Space launch costs could fall 90% by 2040
Getting something into space has always been incredibly expensive. Every extra pound of equipment has come with a…
Mystery Bones Found in Japan Belong to a Giant Salamander Unlike Any Known
A reconstruction of the Ajimu giant salamander, which is believed to have inhabited the lakes and marshes of…
Canada to deny entry to foreigners who were recently in DR Congo, against U.N. advice
The Canadian government said Sunday it would deny entry to any foreigner who has been to the Democratic…
A tiny universe in a bottle reveals clues to the origins of life
A PhD student in Sydney has produced cosmic dust from scratch by recreating a small piece of the…
Across Titan’s equator, winds have built dunes around 100 metres high and hundreds of kilometres long — but the grains are water ice coated in hydrocarbons that fell out of the moon’s orange atmosphere
Cassini’s radar found dark, nearly parallel dune belts running across Titan’s equatorial regions. Individual ridges are commonly one…
Charlottetown ‘BioBlitz’ encourages Islanders to take part in nature research
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Voyager 1 is still crossing interstellar space with six computers holding about 68 kilobytes of memory between them — less storage than a single compressed photograph on a modern phone
Voyager 1 carries six flight-computer units designed in the early 1970s, and NASA’s own accounting puts their combined…
World’s First Superconducting Quantum Heat Engine Could Transform Quantum Computing
Artistic impression of a superconducting quantum heat engine. Credit: Heikka Valja / Aalto University A machine smaller than…
Have Scientists Built a Cell from Scratch?
According to recent news headlines, the curiously named SpudCell can feed, grow, reproduce, and undergo selection. These are…
DNA from 457 koalas suggests the species nearly went extinct 100,000 years ago, before humans reached Australia
Koalas nearly went extinct before humans arrived, DNA study reveals A major genetic study has found that koalas…
Two asteroids receive unprecedented visits from space probes in a single week | Science
It’s strange how we get used to what was once extraordinary. At the start of July, two spacecraft…
What’s It Like to Travel Near the Speed of Light? Part 4: The Hot View
(This is Part 4 of a series on what it’s like to travel near the speed of light.…