New ‘Google-like’ search engine can scan millions of cells for hidden RNA clues in seconds
Malva can search RNA sequences across millions of individual cells in seconds without requiring researchers to download enormous…
Heatwaves show UK must do more to promote sustainable transport, campaigners say | Public transport
Dozens of civil society groups have demanded the UK government do more to promote cycling, walking and shared…
In 1965, two radio engineers at Bell Labs spent months scraping pigeon droppings out of a giant horn antenna trying to eliminate a faint background hiss they couldn’t explain, only to discover the noise was the leftover heat of the Big Bang itself, arriving from every direction at once
A twenty foot horn antenna built to bounce satellite signals across an ocean, and two grown men standing…
Wild blonde capuchin monkeys — an endangered species in Brazil’s dry Caatinga forest already known for using sticks to fish termites — were filmed cracking food open with stones, the first record of stone tool use in this species anywhere
A camera trap in Brazil’s Caatinga dry forest caught something researchers had never documented in this species before:…
NASA has demonstrated a satellite that can determine its own orbit without GPS by photographing other spacecraft and debris, matching them against a catalogue of 20,000 objects, and using them as moving landmarks—a first-of-its-kind system that could eventually help spacecraft navigate near the Moon and Mars.
NASA says a spacecraft in its Starling CubeSat swarm has determined its own orbit without GPS by observing…
The ex-oil executive trying to wean us off fossil fuels
Samantha Cooper once helped power the oil industry. Now she’s fighting to end its hold on our future…
NASA once sent chicken eggs to space with funding from KFC
The 1980s had no shortage of strange ideas, but this one might take the cake… or the chicken.…
The universe is still speeding up, but nobody knows why
An international team of astrophysicists says the universe is still expanding at an accelerating rate, rejecting recent claims…
200,000 Leaky Barrels of Radioactive Waste Are Lying at the Bottom of the Atlantic
Not a great thing to have in your living room. Photo: From the Nautile submersible We humans create…
Nasa space telescope set to launch after surviving Trump budget cuts | Nasa
A $4.3bn space telescope that Donald Trump tried to kill is set to lift off from Florida early…
Global Warming Is Breaking The Link Between Two Major Oceans : ScienceAlert
What happens in one ocean doesn’t necessarily stay there. For centuries, changes over the tropical Pacific have traveled…
Moderate earthquake shakes Japan, injuring more than 30 in the Tokyo region
TOKYO — A moderate earthquake rattled eastern Japan, including the Tokyo area, early Sunday, injuring more than 30…