat waves and climate change, and it could spell trouble for the oceans' delicate chemical and biological balance. However, a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences demonstrates that the microbe …
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Even when the idea of terraforming Mars was originally put forward, the idea was daunting. Changing the environment of an entire planet is not something to do easily. Over the following decades, plenty of scientists and engineers have looked at the problem, a…
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What hardware hacker doesn’t have a soft spot for transparent cases? While they may have fallen out of mainstream favor, they have an undeniable appeal to anyone with an interest in electroni…
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A new paper makes the strange case for prime numbers at the heart of physics.
Read full articleA 10-year-old girl out on a shoreline stroll on a Wales beach literally stumbled upon five prehistoric dinosaur footprints.
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If the concept comes to life, scientists would have a field day exploring lightning with remarkable ease.
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The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.
Read full articleA study shows evidence of Neanderthal “fat factories” dating back as far as 125,000 years ago.
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What if a 125-million-year-old scorpion had been hiding in China's fossil beds all along? Scientists just found something unexpected.
Read full articleEon Systems PBC on Sunday released a demonstration showing a digital model of a fruit fly brain connected to a physics-simulated body that produces behaviors such as walking, grooming and feeding. The model was built using the FlyWire connectome with approxim…
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For the first time, meteorologists have glimpsed the tiny bursts of ultraviolet light emitted by trees during thunderstorms.
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An incredible discovery has been made in a cave: footprints and handprints left by ancient humans, dating back 14,000 years.
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