24×7 eye on China, Pakistan borders: Why EOS-05 launch on 'Naughty Boy' is key to India's security – The Times of India
24×7 eye on China, Pakistan borders: Why EOS-05 launch on ‘Naughty Boy’ is key to India’s security The Times…
Scientists observe the effect of gravity on a quantum object for the first time
Scientists at the University of Ulm, the University of Oxford, and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev collaborated…
When Georgia Tech scientists tipped out a tumbler of Titan-like organic grains, 2 to 5 percent refused to fall, held to the walls by static electricity. In comparable experiments with terrestrial sand and volcanic ash, nothing stuck.
When Georgia Tech researchers finished tumbling grains meant to approximate some of Titan’s organic material, they tipped the…
The plastic waste overtaking New York – and the people trying to curb it | Plastics
In New York City, the plastic we discard has a way of remaining in plain sight. There are…
Scientists may have found first hint of dark matter – BBC
Scientists may have found first hint of dark matter BBCA suspicious signal in a dark-matter detector has physicists excited The…
Nearly 300 metres beneath Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert, miners tunnelling for ore broke into a chamber filled with crystals as long as a bus — giant beams of gypsum up to 11 metres long, hidden underwater for hundreds of thousands of years until mine pumps exposed them
In April 2000, somewhere under the Chihuahuan Desert, a drill bit punched through solid rock and hit nothing…
Judge rules 2,000 Catalina Island deer can be killed to save native plant species | California
Locals and tourists have long fawned over Catalina Island’s mule deer population. For nearly a century, the ungulates…
Historic Grand Canyon lodge the second impacted by natural disaster in over a year
The Grand Canyon’s vast, mile-deep landscape may appear timeless, but two devastating disasters have recently struck the iconic…
A “New” Penguin Species Has Been Discovered on One of Earth’s Most Remote Islands
Gentoo penguins. Credit: Claudia Ulloa Genetic research revealed four distinct gentoo penguin species, including a newly identified species…
Dozens of trapped hydropower tunnel workers in Nepal could still be alive, official says | Nepal-Tibet flood disaster
Nepal authorities have said they are “confident” that dozens of workers in Nepal’s Rasuwagadhi hydropower plant are still…
The universe has plenty of hydrogen. So why is star formation collapsing?
The universe is producing fewer stellar “babies.” Over the past 4.5 billion years, the rate at which new…
I camped in one of Britain’s last remaining rainforests | Devon holidays
Mist blankets the valley as I wheel my camping gear down the small hill towards a clearing ringed…