Family Bonds Enhance Longevity in Female Baboons, Study Reveals |
Female baboons who maintain strong family bonds with mothers, sisters, and daughters enjoy significantly longer lifespans, new research…
In January 2025, the loudest gravitational wave ever recorded hid a second signal nobody knew how to read — and a decade after the first detection, it has just given physicists the spin rate of a black hole’s event horizon
The signal arrived at LIGO on January 14, 2025. Two laser beams running down 4-kilometer vacuum tubes in…
Extreme Weather Will Upend U.S.-China Competition
Climate change looms in the background of the contest between China and the United States. It is the…
NASA astronauts head outside the space station to replace a Canadarm2 wrist joint that malfunctioned after 25 years in orbit
Two NASA astronauts are set to spend much of Tuesday outside the International Space Station, repairing the orbiting…
Scientists unlock faster way to find thousands of new superconductors
Researchers have discovered two new superconductors using a machine learning-based screening method, demonstrating a faster way to identify…
Feliks the eagle is back home in Serbia after a kidnap ordeal in the Middle East
BELGRADE, Serbia — Feliks’ journey resembles a Hollywood movie script, with kidnappers, smugglers and clandestine border crossings. The…
The bootlace worm found washed up on Scottish beaches after storms can stretch more than 55 metres when relaxed, making it longer than the largest blue whale, and it secretes a mucus laced with a neurotoxin that paralyses crabs and kills cockroaches in lab tests
The longest animal ever measured on Earth is not the blue whale. It is a thin, slimy, rust-coloured…
Accelerate Lunar Surface Technologies
Long-term lunar exploration requires technology, infrastructure, and operations that function together cohesively on the surface of the Moon.…
Think you’ve got thick skin? It’s nothing compared to this super-tough animal
An armadillo? An elephant? A rhinoceros? You’d be forgiven for thinking one of these animals has the thickest…
Researchers discover new beetle species hiding just steps from their lab
Scientists often travel to remote forests, mountains, and islands in search of undiscovered species. But in a surprising…
ESA to seek lunar mapping capability for Argonaut lander
MILAN — The European Space Agency will rely on external lunar topographic data during the design phase of…
A massive asteroid slammed into the North Sea and triggered a 330-foot tsunami
A long-running debate about a mysterious crater hidden beneath the North Sea has finally been settled. Researchers have…