Researchers have identified the earliest known relative of modern-day vampyropods. The family of creatures includes both octopuses and squid. The scientists published a study in the journal Nature Co… [+2423 chars]
October 4, 2022, will be an auspicious day as humanity celebrates the 65th anniversary of the beginning of the Space Age. It all began in 1957 with the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik-1, the f… [+10884 chars]
To find features like groundwater under Earth 's surface — or under the surface of another world — scientists can sense the subtle marks those features leave in the planet's gravitational field. Bu… [+3544 chars]
NASA wants to go back to the Moon, and its using a giant rocket to do it. The only problem is, SpaceX has a very similar plan in the works. The space agency made history when Apollo 11 sent humans… [+4216 chars]
According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, anything that falls into the black hole can not escape its clutches. In the 1970s, Stephen Hawking found that an isolated black hole would emit r… [+2258 chars]
image: Using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system, researchers have shown that herbivore-damaged plants give off volatile chemical scents that trigger epigenetic modifications in the defense genes … [+5248 chars]
Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Meter Matrix ([{” attribute=””>ALMA) in Chile, researchers at Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands have for the first time detected dimethyl ether in a planet-f… [+8038 chars]