A force as light as paper: Inside UAE engineering behind 5-billion-km space journey
For about three minutes, Mariam Alhammadi waited in front of a small glass window. Inside the vacuum chamber,…
Elephant calves first in Australia to be vaccinated against deadly virus
Sitting in her office, surrounded by elephant pictures, zookeeper Lucy Truelson’s voice cracks when she talks about Man…
Drowned 5,000-year-old forests off Mozambique now shelter reef fish, no coral needed
Forests that stood on Mozambique’s coast thousands of years ago now lie beneath shallow seas, and they have…
‘We can’t leave people behind’: frustration and hope mingle in the wake of Lismore’s post-flood renewal | New South Wales
Alison Norris looks admiringly around the simple two-bedroom home that has housed her and her three children for…
A farmer found an 11-foot metal object in a Minnesota cornfield. Its origin remains a mystery
An 11-foot metallic object found in a western Minnesota cornfield is being investigated by state and federal agencies.…
Scientists cut open a dead seal and sieved the contents of its intestines. What they found was shocking
Two and a half months before writing this, a young adult grey seal washed up on a beach…
Trash for cash: Israel enters the plastic credit market, but will it reduce pollution
We usually think of waste as nothing more than garbage, but it can also become an economic asset,…
SpaceX Dragon Delivers Groundbreaking Science and Solar Arrays to ISS
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft approaches the International Space Station moments before docking to the Harmony module’s space-facing port…
Coral Bleaching Reversed at Record Speed Using New Stanford Method: ‘Not a Lost Cause, at All’
Coral bleaching restoration at Stanford – by Dan Griffin / GG Films (via SWNS, cropped) Coral bleaching has…
SpaceX Is Changing: Here’s What You Need to Know
In the months since Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX) went public — and even before — barrels of…
NASA’s Roman Space Telescope exceeds expectations by nearly 30%
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is performing even better than scientists anticipated after engineers completed an extensive…
Recycled plastic asphalt may boost pavement performance, limit particle release
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Asphalt containing recycled plastic held together better than conventional asphalt and showed a lower…