Two astronauts replace ISS camera and docking aid on 6th-ever all-female spacewalk (video)
Two astronauts replaced a spacecraft docking aid and a video camera during a successful spacewalk outside of the…
Why do black hole flares die out? It may be down to how stars spin
Some stars encounter supermassive black holes and live to tell the tale. New research shows why the flares…
Frogs Make Poor Mating Choices When Overwhelmed
Romantic overload isn’t just a human problem; for one tree frog species, too many suitors can mean…
Meet ASTRID, the New High-Resolution Cosmological Simulation
The JWST examined ancient light from the Universe’s first galaxies and black holes and uncovered some puzzles. Galaxies…
Can Rocket Lab’s Spacecraft Component Business Support Growth?
Rocket Lab Corporation RKLB is expanding its space system business by developing and manufacturing a broader range of…
In 1905, a Bohemian prince released five muskrats into his estate ponds as a fur venture. Within a decade, around 2 million were in Bohemia | World News
A small group of muskrats arrived in Bohemia in 1905, carried across the Atlantic as curiosities from a…
DARPA funds project to build wireless yeast DNA printer
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has tasked scientists with developing a system that can receive instructions…
The greenest building is the one still standing after a disaster
When Hurricane Michael tore through the Florida Panhandle in 2018, a beach house called the Sand Palace was…
On this day in space! Sept. 1, 1979: NASA’s Pioneer 11 probe becomes 1st spacecraft to visit Saturn
On Sept. 1, 1979, NASA’s robotic space probe Pioneer 11 became the first spacecraft to fly by Saturn.…
Strange behavior in focused laser light could change how quantum computers control qubits
Physicists have directly observed the optical Magnus effect for the first time by mapping how a tightly focused…
1950: Kevin Budden, a 20-year-old photographer, was dying from a taipan snake bite when he insisted the snake be saved; five years later, its venom helped save a boy’s life
In 1950, 20-year-old Kevin Budden died after a coastal taipan bite. But before his death, he insisted the…
AI Scanned 2 Million Earthquake Records and Found Six Hidden Zones Near Earth’s Core
Nearly 35 years of seismic data. Over two million waveforms from roughly 5,000 magnitude-6-plus earthquakes. Manual analysis had…