NASA’s Orion spacecraft will splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday at 9:39 a.m. PST (12:39 p.m. EST), bringing an end to a several-week-long…
Scientists Shine a Light on What Comes Up When You Flush Thanks to new research, scientists see the impact of flushing the toilet in a…
A team of researchers at JILA has for the first time successfully combined two of the “spookiest” features of quantum mechanics to make a better…
A recently discovered, never-before-seen phenomenon in a type of quantum material could be explained by a series of buzzing, bee-like “loop-currents.” The discovery from physicists…
Evoking parallels to HIV, authors are calling on global health community to be vigilant. According to new research, an obscure family of viruses, already endemic…
According to new research from the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Boulder), just five U.S. universities have trained 1-in-8 tenure-track faculty members serving at…
According to a recent report in The Space Review, Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead. The basic…
Tiny grains of dust may hop around on the surface of asteroids like corn kernels popping in a frying pan, according to a new study…
How scientists hope to use algae-grown limestone to build cities The burning of limestone from quarries contributes significantly to the 7% of the yearly greenhouse…
The theory of relativity was developed by Albert Einstein in the early 1900s due to the inability of classical physics to explain certain observations. It…
NASA’s MAVEN Spacecraft Resumes Science & Operations, Exits Safe Mode After three months in safe mode, NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft has finally returned to normal science…
Something weird is going on in the galaxy known as 1ES 1927+654: In late 2017, and for reasons that scientists couldn’t explain, the supermassive black…
Billions of years ago, a series of volcanic eruptions raged on the moon, blanketing hundreds of thousands of square miles of the orb’s surface in…
CU Boulder scientists have successfully synthesized graphyne, which has been theorized for decades but never successfully produced. For over a decade, scientists have attempted to…
On March 18, 2022, Russia launched a hypersonic missile against a Ukrainian arms depot in the western part of the country. That may sound frightening,…
New analysis confirms a palpable change in fire dynamics already suspected by many. Fires have gotten larger, more frequent, and more widespread across the United…
Fire ants survive floods by forming rafts made up of thousands of wriggling insects. New research reveals how these creepy-crawly lifeboats change shape over time….
The accidental experiment will shed light on the physics of impacts in space. On March 4, 2022, a lonely, spent rocket booster will smack into…
