Crawfish soup on Mars? US fears over China’s scientific ambitions raised in Senate hearing
A Chinese researcher’s vision of serving spicy crawfish soup to astronauts on Mars became an unlikely symbol of…
Astronomers found a planet 63 light-years away that appears as blue as Earth from space—but its colour comes from a scorching atmosphere where glass may rain sideways in 4,500-mile-per-hour winds
At first glance, HD 189733b sounds almost comforting. It is blue. Not merely imagined as blue in an…
US-India Satellite Delivers Data, Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica
As of July 20, the public can access data from the two powerful radar instruments aboard the NISAR…
Quantum Computer Stores Data in Vibrations Like Notes on a Guitar
The new quantum chip developed by ETH Zurich physicist Yiwen Chu contains so-called mechanical resonators, tiny components that…
Klaus Grohe Prize 2026 awarded for the first time to two researchers
The 2026 Klaus Grohe Prize will be awarded to Professor Dr. Edward Tate, Imperial College London, United Kingdom,…
Astronomers Are Still Trying to Understand How a Galaxy’s Spiral Arms Form
The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) is a classic grand spiral galaxy. It was the first object identified as a…
Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals
The queen’s odor bouquet, however, contained many other scents. To be sure they’ve got the right one and…
Northrop adds to charges on Vulcan solid rocket motor program
WASHINGTON — Northrop Grumman is taking another charge related to the solid rocket boosters it provides for the…
On Saturn’s moon Titan, molecules that chemistry says should never mix are mixing — NASA and Chalmers University researchers found that at minus 183 degrees Celsius, substances as incompatible as water and oil can dissolve into each other
Titan is already the Solar System’s great chemical exception. It has rivers, lakes, seas, clouds, rain and seasons,…
NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft Captured a Time-Lapse Video of its Mars Flyby
NASA’s Psyche mission is on its way to check out the asteroid 16 Psyche, a massive and metal-rich…
Why cooperation survives when selfishness should win
Even in the Prisoner’s Dilemma, the classic thought experiment built to prove selfishness always wins, cooperation keeps showing…
Northern Lights Alert: Aurora May Be Visible From 10 States On Tuesday
Geomagnetic activity is expected to increase late on Tuesday, July 21 and continue into Wednesday, July 22. A…