Space station experiment shows microbes extract metals from meteorites
Microbes could be the future space miners, helping humans survive on long-term missions by extracting mineral resources from…
SpaceX Falcon 9 deploys 24 Starlink satellites after…
A white and black rocket lifts off from its launch pad into a partially cloudy blue sky. For…
Snakes on a train: How king cobras are spreading across India thanks to world’s busiest railway network
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Springer Nature launches Nature Progress open access journal series
Shutterstock.com/ssi77 Springer Nature has announced the launch of Nature Progress, a new Nature-branded journal series within the Nature…
Four lessons NZ should take from another summer of weather disasters
By Iain White, Bill Fry, Julia Becker, Liam Wotherspoon, Melanie Mark-Shadbolt of Police and officials at the site…
Scientists Report “High-Confidence Detections of Artificial Objects” on the Moon—Could They Solve a Cold War-era Mystery?
In 1966, the Soviet Union made history when its Luna 9 mission placed the first object built by…
Is the Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy Actually a Massive Knot of Dark Matter? Sounds Crazy, But the Numbers Line Up
Artistic representation of the Milky Way, where the innermost stars move at near relativistic speeds around a dense…
Citizen science rediscovers rare South African moth
Citizen scientists in South Africa have rediscovered an emerald-green moth that’s been missing for nearly one-and-a-half centuries.A…
Making A Functional Control Panel Of The Chernobyl RBMK Reactor
Top of an RBMK at the Leningrad plant. Control panels of a pre-digitalization nuclear plant look quite daunting,…
Country diary: How much bad weather can one village take? | Environment
During the storm, the waves sounded like bombs going off under the house, Bonni Breeze Lincoln tells me. She…
SpaceX Makes a Huge Pivot, Wants to Build on the Moon Instead
It’s finally happened: Elon Musk has announced that SpaceX, the company he founded in 2002 with the goal…
Quantum Microscope Unveils Quantum Material Behavior
Physicists in Leiden have built a microscope that can measure no fewer than four key properties of a…