NASA says it will isolate volunteers from the outside world for a year
science There might also be a downside For those growing sick of Earth’s geopolitics, NASA is looking for…
Videos: A Lunar Mars Rover, Floating Robots, and More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics.…
Hunting the tardigrade: one small step in sequencing DNA of all life on Earth | Biology
Witek Morek is closely inspecting an old brick-and-flint wall on the Cambridgeshire campus of the Wellcome Sanger Institute.…
The Sky Today on Friday, July 3: Glimpse the Milky Way’s center
Back to Article List The center of the Milky Way stands above the southern horizon late at night…
Coral bleaching study finds proteins that could help protect reefs
The algae that power the world’s coral reefs survive inside coral cells by hijacking the very compartment built…
’Time bomb’ warning issued over pet owners’ AI use
Fears have been raised that the use of AI platforms could replace visits to the vet. Share Image:…
Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope solves the mystery of a planet that survived its Sun’s death |
A white dwarf is usually thought of as the quiet remnant left behind after a star has exhausted…
It’s tempting to assume faster engines make faster spacecraft, but Parker Solar Probe’s record 430,000 miles per hour came mostly from gravity: seven Venus flybys spent nearly seven years bending its orbit closer to the Sun, until the Sun’s own pull accelerated it faster than any human-made object in history.
It is easy to imagine the fastest spacecraft as the one with the most ferocious engine. Parker Solar…
Huge blow to EV and solar panel users as energy suppliers increase night rate by 82pc
It is the biggest hike in electricity charges ever seen in the market and comes as a huge…
Google Ventures makes surprise $30 million SpaceX-era bet
The next major space company might not be building rockets It may not be launching satellites into space,…
Here’s How This ‘Hobbit’-Like Human Ancestor Survived on an Island with Komodo Dragons
Anthropologists have been debating the life and times of Indonesia’s prehistoric “hobbit-like” human ancestor, Homo floresiensis, ever since…
Mars Meets Uranus Before Dawn On July 4 In Closest Pairing Until 2053
Topline A rare dawn conjunction on Saturday, July 4, brings fourth planet Mars and seventh planet Uranus unusually…