Ten years ago, as a new PhD graduate looking for my next position, I found myself in the academic cold. Nothing says you are an outsider more than a paywall asking US$38 for one article. That fuelled… [+5319 chars]
The discovery photograph of Pluto found by Clyde W. Tombaugh of Lowell Observatory in 1930. Astronomers today suspect that there might be a previously unknown Planet 9 in the distant solar system, bu… [+4130 chars]
Rice University engineers Sibani Lisa Biswal and Kedar Joshi discover unusual properties in magnetized colloids that surprisingly adhere to the physics described by Kelvins equation, which models the… [+4943 chars]
A NASA spacecraft is on its way to slam into a space rock, but what happens next is still unclear. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ) mission launched in November and will arrive at its d… [+4387 chars]
We remember it in 2016, to celebrate the 55th birthdayAnd the Trip memory Yuri Gagarin On April 12, 1961, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced – with the support of Stephen Hawking – He was laun… [+5575 chars]
Smart smoke detectors are one of many smart technologies entering the market for homeowners. These modern smoke detectors have more safety features than traditional smoke detectors, and many of them … [+4289 chars]
Curtin researchers have recovered a freshly fallen meteorite after pinpointing its exact location on the vast Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia, with a new technique that uses a drone to collect f… [+3162 chars]
The fact that global warming will increase temperatures over land masses, increasing the frequency of droughts and heat waves, is a certainty -- as is the fact that climate change will alter the aver… [+4881 chars]
We remember it in 2016, to celebrate the 55th birthdayAnd the Trip memory Yuri Gagarin On April 12, 1961, Russian billionaire Yuri Milner announced – with the support of Stephen Hawking – He was laun… [+5575 chars]
Artists impression of a (now-disproven) candidate planet formerly thought to be orbiting the star Alpha Centauri B, which is part of the triple star system closest to Earth. (Credit: ESO/L. Calçada/N… [+6214 chars]
A new ultra-powerful scan of the Great Pyramid of Giza using cosmic rays could reveal the identities of two mysterious voids inside. The largest of the two voids is located just above the grand… [+4314 chars]
Smart smoke detectors are one of many smart technologies entering the market for homeowners. These modern smoke detectors have more safety features than traditional smoke detectors, and many of them … [+4289 chars]
