Though sci-fi movies would have us believe that space is incredibly cold — even freezing — space itself isn’t exactly cold. In fact, it doesn’t actually have a temperature at all. Temperature is a … [+5823 chars]
Scientists in California are asking for U.S. volunteers who live with cats to participate in a new research project. The study will survey owners about their pets behaviors and their knowledge of tra… [+2924 chars]
Using images collected by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, researchers have traced the progress of a landslide on the asteroid Bennu that resulted from an impact with another object. The team determine… [+3557 chars]
In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published his magnum opus, Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which effectively synthesized his theories on motion, velocity, and universal gravitation. In terms o… [+10666 chars]
New material has been maintaining high stability of the rover Zhurong on China's Tianwen-1 probe, according to the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The researchers fro… [+1420 chars]
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A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has developed a new technique that allows scientists and engineers to, for the first time, visualize mRNA molecules in the brains of living mice. The re… [+4237 chars]
A new analysis by a team of physicists offers an innovative means to predict "cosmological signatures" for models of dark matter. A team of physicists has developed a method for predicting the compo… [+4658 chars]
Astrophysicists have discovered the fastest known star which is racing around the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. The star, designated S4716, completes an orbit around the supermassive bla… [+3385 chars]
A GEOMAGNETIC storm may hit Earth today, forecasters have warned. On July 6, a stream of solar wind is expected to hit Earth's magnetic field, experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Assoc… [+2321 chars]
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A recent picture by the DESI Legacy Imaging Survey features a mysterious globular cluster Whiting 1 in the galactic halo. So, what is Whiting 1 and why do we care about it? Whiting 1 is a faint and … [+3828 chars]
