The Earth exists in a dangerous environment. Cosmic bodies, like asteroids and comets, are constantly zooming through space and often crash into our planet. Most of these are too small to pose a thre… [+7654 chars]
Ingenuity during its 20th flight on Mars on Feb. 25, 2022. NASA/JPL-Caltech Weve now flown on the Red Planet 20 times over. Soaring above the surface of Jezero Crater, the plucky Ingenuity drone h… [+2086 chars]
Water molecule in liquid phase accelerating dynamics by X-ray radiation Credit: Osamu Takahashi, Hiroshima University Water is an abundant and essential compound, found everywhere on earth. Yet desp… [+4388 chars]
NASAs plans to return astronauts to the Moon are turning out to be an absolute disaster. The first crewed trip to the lunar surface was initially scheduled to take place in 2024. But according to a … [+3264 chars]
Two emerging Australian space startups have signed a deal to test new Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) models in space. The partnership between AICRAFT and Antaris Space, a memor… [+3405 chars]
Your DNA holds the blueprint to build your body, but it’s a living document: Adjustments to the design can be made by epigenetic marks.Epigenetic marks are modifications to DNA bases that don’t chang… [+5166 chars]
The Earth exists in a dangerous environment. Cosmic bodies, like asteroids and comets, are constantly zooming through space and often crash into our planet. Most of these are too small to pose a thre… [+7654 chars]
Hydrogels have an astonishing ability to swell and take on water. In daily life, they are used in dressings, nappies, and more to lock moisture away. A team of researchers has now found another use: … [+2756 chars]
Ultimately, to me, this variation is very minor and not indicative of meaningful biological separation of distinct species that can be defined based on clear, explicit, consistent differences, Univer… [+1644 chars]
Fossils that be became extinct millions of years ago can reveal various aspects of how they lived. Credit: W.J.Foster Two-hundred fifty-two million years ago, volcanic eruptions led to massive clima… [+4798 chars]
Ball-and-stick model of carbon dioxide. Credit: Wikipedia To split the chemical bonds in CO2 molecules, heat is needed. One way to get this heat is from plasmas, and it’s been long known that plasma… [+4786 chars]
For almost 10 years, NASA's NuSTAR (Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) X-ray space observatory has been studying some of the highest-energy objects in the universe, such as colliding dead stars a… [+6113 chars]
