Punch the viral rejected baby monkey was finally shown love with an embracing hug from an adult macaque
For weeks, the digital world watched with bated breath as the infant macaque Punch-kun struggled to find his…
Snowman worlds: How strange shapes appeared in the Kuiper Belt
For years, scientists have debated how the Kuiper Belt’s “snowman” worlds formed. Did two separate bodies collide at…
TASA announces space rocket research center plans
Taiwan is to open a space rocket research center by 2030 with the goal of achieving the capability…
Multicolor electron microscopy reveals proteins and cell architecture at nanoscale resolution
Scientists have developed a new imaging technique that uses a novel contrast mechanism in bioimaging to merge the…
Killer whales don’t always drive white sharks away
When killer whales attacked a great white shark near South Australia’s Neptune Islands in 2015, the story spread…
Giant whale shark spotted in the Gulf of Eilat
A whale shark measuring about 5 meters (16 ft) was spotted Sunday morning in the Gulf of Eilat.…
Affordable microscope captures living cells during chaotic conditions of zero-gravity flight
As space agencies prepare for human missions to the Moon and Mars, scientists need to understand how the…
Viral Baby Monkey Punch Finally Accepted By His Troop With Heartwarming Hug
Punch-kun, the seven-month-old macaque monkey living in Ichikawa City Zoo, may have finally been accepted by his troop.…
Why do some places on Earth get far more solar eclipses than others?
On Aug. 2, 1153, Jerusalem — one of the oldest cities in the world — experienced a total…
The Chilling Final Words of Vladimir Komarov, the “Man Who Fell from Space” on a Doomed Mission
The 1967 death of Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was not an unforeseeable accident. It was a disaster that…
Webb Just Spent 17 Hours Staring at Uranus—and Found Its Auroras Are Even Weirder Than We Thought
On January 19, the Webb space telescope stared deep into the chaotic world of Uranus for 17 hours,…
A risky maneuver could send a spacecraft to interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Here’s the plan
Scientists think it’s possible for a spacecraft to gain enough velocity to catch up with iconic interstellar comet…