Don't miss Spica greet the waxing moon in the southern sky on May 26
Paleontologists in Canada say they have recovered a dinosaur tail vertebra from 75- to 80-million-year-old marine rocks on a small island off the coast of British Columbia, providing the clearest evidence yet that bird-like ornithomimosaurs once roamed the an…
Human reproduction beyond Earth is no longer reserved for science fiction.
Flashes of femtosecond laser light, lasting just a few trillionths of a second, have made it possible to observe new magnetic structures for the first time. By using light as a remote control, researchers were able to switch magnetism into previously unseen t…
In late 1971, after NASA approved the idea of sending a message aboard Pioneer 10, Carl Sagan was given just three weeks to prepare it. Working with astronomer Frank Drake and artist Linda Salzman Sagan, he helped create a six-by-nine-inch gold-anodized alumi…
A new Physical Review Letters study places constraints on the ER = EPR conjecture, showing that under the authors' assumptions, the conjecture would imply possible alterations to the hyperfine structure and effective charge of the hydrogen atom—effects that h…
The very premium air leak in the very best Russian part of the International Space Station is back! It may well be that, much like the Little Green Men in…
As the command module Columbia slipped behind the Moon on the afternoon of July 20, 1969 and lost radio contact with the world, Mission Control said over the open air: “Not since Adam has any human known such solitude as Mike Collins is experiencing during th…
For two decades, physicists have predicted the existence of a remarkable family of exotic molecules: giant atoms bound to ordinary atoms, with an electron so distant from its nucleus that it sculpts the pair into bizarre and diverse shapes. Reported in Physic…
Solar panels have become more efficient over the years, but even the best designs still lose a large fraction of the energy they absorb. Scientists around the world have been searching for ways to capture more energy from every ray of sunlight and unlock the …
On 7 December 1995, a small probe released by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft entered the atmosphere of Jupiter and transmitted data as it fell. It kept transmitting for about 58 minutes before rising heat and pressure ended the signal. In that time it returned the…
On November 17, 1970, a Soviet unmanned mission called Luna 17 landed on the Sea of Rains, a vast basalt plain on the near side of the Moon. The lander deployed a remote-controlled rover called Lunokhod 1, the first robotic vehicle ever to operate on the surf…
An analysis of 85 dinosaur species shows that tiny forearms in meat-eating dinosaurs were the result of an evolutionary trade-off.
Imagine standing under a tent on a karst hillside in Puerto Rico, on an afternoon in November 1974, watching the dedication of a remodeled radio telescope.For just under three minutes it warbles at the sky. Then it stops. The audience around you has just hear…
Physicists in South Africa ran the math on collapsing neutron stars and landed somewhere odd. Researchers from Durban University of Technology and the...
There are a surprising number of experiments an amateur nuclear physicist can perform, from making a Geiger counter to fusing hydrogen atoms in a fusor. One project which we haven’t seen before is …
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a batch of Starlink satellites on Memorial Day morning from Florida. See the photos.
On 26 September 1991, eight people were sealed inside Biosphere 2, a three-acre enclosure of glass and steel near Oracle, Arizona. They stayed for two years. And the oxygen in their sealed atmosphere did fall, slowly and persistently, until it reached a level…
Neuroscience needs to stop treating the brain as if it is a computer.
"Observing gamma rays from supernovas will give us a new way to explore their inner workings."
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