One of the biggest galaxies in the universe seems to lack its dark centerpiece.
Source: New York TimesOne of the fluffiest exoplanets we've ever found in the Milky Way galaxy is challenging our understanding of how giant planets form.
Source: ScienceAlertSomewhere out there among the stars is an asteroid hurtling towards Earth with speeds upwards of 29,000 miles an hour. In fact, NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies lists a handful of asteroids expected to pass by the planet in the coming days, includi…
Source: ComicBook.comThe 15th-century artwork, widely attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci, had been stolen from the Basilica di San Domenico Maggiore in Naples two years ago.
Source: Daily MailTHE end of the world will come at the hands of our dying Sun, which astronomers have announced will one day expand into a so-called red giant and boil the Earth alive, rendering the planet a 'lifeless rock'.
Source: ExpressDiscovery raises fresh questions about how the eels communicate.
Source: Ars TechnicaLocal palaeontologists found the remains - which include 24 vertebrae from the creatures tail and some adjacent bones - in the Neuquén Province in 2012.
Source: Daily MailIn a milestone breakthrough, astronomers have discovered the oldest supermassive black hole ever seen. The extraordinary find dates back to the early days of the universe and fuels the most distant quasar yet known.
Source: RTScientists may have just detected the effects of the gravitational wave background, a universal force caused by supermassive black holes.
Source: Good News NetworkAxions may be responsible for an excess of X-ray emissions coming from a group of neutron stars in our galaxy.
Source: Gizmodo.comAs the U.K. wonders whether it's again time to stop playing, SI polled infectious disease experts for a little coaching on what comes next.
Source: Sports IllustratedWe should be thinking about airborne transmission of coronavirus.
Source: The Conversation AfricaWhat researchers have learned about the U.K. variant.
Source: New York Times“I want to know,” one twin said, “why did she have Covid worse than me?”
Source: New York TimesAstronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacularly detailed image of the central region of NGC 4535.
Source: Sci-News.comEven though we know the deep sea is weird, 'carnivorous sea sponges' still sound like something from a sci-fi movie. And yet, researchers just announced the discovery of three new such species off the coast of Australia.
Source: ScienceAlertEvidence of a long-sought hypothetical particle could have been hiding in plain (X-ray) sight all this time.
Source: ScienceAlertAs you'd probably expect from the space agency, NASA has always been at the forefront of visual technology. Back in 2017, NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer live-streamed a broadcast from the International Space Station using 4K ultra-high-definit…
Source: MashableNASA released the best times to see the ISS from where ever you are in the city.
Source: KHOU.comIn which lasers do things that make absolutely no sense but give us great clocks.
Source: Ars TechnicaWe'll also get a touch of snow two days this week. Get the details on when and how much.
Source: WFMZ AllentownScientists in Tanzania show humans used tools 2 million years ago
Source: Quartz IndiaThe concentration of stone tools and animal fossils was evidence both humans and fauna gathered around water sources in Olduvai Gorge
Source: Quartz IndiaMost people associate the word "coral" with sunshine, blue skies and Australia's Great Barrier Reef. In fact, more than half of the 5,100 species on the planet exist as "cold-water corals" in deep and dark parts of the world's oceans.
Source: ScienceAlertBy MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA declared the Mars digger dead Thursday after failing to burrow deep into the red
Source: Oil City NewsCuriosity, the rover that’s been exploring the planet Mars since it touched down on the Red Planet on August 6, 2012, just celebrated its 3,000th day on Mars on January 12, 2021.
Source: JalopnikDNA evidence shows that the now famous -- and extinct -- dire wolf species couldn't mate with gray wolves.
Source: CNETBefore the first major Artemis mission takes off, NASA needs to prove its huge rocket system is up to the task with a spectacular "Green Run" hot fire test.
Source: CNETGlancing at the image below, it’s clear that there are huge numbers of stars in the Milky Way. Astronomers say that the galaxy is filled with streams of stars, but one of those streams appear…
Source: SlashGearDINOSAUR fossils unearthed in South America may belong to the largest land animal that scientists have ever found - so far.
Source: ExpressA new study by the scientists of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found how cancer cells use an unusual process of multiplying.
Source: News18Scientists have located a ‘Super Earth’ that is being believed to orbit one of the oldest stars in the Milky Way galaxy. The exoplanet gets its title as it is suspected to be around three times the mass of Earth, with a size 50% larger than our home planet.Th…
Source: The Times of India"It’s easy to distinguish the galaxy as such because of its well-defined central bar and long arms, which spiral loosely around the nucleus," NASA explained.
Source: Republic WorldDipYourCar, a car-focused website and YouTube channel, has coated a car with paint that makes it look like the night sky. The paint has a similar light absorbing effect as Vantablack, a material made from carbon nanotubes, but modified with pearlescent spots …
Source: The VergeThe galaxy is losing an estimated 10,000 stars per year.
Source: Deseret NewsLoeb describes his journey to a radical position on the strange interstellar visitor that’s been dubbed ‘Oumuamua.
Source: Discovery InstituteAn international team of paleontologists from Austria and Switzerland has uncovered an exceptionally well-preserved skeleton of Asteracanthus ornatissimus, a species of hybodontiform shark that lived about 150 million years ago (Jurassic period), in the famou…
Source: Sci-News.comIn 2021, the US Postal Service is showcasing the Sun’s many faces with a series of Sun Science forever stamps that show images of solar activity captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO.
Source: NASAA group of scientists from Columbia University recently published a paper detailing how humanity could power an off-Earth colony by tapping into one of the universe’s largest and most powerful resources: black holes. The big idea here is that a spinning black…
Source: The Next WebRocket Lab is set to start its busiest year with the dedicated launch of a…
Source: NASASpaceflight.comConditions a tKennedy Space Center should be favorable for SpaceX's next launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with Starlink internet satellites on Monday.
Source: Florida TodayMany consider the various rovers we’ve sent to Mars as the next best thing to sending a geologist to the Red Planet. Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity have carried all the necessary equipment similar to what human geologists use on Earth, and are able to navi…
Source: Universe TodayYou can get Starlink internet in a few places, but Russia doesn't want any of its citizens going through the SpaceX system as it expands. In fact, the country has floated the idea of fining people for using Starlink or other foreign satellite internet service…
Source: ExtremeTechA absolute unit from ancient times.
Source: CNETScience can actually tell us a lot about the ways our prehistoric ancestors had sex, including what Neanderthal penises looked like.
Source: InsideHookTo reconstruct the evolutionary history of dire wolves, an international team of genetic researchers sequenced five genomes from the fossilized remains dating from 12,900 to more than 50,000 years ago.
Source: Sci-News.comARCHAEOLOGISTS have identified the contents of drug containers used by the Maya civilisation 1,000 years ago, offering a unique insight into how the ancient civilisation lived.
Source: ExpressThe space rock, estimated to measure up to 1,345 feet in diameter, is set to pass Earth on January 17.
Source: NewsweekBefore the first major Artemis mission takes off, NASA needs to prove its huge rocket system is up to the task. That calls for a "Green Run" hot fire test.
Source: CNETBefore the first major Artemis mission takes off, NASA needs to prove its huge rocket system is up to the task. That calls for a "Green Run" hot fire test.
Source: CNETSpaceX’s attempt to reduce the reflectivity of Starlink satellites is working, but not to the degree required by astronomers.
Source: Gizmodo.comElectric eels appear to not be the loners we thought they were.
Source: ScienceAlertScientists have identified the presence of a non-tobacco plant in ancient Maya drug containers for the first time. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
Source: HeritageDailyA small prototype of a drone-based quantum network has successfully relayed a quantum signal over a kilometer of free space.
Source: Aps.orgResearchers have used drones to transmit photons that are entangled even when they’re far apart. That means their quantum states are linked: Measuring the state of one affects the state of th…
Source: Boing BoingUsing data from RNA-folding experiments, the researchers generated the first-ever data-driven movies of how RNA folds as it is made by cellular machinery. By watching their videos of this folding occur, the researchers discovered that RNA often folds in surpr…
Source: EurekAlertResearchers have revealed details of these interspecies sex sessions.
Source: New York Post"Game of Thrones" may have excited viewers with tales of dragons and fictional heroes and heroines, but one aspect of the show was real, according to a new study: dire wolves.
Source: Fox NewsVolta's electric eels join the relatively small number of fish that hunt in packs
Source: Newser“Green” open-access route complies with the Coalition S funders’ mandate
Source: Science MagazineAstronomers have found the most distant quasar yet seen, and, like a handful of others found at this distance, it presents a huge (literally) problem: The black hole powering it is far too big for how long it's been around.
Source: SYFY WIRENASA has discovered an exoplanet with three stars, one with a bizarre orbit that has left astronomers baffled.
Source: Fox NewsUniverse is a deep mystery, and astronomers and other experts are continuously trying to unravel one or the other secret through their research.
Source: News18"AR1 is the ideal engine for many possible solutions."
Source: Ars TechnicaTo us humans, a single Sun feels completely normal, but our Solar System is actually a weird outlier. Most stars in the Milky Way galaxy have at least one companion star. Now, in a system 1,800 light-years away, astronomers have finally confirmed a g
Source: ScienceAlertMIT biologists have found a possible explanation for the Warburg effect, first seen in cancer cells in the 1920s. They found cancer cells use fermentation, an inefficient metabolic pathway, because it helps them to generate large quantities of a molecule call…
Source: Mit.eduCHINA has announced progress of its super heavy space rocket development which could cause concerns for NASA.
Source: ExpressPhysicists have observed a new state of matter at work inside an elusive thread of quantum gas.
Source: ScienceAlertResearchers counted particles in seaballs that washed up on beaches in Spain
Source: The GuardianThe planet is twice the size of ours — and likely three times as old.
Source: Travel+LeisureFor decades, scientists have wrestled with a complex mystery of physics: Could the immense amounts of energy theoretically produced by rotating black holes ever be tapped by human hands?
Source: ScienceAlert"It was as if somebody had just created a telescope that was a time machine."
Source: Space.comThe SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft landed off the coast of Florida Wednesday night carrying research materials, equipment and 12 bottles of French wine. These wines had spent a year orbiting the Earth in the name of science.
Source: VOA NewsNew research suggests that the real-life inspiration for Ghost from 'Game of Thrones' wasn’t a wolf species.
Source: Mental FlossAs part of its celebration of a new year, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has published six different galaxy mergers. These rare astronomical
Source: PetaPixelAstronomers have found evidence of faint gravitational waves using an array of pulsars in our galaxy.
Source: Universe TodayJust 670 million years after the Big Bang, a quasar with a monstrous black hole dominated a growing galaxy.
Source: CNETAs the story goes, the Greek mathematician and tinkerer Archimedes came across an invention while traveling through ancient Egypt that would later bear his name. It was a machine consisting of a screw housed inside a hollow tube that trapped and drew water up…
Source: Phys.OrgEngineering failures and a harsh climate conspired in the sudden collapse of the Arecibo telescope. Now, researchers are planning a rebirth. In the early morning of 10 August 2020, Sravani Vaddi, a postdoc astronomer at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Ri…
Source: Science MagazineTechnique for trapped ions could lead to more reliable quantum computers
Source: physicsworld.comNot all appears as it would seem in the Whirlpool galaxy. SOFIA’s infrared view shows that the magnetic fields in the outer arms do not follow the galaxy's spiral shape and are instead distorted.
Source: NASAElectric eels have been found to hunt in packs in the first documented case of its kind, which researchers have called an "extraordinary discovery."
Source: CNNNew measurements taken by researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore put numbers in the hundreds of billions, rather than the previously reported two trillion.
Source: Daily MailNew research shows that magnetic fields are contributing to the expulsion of material from the Cigar galaxy, or Messier 82, a well-known example of a starburst galaxy with a distinctive, elongated shape.
Source: NASAThe most distant quasar and the earliest known supermassive black hole have been discovered, shedding light on how massive galaxies formed in the early universe.
Source: CNNThe upper stage of the Skyrora XL rocket successfully completed a crucial static fire test at the engine development complex in Fife Scotland just before Christmas.
Source: Daily MailDire wolves weren't the distant cousins of modern wolves as we've been led to believe all these years.
Source: ZME ScienceThere are FM radio signals coming from one of Jupiter’s moon.
Source: News18The first in SpaceX’s new generation of Dragon cargo spacecraft completed its mission with a splashdown off the Florida coast Jan. 13.
Source: SpaceNewsSpaceX's satellite broadband service Starlink is now being tested in the U.K. after it was given a license by U.K. telecoms regulator Ofcom.
Source: CNBCSpaceX’s first Starlink launch of the year is now up next after a major rideshare mission’s delays forced a schedule shuffle. Known as Starlink-16 or Starlink V1 L16, the mission will be SpaceX’s 16th launch of operational v1.0 communications satellites and i…
Source: TeslaratiBefore DESI, the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, can begin its 5-year mission from an Arizona mountaintop to produce the largest 3-D sky map yet, researchers first needed an even bigger 2-D map of the universe.
Source: Phys.OrgIt turns out that planets can live a very long time indeed.
Source: ScienceAlertThe idea of artificial intelligence overthrowing humankind has been talked about for many decades, and scientists have just delivered their verdict on whether we'd be able to control a high-level computer super-intelligence. The answer? Almost defini
Source: ScienceAlertSpaceX secured contracts Jan. 13 for the launches of a commercial lunar lander mission and a privately funded satellite to track methane emissions.
Source: SpaceNewsThis rocky planet formed about 10 billion years ago, making it twice as old as Earth. It's too hot for life, but there could be others like it.
Source: Business InsiderWe're not there yet, but scientists are making a shocking amount of progress.
Source: FuturismA giant flare was detected by NASA as it swept through the Solar System and now scientists have announced its origins. It came from a magnetar located in a galaxy 11.4 million light-years away.
Source: Daily MailSN9 will fly soon, if all goes according to plan.
Source: Space.comThe ancient, extinct dire wolf may have been among the lonest of the wolves - so genetically distinct from its closest wolf relative that it could no longer interbreed, forcing it into an evolutionary dead end when it died out 13,000 years ago.
Source: ScienceAlert1% to 2% of insects disappear annually, but new habitats could help
Source: NewserThere are things in life that can be predicted reasonably well. The tides rise and fall. The moon waxes and wanes. A billiard ball bounces around a table according to orderly geometry.
Source: Phys.OrgAudio gathered by the mission may not sound quite the same on Mars as it would to our ears on Earth. A new interactive online experience lets you sample the difference.
Source: NASAThree days after Twitch’s PogChamp experiment began, Omega “CriticalBard” Jones, a partnered Black streamer, took his turn as the face of the global emote. The racist harassment came almost immediately.
Source: The VergeAstronomers discovered the most distant quasar ever, with an ancient black hole at its center.
Source: InverseA previous measurement by Hubble Space Telescope suggested there were 2 trillion galaxies spread across the universe. Now, the latest research points to only hundreds of billions of galaxies instead.
Source: CNNWhat's the right gift for a 3,000-Martian-day anniversary? Rocks?
Source: CNETEveryone’s always talking about traveling through time, but if you ask me the ultimate temporal vacation would be just to pause the clock for a bit. Who among us couldn’t use a five or six month break after 2020 before we commit to an entire new calendar year…
Source: The Next WebOn 14 November 2014, a bright flash flagged the All Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae,…
Source: NASASpaceflight.comEarth's ability to absorb nearly a third of human-caused carbon emissions through plants could be halved within the next two decades at the current rate of warming, according to a new study in Science Advances by researchers at Northern Arizona University, th…
Source: Phys.OrgAlbert Einstein's theory of general relativity profoundly changed our thinking about fundamental concepts in physics, such as space and time. But it also left us with some deep mysteries. One was black holes, which were only unequivocally detected over the pa…
Source: Phys.OrgApart from black holes, magnetars may be the most extreme stars in the universe. With a diameter less than the length of Manhattan, they pack more mass than that of our sun, wield the largest magnetic field of any known object—more than 10 trillion times stro…
Source: Phys.OrgSuch explosions could affect phone signal today, and help us understand the very beginnings of the universe
Source: IndependentA massive cold gas ejection signals the impending death of a vast star-forming galaxy.
Source: PennLiveUsing a signal from dozens of rapidly spinning, dead stars, astrophysicists have gotten closer to realizing their goal of detecting a background rumble of gravitational waves in the universe.
Source: Gizmodo.comNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system.
Source: NASADire wolves split from living canids around 5.7 million years ago and originated in the New World isolated from the ancestors of grey wolves and coyotes, which evolved in Eurasia and colonized North America only relatively recently.
Source: Nature.comRoom-temperature photon avalanching realized in single thulium-doped upconverting nanocrystals enables super-resolution imaging at near-infrared wavelengths of maximal biological transparency and provides a material platform potentially suitable for other opt…
Source: Nature.comScientists claim to have found the 'missing link' in the process that leads to an ice age on Earth.
Source: Phys.OrgResearchers at Columbia Engineering report today that they have developed the first nanomaterial that demonstrates "photon avalanching," a process that is unrivaled in its combination of extreme nonlinear optical behavior and efficiency. The realization of ph…
Source: Phys.OrgResearchers from Cardiff University reconstructed past climate conditions and identified tiny fragments of Antarctic rock dropped in the open ocean.
Source: Daily MailRelated video above: Here's Why Jupiter Never Became a Star
Source: Alton TelegraphNASA is targeting a two-hour test window that opens at 5 p.m. EST Saturday, Jan. 16, for the hot fire test of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket core stage at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
Source: NASANASA's Curiosity rover just celebrated its 3,000th day on Mars by taking a remarkable picture of the Red Planet.
Source: Fox NewsA remarkable prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity—the theory that connects space, time, and gravity—is that rotating black holes have enormous amounts of energy available to be tapped.
Source: Phys.OrgThe first commercial lunar landers are set to start making their trips to the moon as early as this year, and now another one has a confirmed ride booked...
Source: TechCrunchIn a case of comic mistaken identity, an international team of astronomers revealed that what they once thought was a supernova is actually periodic flaring from a galaxy where a supermassive black hole gives off bursts of energy every 114 days as it tears of…
Source: Phys.OrgA detection would be a space-exploration first.
Source: Space.comResearch by the University of New England has revealed how radiodonta's big eyes gave them the edge when hunting, forcing prey to adapt or die, and fuelling a surge in evolution.
Source: Daily MailScientists from the University of California spotted TOI-561b using the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, and confirmed their findings with Nasa's TESS satellite.
Source: Daily MailObservations from New Horizons at the edge of the solar system indicate there may be fewer galaxies than we thought.
Source: CNETRoughly every 114 days, almost like clockwork, a galaxy 570 million light-years away lights up like a firework. Since at least 2014, our observatories have recorded this strange behaviour; now, astronomers have put the pieces together to figure out w
Source: ScienceAlertMetals and insulators are the yin and yang of physics, their respective material properties strictly dictated by their electrons' mobility - metals should conduct electrons freely, while insulators keep them in place.
Source: ScienceAlertWhat's the right gift for a 3,000-Martian-day anniversary? Rocks?
Source: CNETOut there, somewhere in the cosmos, there could be a traversing black hole no longer at the center of its galaxy. In a journal published by the American Astronomical Society, scientists have noticed the supermassive black hole thought to be the center of Abel…
Source: ComicBook.comGovernment aims to vaccinate 12 million people by middle of February. With the NHS struggling, Robin McKie asks whether it is fast enough
Source: The GuardianClimate change, insecticides, herbicides, light pollution, invasive species and changes in agriculture and land use are causing Earth to lose about 1 per cent to 2 per cent of its insects each year, researchers say, resulting in what they call "death by a tho…
Source: CBC NewsA hot and rocky exoplanet known as a super-Earth has been discovered orbiting one of the oldest stars in our Milky Way galaxy, according to a new study.
Source: CNNThis French wine is truly out of this world. The SpaceX capsule will bring a case of Bordeaux back to Earth when it splashes down Wednesday — and it’s no vin ordinaire after aging in ou…
Source: New York PostPaleontologists have described the first three-dimensional preservation of soft tissue in Namacalathus hermanastes, a skeletal metazoan (multicellular animal) that lived some 547 million years ago (Ediacaran period) in what is now Namibia, and established a s…
Source: Sci-News.comIt might be the youngest ever, too.
Source: Space.comObservations from the New Horizons spacecraft wandering the edge of the solar system indicate there may be fewer galaxies populating the cosmos than we thought.
Source: CNETResearchers have found a simple way to eliminate almost all sequencing errors produced by a widely used portable DNA sequencer, potentially enabling scientists working outside the lab to study and track microorganisms like the SARS-CoV-2 virus more efficientl…
Source: Phys.OrgAs the rover has continued to ascend Mount Sharp, it's found distinctive benchlike rock formations.
Source: Phys.OrgAstronomers have confirmed the existence of a triple-star exoplanet located 1,800 light-years from Earth. Planets parked in multi-star systems are rare, but this object is particularly unusual owing to its inexplicably weird orbital alignment.
Source: Gizmodo.comThe universe has been making rocky planets for a long, long time.
Source: Space.comMore than a decade of observations suggests that something is affecting pulsar timings
Source: physicsworld.comNASA is targeting the final test in the Green Run series, the hot fire, for Sat., Jan.16. The hot fire is the culmination of the Green Run test series, an ei...
Source: YouTubeThe lead author of the new research package notes that insects "are absolutely the fabric by which Mother Nature and the tree of life are built."
Source: Common DreamsThe newfound planet likely can't support life.
Source: AxiosGalaxy ID2299 is losing its ability to form new stars, causing it to die.
Source: CBS NewsBaby sharks are being born smaller, undernourished and exhausted as climate change warms the world's oceans, researchers say.
Source: CNNBefore the first major Artemis mission takes off, NASA needs to prove its huge rocket system is up to the task. That calls for a hot fire test.
Source: CNETYellowstone National Park's Old Faithful geyser regularly blasts a jet of boiling water high in the air. Now, an international team of astronomers has discovered a cosmic equivalent, a distant galaxy that erupts roughly every 114 days.
Source: NASARolls-Royce and UK Space Agency hope to ‘revolutionise space travel’ with deal to build nuclear propulsion engines
Source: The GuardianNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system.
Source: NASARolls-Royce has joined forces with the Swindon-based UK Space Agency to explore the potential of nuclear power as a source of energy for future expeditions into deep space.
Source: Daily Mail"It’s more of a natural function."
Source: FuturismThere are nearly 2,000 active satellites in low-Earth orbit.
Source: Daily MailAs large sections of the globe have seen themselves plunged into further resurgences of the pandemic over the past few weeks there has been no let-up in the world of space exploration even for the …
Source: HackadayA number of planets described as Super-Earths have been discovered in recent memory, but researchers have recently spotted one unlike any other found to date.
Source: Fox NewsSpaceX is getting closer and closer to realizing the design for its Starship and Super Heavy launch system. Once complete, it will be the world's first fully reusable launch system and will facilitate trips to low Earth orbit (LEO), the moon and Mars. Constru…
Source: Phys.OrgI have long wondered about the Universe's wry sense of humor. After all, how else can it be that one of the most ethereal and ghostly particles in the cosmos is fundamentally responsible for some of the most colossal and violent explosions in it? New research…
Source: SYFY WIREAlthough it's inefficient, we can use voltage changes to write data to bacteria.
Source: Ars TechnicaWe are approaching a 50% increase from preindustrial times.
Source: Live ScienceIt’s hard to care about bootprints sunk in soil 238,900 miles away as humanity suffers the combined burden of an unforgiving virus and a political unease...
Source: Yahoo EntertainmentTwo well known ones - honeybees and Monarch butterflies - best illustrate insect declines, experts say..
Source: CBS NewsIn a surprising discovery, Princeton physicists have observed an unexpected quantum behavior in an insulator made from a material called tungsten ditelluride. This phenomenon, known as quantum oscillation, is typically observed in metals rather than insulator…
Source: Phys.OrgThe aftermath of a white dwarf collision shows a never-before-seen type of star in a neon green nebula.
Source: CNETIf you've heard something about a Starship bound for Mars, NASA astronauts riding a Dragon and Starlink broadband, here are the key details.
Source: CNETThousands of DIY enthusiasts around Australia are embracing a new trend to transform old glass bottles and jars into stunning chic vases.
Source: Daily MailTithonium Chasma is one big canyon. At a staggering 810 kilometres (503 miles) long, it's a large part of Valles Marineris - the biggest canyon system we know of in the whole Solar System.
Source: ScienceAlertA Southern California family is in mourning after three loved ones died in the span of three weeks.
Source: KABC-TVScientists decry death by 1,000 cuts for world’s insects
Source: NBC NewsScientists from the University of Bath have made a sustainable polymer using the second most abundant sugar in nature, xylose.
Source: Phys.OrgThe spacecraft was supposed to head home today, but it's stuck in orbit for now because of weather.
Source: Futurism‘Frightening’ global decline is ‘tearing apart tapestry of life’, with climate crisis a critical concern
Source: The GuardianTech Designed by University Students Could Shine Light on Extreme Lunar Environments
Source: NASAThree members of a Southern California family died of COVID-19 in as many weeks, according to a new report. Fabian Levario, 53, who went by the nickname Chino, never revealed how sick he was …
Source: New York PostScientists believe that planets like Earth bob in a sea of gravitational waves that spread throughout the universe. Now, an international team has gotten closer than ever before to detecting those cosmic ripples.
Source: CU Boulder TodayNew method enables electronic conversion of data into DNA
Source: Science MagazineA combined team of researchers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and the Royal Observatory of Belgium, has found evidence that Mars has a Chandler wobble. In their paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letter…
Source: Phys.OrgIt is well known that the expansion of the universe is accelerating due to a mysterious dark energy. Within galaxies, stars also experience an acceleration, though this is due to some combination of dark matter and the stellar density. In a new study to be pu…
Source: Phys.OrgAn international team of scientists may be close to detecting faint ripples in space-time that fill the universe.
Source: NASARough weather in the Atlantic forced the delay.
Source: Space.comScientists have used a "galaxy-sized" space observatory to find possible hints of a unique signal from gravitational waves, or the powerful ripples that course through the universe and warp the fabric of space and time itself.
Source: Phys.OrgIt’s not long now until the most ambitious mission humans have sent to another planet reaches its destination. On February 18, the world will watch in astonishment as the Perseverance rover descends upon the Jezero crater, hopefully opening a whole new chapte…
Source: autoevolutionEngineers at MIT and Imperial College London have developed a new way to generate tough, functional materials using a mixture of bacteria and yeast similar to the "kombucha mother" used to ferment tea.
Source: Phys.OrgAstronomers caught a glimpse of a galaxy ejecting nearly half of its star-forming gas, an indication of its imminent death.
Source: InverseEngineers at MIT and Imperial College London have developed a new way to generate tough, functional materials using a mix of bacteria and yeast similar to the “kombucha mother” used to ferment tea. Using this mix, called a Syn-SCOBY (synthetic symbiotic cultu…
Source: Mit.eduIn a galaxy far, far away, astronomers have discovered an incredibly beautiful phenomenon which sees a star-bursting ring surrounding a supermassive black hole, like the petals of a rose.
Source: RTFieldwork led by Dr. Eleanor Scerri, head of the Pan-African Evolution Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany and Dr. Khady Niang of the University of Cheikh Anta Diop in Senegal, has documented the youngest kno…
Source: Phys.OrgResearchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University mixed and designed a new, high-entropy alloy (HEA) superconductor, using extensive data on simple superconducting substances with a specific crystal structure. HEAs are known to preserve superconducting character…
Source: Phys.OrgThis six-minute visual exploration of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field showcases the characteristics and contents of this landmark observation, as well as its thr...
Source: YouTubeThe new discoveries at sites in Senegal on the West coast of Africa, by Max Planck Institute researchers, are fuelling a rethink of the passage of human evolution.
Source: Daily MailSPACEX is gearing up for the first high-altitude launch of the Starship SN9 prototype. After a pre-flight static fire test last week, the rocket could be ready to launch as early as Tuesday.
Source: ExpressNorthern hemisphere skywatchers can search for the planet this month as it rises higher each night
Source: The GuardianTHERE are enough resources in our solar system's outer asteroid rim to support a human population of 'trillions' according to a leading space expert.
Source: ExpressResearchers at Melbourne University have discovered a new link between Tasmanian tigers and wolves.The extinct animal has been found to be developmentally cl...
Source: YouTubeNew fossil detective work sheds light on the life of megalodon, the biggest predatory shark ever discovered.
Source: The Conversation AfricaJapanese researchers say they are working to build the world’s first satellite made of wood. The goal is to reduce the amount of space junk orbiting the planet.
Source: VOA NewsScientists have discovered that meteorites from the early Solar System held water until relatively recently, possibly contributing to life on Earth.
Source: EngadgetOne of your last chances to see Jupiter and Saturn for a while.
Source: ThrillistAnyone who’s ever visited the Grand Canyon in the United States knows how massive it is. The Grand Canyon certainly lives up to its name, but it’s got nothing on a canyon on the surface…
Source: SlashGearWelcome to "The curious observer’s guide to quantum mechanics"–featuring particle/wave duality.
Source: Ars TechnicaIt's the largest canyon in the solar system.
Source: Lifehacker.comJoe Biden is the United States presidential election winner, but his plans for NASA remain unclear. And while citizens digest the election results, the space industry is left wondering what comes next.
Source: EarthSkyAlthough alien transmission was ultimately dismissed as improbable, NASA's Ambassador to Utah Patrick Wiggins isn't losing hope of evidence arriving to prove there is...
Source: Sputnik InternationalAfter 2020, anyone would be forgiven for wanting to escape Earth, and Mars, the moon and the asteroid belt beckon
Source: The GuardianAn asteroid, classified as dangerous by NASA, could hit Earth in 2022 (Shutterstock) An explosion with the power of 150 Hiroshima bombs could leave an apocalyptic scenario on Earth in 2022. Much was made of the end of the world in 2012, but it seems that acco…
Source: TheNewsTraceNASA has selected four small astrophysics missions for further study, although the agency cautions that not all may ultimately be flown.
Source: SpaceNewsNASA has selected four small astrophysics missions for further study, although the agency cautions that not all may ultimately be flown.
Source: SpaceNewsSpaceX just released a recap video of their SN8 making its first-ever high-altitude hop test. Soon enough, the SN9 will be doing the same!
Source: Universe TodayNASA has picked four missions for smallsats and a balloon that will study galaxy evolution, exoplanets, neutron stars and neutrinos.
Source: EngadgetThe competition is a coding challenge in which NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) presents technical problems to high school students and seeks their contributions to deep space exploration missions.
Source: India TodayA pair of yellow clouds billowing from the centre of the Milky Way which have baffled astrophysicists for more than 70 years could finally have an explanation. Experts say they are one of two things.
Source: Daily MailThe FCC will allow SpaceX to launch 10 Starlink satellites into polar orbit on an upcoming mission, but deferred a decision on its overall license change.
Source: SpaceNewsTiny pieces of diamond can be stretched to change their electronic properties
Source: physicsworld.comMeteorites that formed in the earliest days of the solar system may contain liquid water, according to new research, lending credence to the theory that meteorites brought water and other precursors for life to our planet billions of years ago.
Source: Gizmodo.comResearchers have produced the most comprehensive platypus genome yet, as well as that of another monotreme, an echidna.
Source: New York TimesBehold the platypus. You can almost hear David Attenborough’s soothing voice describing a creature so peculiar, the mystery of how it came into being has given too many scientists a headache.
Source: SYFY WIREAcross Twitter on Friday, open-source advocates and academics alike poured one out following the suspension of Sci-Hub, a site that lets researchers bypass the costly paywalls for more than 70 million papers from across the globe.
Source: Gizmodo.comAn uncrewed cargo Dragon capsule is scheduled to splash down off the Florida coast on Monday evening roughly 12 hours after its departure from the International Space Station.
Source: FOX 35 OrlandoScientists may need to add a negative leap second so atomic clocks can remain accurate
Source: SalonNASA and ESA's telescope has an eye for gorgeous galaxy mergers.
Source: CNETAn update on the Green Run hot fire test for Artemis I, a commercial cargo spacecraft leaves the space station, and innovative ideas for exploring unexplored...
Source: YouTubeThe Hubble Space Telescope has successfully measured the highly eccentric and distant orbit of an…
Source: NASASpaceflight.comWe can make rocket fuel on Mars in one step! Check out how methane will move future space missions.
Source: Interesting EngineeringElon Musk's company SpaceX is building a vehicle that could transform space travel.
Source: Yahoo EntertainmentNew research led by the University of South Florida has uncovered one of the reasons jellyfish have come to be known as the "world's most efficient swimmer." Brad Gemmell, associate professor of integrative biology, found jellyfish produce two vortex rings, w…
Source: Phys.OrgIt's a happy day for anyone who loves Jupiter photos and marsquakes.
Source: CNETNASA and ESA's telescope has an eye for gorgeous galaxy mergers.
Source: CNETIn 2020, astronomers added a new member to an exclusive family of exotic objects with the discovery of a magnetar. New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory help support the idea that it is also a pulsar, meaning it emits regular pulses of light.
Source: Phys.OrgResearchers with the University of Arizona have released a new close-up image of Mars's giant canyon that was taken with NASA's HiRISE camera which sits
Source: PetaPixelEarly hominins succeeded by being generalists with basic, versatile tools.
Source: Ars TechnicaNew probes allow scientists to see four-stranded DNA interacting with molecules inside living human cells, unraveling its role in cellular processes.
Source: Phys.OrgA team of researchers affiliated with institutions in Australia, the U.S. and France has found evidence of relatively recent water movement in meteorites that only recently collided with the Earth. In their paper published in the journal Science, the group de…
Source: Phys.OrgNarinder Kapany, physicist who co-invented fiber optics as well as coining the term, died December 3 in Redwood City, California at the age of 94.
Source: Legacy.comLawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have discovered that carbon nanotube membrane pores could enable ultra-rapid dialysis processes that would greatly reduce treatment time for hemodialysis patients.
Source: Phys.OrgA SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from a launchpad in the U.S. state of Florida to deploy a new-generation Turkish communication satellite into orbit late Thursday. The U.S....
Source: Daily SabahEarth isn't a clock, and the actual length of a day can vary slightly. Scientists now say that the days have started trending shorter because the Earth is spinning faster, which could require potentially confusing adjustments.
Source: ExtremeTechIt's a long shot of an idea, but when it comes to the early universe, it's the best we've got.
Source: Live ScienceThe space agency confirmed the four massive engines will be bolted to the ground during the firing - the final test before an uncrewed test flight later this year.
Source: Daily MailCellular senescence, a state of permanent growth arrest, has emerged as a hallmark and fundamental driver of organismal aging. It is regulated by both genetic and epigenetic factors. Despite a few previously reported aging-associated genes, the identity and r…
Source: Medical XpressPopocatépetl volcano near Mexico City has been erupting since January 2005. On January 6, Mexico’s National Center for Prevention of Disasters, which continuously monitors the volcano, warned people not to approach due to an outburst that caused falling ash a…
Source: EarthSkyEven the Earth wanted 2020 to be over in a hurry: Our planet spun faster than normal last year, scientists say.
Source: USA TodayThe first complete map of a platypus genome has just been released, and it's every bit as strange as you'd expect from a creature with 10 sex chromosomes, a pair of venomous spurs, a coat of fluorescent fur, and skin that 'sweats' milk.
Source: ScienceAlertSeeing our world through the eyes of a migratory bird would be a rather spooky experience. Something about their visual system allows them to 'see' our planet's magnetic field, a clever trick of quantum physics and biochemistry that helps them naviga
Source: ScienceAlertEUVST telescope will study how solar winds emanate from the sun, creating ‘space weather’<br>
Source: The GuardianElon Musk's company had its busiest year ever in 2020 and is gearing up for even more launches in 2021.
Source: CNETUsing data collected over 18 years of observations, scientists now say that the planet Mars is wobbling. The planet’s wiggling results in its poles moving on a regular basis. Earth also has a wobble, but the Mars wobble is a bit more of a mystery than Earth’s…
Source: BGRElon Musk's company had its busiest year ever in 2020 and is gearing up for even more launches in 2021.
Source: CNETNASA and ESA's telescope has an eye for gorgeous galaxy mergers.
Source: CNETResearch finds they differ by an average of 5.2 early mutations, adding new perspective to nature-versus-nurture debates
Source: The GuardianRoad closures are in place from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. local time on Thursday and Friday for "anticipated test launch activities for SpaceX."
Source: Fox BusinessNASA/JPL and the University of Arizona released these glorious new images of the largest canyon in the solar system: Valles Marineris on Mars. At more than 4,000km long and 7km deep, the system of …
Source: Boing BoingA Harvard University professor released a new book, making the case that humans are likely not alone in the universe.
Source: WVLT.TVThe standout rocket event this year will surely be the ride to orbit of Hubble's $10bn successor.
Source: Yahoo EntertainmentNASA satellite images spotted one of the largest volcanoes in North America blowing steam, just a matter of days before the volcano mildly erupted.
Source: ExpressWaddling, wriggling, ambling, digging, laying eggs. There’s no shortage of verbiage when it comes to describing monotremata—the taxonomic order made up of only two animals, the platypus and the echidna.
Source: Gizmodo.comNASA has chosen four small-scale astrophysics missions for further concept development in a new program called Pioneers.
Source: NASANew research indicates adolescent offspring of the menacing saber-toothed predator, Smilodon fatalis, were more momma's cubs than independent warriors.
Source: Phys.OrgBirds have mastered a subtle trick
Source: Science MagazineSpaceX is gearing up for another Starship launch. The firm successfully tested SN9's Raptor engines and placed air restrictions around its Texas testing facility Friday through Sunday.
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