SpaceX stacks massive Starship rocket ahead of 1st orbital launch attempt (video)
SpaceX has completed assembly of the Starship rocket slated to launch the test vehicle’s most ambitious mission to…
Gravitational torque drives multidecadal variations in length of day
Torque and changes in the LOD An axial torque Γz acting on the mantle causes a change in…
Discovery of receptor-free signaling reveals better targets for treating autoimmune diseases
Our understanding of how cells interact with each other has been driven for decades by the central concept…
East Antarctica recently gained almost 700 billion tonnes of ice – and scientists know why
Between 2021 and 2023, East Antarctica gained a whopping 695 billion tonnes of ice – and scientists from…
NASA Aircraft to Make Low-Altitude Research Flights Over Colorado
Agricultural emissions represent an important and understudied part of Earth’s land and atmosphere systems. The FarmFlux mission will deploy more than a dozen…
Evaluation of seismological evidence for decadal changes in Earth’s lowermost mantle and outer core
Trap 1: imperfect source repeatability AI-0009 in ZW25 does not exhibit the level of repeatability generally expected for…
Researchers reveal snapshots of a key molecular machine in tropical parasites
image: Illustration of the three-dimensional structure of the trans-spliceosome, the molecular machine responsible for a key stage in…
UK to join EU ocean science scheme to better predict extreme weather events | Climate crisis
Britain is to join a major new ocean science programme, led by the EU, to better forecast extreme…
Asteroid-mining company AstroForge to launch world’s 1st totally autonomous spacecraft in 2027
AstroForge plans to make spaceflight history next year. The California-based asteroid-mining company has booked its Autonomy-1 mission on…
A student built a particle detector for just $100; the pocket-sized device can track invisible particles raining down from space at light’s speed; it is now being used in high-altitude balloon missions and major physics experiments
A device that can detect particles arriving from space does not necessarily require a multimillion-dollar laboratory. A compact…
Scientists Detect Radio Signals From An Exoplanet For The First Time Ever
For the first time, scientists have detected radio signals coming directly from a planet outside our solar system.…
Germany pledges to phase out fossil fuels for first time with target of 2045 | Greenhouse gas emissions
Europe’s biggest economy, Germany, has committed to phasing out fossil fuels by 2045, despite fierce debate about its…