Scientists recently discovered something about male mice that's utterly bananas: The distinctive scent of a banana stresses them out. Researchers from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, learned … [+3449 chars]
Photo by Terry Vlisidis on Unsplash Hydrogen has three isotopes Hydrogen-1 (or normal hydrogen), Hydrogen-2 (Deuterium), and Hydrogen-3 (Tritium). While regular hydrogen is a single electron orbiti… [+98 chars]
The launch of NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, set to visit a metal asteroid, has been delayed due to a software issue. As reported by SpaceFlightNow, there was a technical issue during testing which means… [+2320 chars]
A navigation system glitch that struck NASA's MAVEN orbiter at Mars earlier this year has hobbled the spacecraft's ability to conduct science and study the Red Planet's atmosphere. The MAVEN spacecr… [+3029 chars]
Voyager 1 is the farthest human-made object from Earth. After sweeping by Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, it is now almost 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth in interstellar sp… [+5845 chars]
Artist impression of gate operations on logical quantum bits, that are protected from faults by means of quantum error correction. Credit: Johannes Knünz Fundamental Building Blocks for Fault-Tolera… [+4573 chars]
Hummingbirds may face extinction as a result of global warming, Newsweek reports on a new study. Scientists predict that the avian species will have to migrate north in search of cooler climates or p… [+3730 chars]
A navigation system glitch that struck NASA's MAVEN orbiter at Mars earlier this year has hobbled the spacecraft's ability to conduct science and study the Red Planet's atmosphere. The MAVEN spacecr… [+3029 chars]
Sometimes science throws up some mind-blowing sights. For instance, we now finally have photographic evidence that there is a black hole right in the middle of our galaxy, and it only took a telescop… [+9635 chars]
There's a revolution underway in astronomy. In fact, you might say there are several. In the past ten years, exoplanet studies have advanced considerably, gravitational wave astronomy has emerged as … [+7317 chars]
Recent evidence suggests that Europas icy shell may have pockets of liquid water: Because its closer to the surface, where you get interesting chemicals from space, other moons, and the volcanoes of… [+4313 chars]
For hundreds of millions of years, Earths climate has warmed and cooled with natural fluctuations in the level of carbon dioxide (CO) in the atmosphere. Over the past century, humans have pushed CO l… [+7013 chars]
