“Shocking” Results When WWI Helmets Were Compared to Modern Military Designs
WWI helmets protect against shock waves just as well as modern design. French Adrian helmet suggests simple geometry may save brains from overhead blasts. Biomedical…
WWI helmets protect against shock waves just as well as modern design. French Adrian helmet suggests simple geometry may save brains from overhead blasts. Biomedical…
A recent update to this historic portrait shows Earth as a tiny speck surrounded by the vastness of space. For the 30th anniversary of one…
Analysis of a portion of the data looks at nearby stars that could see Earth transiting sun. On Friday (February 14, 2020), the Breakthrough Listen…
Researchers Butantan Institute succeeded in reducing the toxicity and potentiating the analgesic effect of crotoxin by encapsulating it in nanostructured silica — the results of…
Synthetic chemicals that were released into the environment for the first time 80 years ago have been linked to harmful health effects, and more of…
Rising ocean temperatures drove the melting of Antarctic ice sheets and caused extreme sea level rise more than 100,000 years ago, a new international study…
Jellyfish Can Sting Swimmers, Prey With “Mucus Grenades” Interdisciplinary research team discovers, describes new free-floating jellyfish stinging structures. In warm coastal waters around the world,…
Bats’ fierce immune systems drive viruses to higher virulence, making them deadlier in humans. It’s no coincidence that some of the worst viral disease outbreaks…
The Pine Island Glacier recently spawned an iceberg over 300 sq km (116 sq mi) that very quickly shattered into pieces. This almost cloud-free image,…
The tropical region of South America is one of the world’s hot spots when it comes to animal diversity. The region’s extinct fauna is unique,…
Researchers develop an enhanced device to transform CO2 into valuable chemicals 10 times faster than previous versions. Fuel cells turn chemicals into electricity. Now, a…
Last night, ESA’s Planetary Defence team observed the rare moment in which an object escaped our planet’s gravity, in contrast to their normal objects of…
NASA Prepares for Moon and Mars With New Addition to Its Deep Space Network Surrounded by California desert, NASA officials broke ground Tuesday, February 11,…
Physicists demonstrate energy quantization in high-temperature superconductors. The development of a quantum computer that can solve problems, which classical computers can only solve with great…
Some people are annoyingly good at “reading between the lines.” They seem to know, well before anyone else, who is the killer in a movie,…
Radiation from dying stars is luminous enough to easily spin up orbiting asteroids to break-up speed New study led by University of Warwick astronomer computes…
The world is waking up to the fact that human-driven carbon emissions are responsible for warming our climate, driving unprecedented changes to ecosystems, and placing…
A tilted orbit may explain the asteroid Pallas’ highly cratered surface. Asteroids come in all shapes and sizes, and now astronomers at MIT and elsewhere…