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Mathematics of thermodynamics is being rewritten a...
The laws of physics that concern heat and work could gain a firmer mathematical footing thanks to “g...
When Sergei Korolev, the chief designer behind Spu...
Sergei Korolev launched Sputnik, sent Laika into orbit, and put Yuri Gagarin around the Earth — all ...
A single cumulus cloud can carry roughly 500 tons ...
A typical fair-weather cumulus holds roughly 500 metric tons of water — about 100 elephants' worth —...
Greenland sharks can live more than 400 years, whi...
Greenland sharks are the longest-lived vertebrates on Earth, with some individuals in the North Atla...
The US wants to build offshore rocket launch sites...
The U.S. government is looking into launching commercial rockets from sea-based launch sites, but so...
Four startup reactors hit criticality by July 4 to...
Four experimental nuclear reactors have started self-sustaining chain reactions on U.S. soil in a si...
Injection halves risk of chromosome error common i...
Egg cells missing a key protein may be more likely to end up with the wrong number of chromosomes, b...
China announces plan to build early-warning system...
The country's plans include spacecraft designed to detect asteroids coming from the direction of the...
A worm that lived half a billion years ago preferr...
Fossils of Spriggina floundersi provide the earliest evidence of animals favouring one side of the b...
Staffing the moon base: How many astronauts should...
A simulation of future astronaut moon bases suggests that mission design, and not just psychology, n...
Watch a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch for record-b...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch for a record-breaking 36th time early Thursday morning (July 9)...
Japanese company books 1,100 pounds of cargo space...
The Japanese company ispace is expanding its already extensive moon plans to include SpaceX's Starsh...
Dance of death between binary stars leads to an un...
When some stars die, they do not do so alone, potentially solving a long-standing mystery around a p...
NASA begins funding hardware for 'Skyfall' Mars he...
NASA's nuclear-powered mission to Mars is taking shape with the selection of Firefly Aerospace to de...
Trump gifts Artemis astronauts a flag from the US ...
The next American flag to be planted on the moon has been placed in the hands of one of the last ast...
Seeding clouds with seawater could prevent a super...
A modelling study suggests marine cloud brightening could shade the eastern Pacific and reduce a glo...
Shoebox-sized 'detector satellites' could sniff ou...
A constellation of cubesats fitted with special detectors could sniff out nuclear weapons hidden on ...
Our fertility window could be extended by making o...
A drug that softens the ovaries helped mice and rats conceive more easily at an older age, and produ...
Venus takes center stage with 2 easy-to-see sky sh...
Venus pairs up with Regulus on July 9 before meeting a slender crescent moon on July 17.
Occam’s razor has lost its edge. Can we sharpen ou...
Seeking out the simplest, most elegant explanations has served scientists well for centuries, but co...
'This is the future of spatial intelligence': Vant...
The American Earth-observation company Vantor is now mapping Earth from space in 3D, and the images ...
NASA's Roman Space Telescope prepares for launch |...
Roman is in Florida, getting ready for its August liftoff.
Why Schrödinger's 1944 classic What Is Life? still...
Pioneer of quantum mechanics Erwin Schrödinger's look at living organisms is one of the most influen...
The US Space Force just got a new electromagnetic ...
The U.S. Space Force has acquired one of its first publicly acknowledged offensive weapons, one that...
Revolutionary rocket engine company Venus Aerospac...
Venus Aerospace has raised $91 million to further develop the company's rotating detonation rocket e...
NASA's New Horizons probe just woke up from hibern...
NASA's New Horizons probe has woken up in good health nearly 6 billion miles away beyond Pluto after...
Lambs born via IVF using highly immature eggs in m...
Lambs have been born using an experimental form of IVF that coaxes immature eggs to become mature on...
The allergy culprit histamine also boosts our memo...
A drug that raises levels of histamine – the chemical that causes allergy symptoms – in the brain bo...
Earth may survive the sun's death after all, new s...
When the sun swells into a red giant about 5 billion years from now, Earth may escape being swallowe...
How extreme heat affects the body – and the best w...
A short spell in a heat chamber at the University of Brighton showed Alec Luhn that his body is not ...
James Webb Space Telescope celebrates its 4th birt...
To celebrate the fourth birthday of the James Webb Space Telescope, NASA has released a stunning ima...
Our Milky Way galaxy might be larger than we thoug...
Astronomers used cosmic explosions to find that we may be wrong about our own galaxy.
'Project Hail Mary' is finally streaming Amazon Pr...
'Project Hail Mary' blasted off onto Prime Video starting on July 3.
Peter Shor’s algorithm could break the internet – ...
Few people have invented an algorithm with the potential to spark a worldwide crisis, so why is quan...
Does time come from the entire universe running co...
Explaining the passage of time has been a gnarly problem in physics basically forever, but physicist...
Artemis 2's Jeremy Hansen stepping down from activ...
The Canadian Space Agency's Jeremy Hansen will step back from active astronaut service in September ...
How public–private partnerships can turn Mars into...
No single agency — not even NASA — can develop all the technologies and systems needed for sustained...
The strange metals forcing us to rethink how elect...
Some 40 years ago, physicists noticed certain metals were conducting electricity in a bizarre way no...
China releases 1st photo of Earth's elusive 'quasi...
China's Tianwen-2 probe beamed home a photo of its target, asteroid 2016HO3, also known as quasi-moo...
'That's going to come back and bite us': Former NA...
Former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine questions the designs for NASA's commercial moon landers f...
Astronaut flexes his muscles mid-spacewalk | Space...
NASA astronaut Chris Williams recently flexed his muscles for a photo while on a spacewalk with fell...
Chinese scientists find the best way to nuke an as...
While no imminent asteroid threats have been found for Earth, Chinese scientists discussed two ways ...
Salt batteries are about to shake up EVs and grid ...
Today, most rechargeable batteries are made from lithium ions, but sodium-ion alternatives could mak...
Chris Packham: 'I'd throw myself in front of a T. ...
As Chris Packham gears up for his new TV show, Evolution, he tells Penny Sarchet why understanding t...
SpaceX just launched the 1st-ever nuclear-powered ...
A satellite aboard SpaceX's Transporter-17 rideshare mission is the first commercially designed and ...
The sun's atmosphere is way hotter than its surfac...
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has found charged grains of dust being carried on magnetic plasma waves in...
5 graphs that show how heatwaves are getting more ...
Longer-lasting hot spells and high temperatures at night are making it harder to cope, leading to th...
Ovaries may turn into an 'immune-like organ' after...
The ovaries of aged mice become infiltrated with immune cells linked to widespread inflammation in t...
Ovary identity shift after menopause may contribut...
We used to think post-menopausal ovaries sat inert in the body, but evidence from mice suggests they...
