Scientists Built Prosthetic ‘Skin’ That Mimics One Crucial Feature of Pain : ScienceAlert
A prosthetic limb can help people to stand, walk, or run again. But it cannot always warn them…
Humpback whales have been seen helping seals, sea lions and even sunfish escape orca attacks — intervening in hunts involving animals from entirely different species for reasons researchers still cannot fully explain
An ocean sunfish looks like a design somebody abandoned halfway through, a giant grey dinner plate with a…
NASA has demonstrated a satellite that can determine its own orbit without GPS by photographing other spacecraft and debris, matching them against a catalogue of 20,000 objects, and using them as moving landmarks—a first-of-its-kind system that could eventually help spacecraft navigate near the Moon and Mars.
NASA says a spacecraft in its Starling CubeSat swarm has determined its own orbit without GPS by observing…
From cello tape to bottles, Bengaluru students put physics in action at planetarium exhibition
BENGALURU: Transparent sticky tape, discarded plastic bottles and lightweight ping-pong balls stepped out of everyday clutter and onto…
Powerhouse Parramatta home to new observatory with telescopes powerful enough to see distant galaxies
More than two centuries after a famed observatory was built in Parramatta, a new one has been constructed…
The massive gap in Labor’s renewables plan
The federal government has spent years declaring its ambitions for Australia to become a renewable energy superpower, exporting…
On January 27, 2025, asteroid 2024 YR4 crossed the 1% impact-probability threshold; two days later, the International Asteroid Warning Network sent its first-ever formal asteroid warning to the UN’s space office—activating a planetary-defence protocol created more than a decade earlier but never previously used.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 did not hit Earth, and it will not do so in 2032. Its importance lies…
The electrically charged gas drifting between the stars rings at a pitch between a few hundred and a few thousand hertz, comfortably inside the range of human hearing, which is why NASA engineers can feed a recording straight from Voyager 1 into an ordinary loudspeaker and listen to interstellar space
“In space, no one can hear you scream.” Alien’s tagline is one of the most quoted lines in…
NASA Announces Next Steps for Swift Rescue Mission
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, launched in 2004 to study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), has vastly outlived its original…
Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point
For years, the economic case for solar came with an awkward qualification. Yes, it had no fuel bill.…
Artemis II astronauts receive nation’s highest space honor for their successful moonshot | Artemis II
The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon in April received the US’s highest space honor on…
Random walks get pushy | Santa Fe Institute
When physicists study a “random walk,” they’re investigating the path followed when you’re allowed to take each step…