Luis Calçada, a science visualization artist who works with the European Southern Observatory, chose another hot Jupiter: Vega b. This star, which is only 25 light-years away from us, is central to … [+1827 chars]
The House voted to decriminalize marijuana and remove it from the list of banned controlled substances at the federal level on Friday. Now, the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act,… [+3435 chars]
SHANGHAI/BEIJING, April 2 (Reuters) - China on Saturday proposed revising confidentiality rules involving offshore listings, removing a legal hurdle to Sino-U.S. cooperation on audit oversight while … [+2886 chars]
Growing up in the Bronx during the 1960s and '70s, one of my mentors in astronomy was Dr. Kenneth L. Franklin, Chairman and chief scientist at New York's Hayden Planetarium, who wrote about celestial… [+6219 chars]
Researchers studying recordings made by microphones on NASA's Perseverance rover found that sound travels much slower on Mars than it does on Earth. In a study published in Nature on Friday, the team… [+2431 chars]
An amusement park ride safety expert is expressing hope that the industry will adopt better safety measures after a teenager died following a fall from the Orlando FreeFall ride last month. Tyre Sam… [+3614 chars]