At first glance, Pando is unimpressive. If you aren't looking for it, you could easily drive past the homogenous forest of stems ranging from a few inches to some ...
Humans are already thought to be largely responsible for the almost complete extinction of massive mammals, simply because we can't stop killing the big ones.
The largest living organism, not to mention one of the oldest, lives in the Fishlake National Forest in central Utah. Sometimes called the Trembling Giant, ...
Behold the Pando aspen clone, a sprawling carpet of vibrant green-yellow quaking aspens occupying more than 100 acres outside the Fishlake National Forest ...
WASHINGTON, Oct 18 (Reuters) - You can call it a prehistoric prequel. Scientists said on Thursday they have unearthed in southern Germany the fossil of a fish ...
A new fossil discovery looks more like an incredibly well-preserved 150 million-year-old Jurassic crime scene. This species of flesh-eating fish is considered the ...
A piranha-like fish with a mouth full of pointy teeth (some even jutting down from the roof of its mouth) once swam the Jurassic seas, ripping flesh or even fins ...
NASA's InSight Mars lander carries a five-fingered metallic claw at the end of its robotic arm that's crucial to the robot's mission. Here's how that claw will work.
Scoring a stuffed animal or small trinket from a classic claw game at your local arcade can leave you feeling frustrated and full of rage, so imagine the...
China appears on course to launch its first independent interplanetary mission in 2020, as the country continues progress on its Mars orbiter and autonomous ...
A monthslong journey. Docking on a faraway moon. What scenarios would make a human voyage to Mars possible? In late September, four experts participated ...
In Sweden, girls are just as likely to go to school and university as boys are. Women make up a greater proportion of the country's professional and technical ...
Imagine an egalitarian society that treats women and men with equal respect, where both sexes are afforded the same opportunities, and the economy is strong.
The extraordinary flying ability of dandelion seeds is possible thanks to a form of flight that has not been seen before in nature, research has revealed.
The dandelion is to gardeners a common, pesky weed. But its seeds have a unique approach to flight that physicists have never seen before and could inform ...
Dandelion seeds are great fliers, but scientists didn't know why. Now, a study shows it's the result of a kind of air bubble the seeds naturally create.
A city in China is planning to launch a satellite planned to be eight times as bright as the Full Moon to illuminate urban streets at night, but one astronomer thinks ...
Moonlit skies over the Chinese city of Chengdu may soon get a boost from a second moon. City officials recently announced plans to build an artificial moon, ...
The Moon is great, but apparently it's just not enough for the city of Chengdu in China. Not satisfied with the meager light the Moon reflects back down to Earth at ...
The sky will light up this weekend as the Orionid meteor shower peaks. The moon will lead to subpar views for this night sky display. The meteors that streak ...
The Orionid meteor shower should be visible Friday and Saturday nights, but the best views are expected to be Sunday morning after the moon has set but ...
The Orionid meteor shower will peak on October 21 and 22 and this year is expected to produce between 15 and 20 meteors per hour. This year's shower is a ...
MARYLAND — The Orionid meteor shower won't hit its peak until the weekend, but sky-gazers should search the skies over Maryland now. By the time the peak ...
Searching for a fun thing to do this weekend? How about looking up! The Orionid meteor shower peaks over the next few days, unleashing as many as 15 to 20 ...
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University of Oregon scientists used real dust from inside homes around Portland to test the effects of sunlight, UV light and darkness on bacteria found in the dust.Dave G Kelly/Getty Images
All kinds of bacteria live with us indoors, and some can make us sick. A new study shows that rooms exposed to light had about half the live bacteria found in ...
All kinds of bacteria live with us indoors, and some can make us sick. A new study shows that rooms exposed to light had about half the live bacteria found in ...
Even before Florence Nightingale advised that hospitals be designed to let daylight in, people observed that sunshine helps keep you healthy. But there was.
Failing to open curtains fully makes people more likely to get sick, a new study suggests. It found sunlight kills disease-causing bacteria that live in dust,...
If you're still hunting for a soundtrack for your Halloween party, what about this ghostly tune by the Ross Ice Shelf? Antarctica's largest ice shelf "sings" when ...
A Texas-sized ice shelf seems to be dabbling in the art of music. The Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica it is emitting tones reminiscent of a didgeridoo, or the drone of a ...
Stephen Hawking's final book, Brief Answers to the Big Questions, was released posthumously Tuesday by his children. Now, when Hawking died earlier this ...
The late globally renowned physicist Stephen Hawking makes a few bold declarations in his new posthumously released book, one stating that there is no God.
In "Brief Answers to the Big Questions," published posthumously Tuesday, Stephen Hawking examined the question: What of our universe do we owe to God, ...
Legendary physicist Stephen Hawking did not believe in the existence of God, his final book reveals. The posthumous manuscript also delves into alien theories ...
WALLOPS ISLAND, Virginia — The private spaceflight company Rocket Lab has a new spaceport, and it's in Virginia. The California-based startup Rocket Lab, ...
(18 Oct 2018) Rocket Lab, a California-based startup, says it will launch small satellites into orbit from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. (Oct. 18)
Rocket Lab officially unveiled its plan to build a commercial launch site at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport on Virginia's Wallops Island, with liftoffs due to ...
Rocket Lab is set to build a launchpad at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility where unmanned cargo missions already are dispatched to the International Space ...
Small launch vehicle company Rocket Lab announced Oct. 17 that it will build its second launch pad, and first in the United States, at Wallops in Virginia.
In 1994, MIT professor of applied mathematics Peter Shor developed a groundbreaking quantum computing algorithm capable of factoring numbers (that is, ...
Entrepreneurs and physicists are pursuing a new kind of computer—one based on the physics of the subatomic particles—that promises to revolutionize various ...
Dr. Seth Lloyd, an MIT professor and self-described “quantum mechanic,” describes the quantum mechanics behind time travel during a guest lecture at the ...
The hype around quantum computing is real. But to fully realize the promise of quantum computing, it'll still take a few years of research and scientific ...
It is widely believed that large-scale quantum computers, when they are built, will outperform their standard, “classical” counterparts. This supposition has ...
A joint mission between the European Space Agency and the Japanese Space Agency, the BepiColumbo mission consists of three spacecraft that will travel ...
Godzilla ranks as one of cinema's most famous monsters and is among the most recognizable symbols of Japanese popular culture. In the original 1954 movie, ...
Godzilla stands as one of Japan's most famous exports, and the kaiju has fans all over the world. So, it was just a matter of time until the King of the Monsters ...
Unless you've got access to a radio telescope that can read gamma rays from zillions of light years across the galaxy, don't expect to look up into the night sky ...
Having wreaked havoc in both the worlds of live-action film and animation, legendary movie monster Godzilla has only one place left to conquer: outer space!
The king of monsters earned his place among the stars this week as NASA announced Godzilla is joining heroes like Hercules, Perseus, and Orion as a ...
WASHINGTON: Stephen Hawking's final work, which tackles issues from the existence of God to the potential for time travel, was launched on Monday by his ...
Stephen Hawking's final work was launched on Monday by his children, who helped complete the book after the British astrophysics giant's death and his last ...
In what would be somewhat of a revelation had the late theoretical physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking not been one of the world's most famous ...
“The Standard Model as it stands cannot possibly be right because it cannot predict why the universe exists,” said Gerald Gabrielse, the Board of Trustees ...
Few things in science seem to be as controversial as claims to the oldest evidence of life on Earth. As researchers strive to push life's origins back further into the ...
Two years ago, researchers from the University of Wollongong in Australia shook the science world by claiming to have discovered 3.7 billion-year-old fossils in ...
Hunting for fossils is a difficult business in the first place, but the challenge is multiplied the farther back in time you're searching. Finding bones from a dinosaur ...
Major SpaceX customer Iridium has set an official target date for its eighth and final Iridium NEXT launch, expected to fly on a flight-proven Falcon 9 Block 5 ...
Nick Hague is back in the United States following last week's aborted launch of a Soyuz-FG rocket. The NASA astronaut has now described the incident to the ...
An international team of researchers has successfully produced a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in space for the first time. In their paper published in the ...
Tyrannosaurus rex is often mocked for its puny, laughable arms, but new research indicates the fearsome dinosaurs could do a lot more with their little limbs ...
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Scientists Discover Enormous 'Proto-Supercluster': Study
Light's speed limit means that looking into the distance is the same as looking into the past: The farther incoming light travels, the older it is. Out in the distance, ...
Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, a team of astronomers have uncovered the largest structure ever found in the early universe ...
SANTIAGO, Oct 18 — Astronomers peering billions of light years into space have detected the largest, most extensive collection of galaxies ever registered in ...
Researchers at Emory University took fMRI scans of recently trained dogs to study how the canines comprehend human-language commands. Although you can ...
It turns out that dogs really do understand human language, according to new research. They process spoken word in a similar way to humans, and in the same ...
Dogs really can understand language … just like their owners say, according to new research. They even process the spoken word in a similar way to humans...
Insects around the world are in a crisis, according to a small but growing number of long-term studies showing dramatic declines in invertebrate populations.
Evidence of a big, unseen world in the extreme outer solar system continues to mount, giving astronomers more and more confidence that 'Planet Nine' is real.
Elon Musk's SpaceX is having trouble keeping track of its trash. For the second time in the past year, rocket debris from a SpaceX launch has washed up on ...
Teen scientists searched for meteorites at the bottom of Lake Michigan for the Aquarius Project, an expedition run in collaboration with Adler Planetarium.
A woman recently posted a warning about poisonous mushrooms that could kill pets that went viral, but left some questioning the accuracy of the warning.
A $1.8 billion US Air Force communications satellite hitched a ride aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket in the early morning hours of Wednesday as it ...
An Atlas 5 rocket carrying the U.S. Air Force's fourth AEHF secure communications satellite lifts off at 12:15 a.m. EDT (0415 GMT) Wednesday from Cape ...
CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, Florida — A high-tech military satellite is now in space after it blasted off from Florida's Space Coast on Wednesday ...
Every year, the Breakthrough Prize Foundation awards a collective total of $22 million to nine researchers for achievements in the Life Sciences, Fundamental ...
The program known as the “Oscars of Science” has revealed who'll be getting the spotlight at next month's Breakthrough Prize ceremony in Silicon Valley.
The winners of the Breakthrough Prize, known as the world's most generous science prize, were announced on Wednesday morning. Each recipient will receive ...
CSH Scientist Earns $3M 'Oscar Of Science' Award - Huntington, NY - He helped develop the first therapy for children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, the leading ...
Karl R. Wolfe was killed in the crash on October 10 in Lansing, New York, after he was struck from behind by a tractor trailer traveling southbound on North ...
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Scientists have discovered four planets orbiting a relatively young star that's located 500 light-years away.iStockphoto
Space may be the final frontier, but astronomers have a long way to go before they ever master it. In a remarkable new discovery, scientists have detected ...
NASA has announced a call for Lunar Surface Instrument and Technology Payloads that will fly to the Moon on commercial lunar landers as early as next year or ...
With the consequences of human activities pushing Earth into a sixth mass extinction, a team of biologists have calculated that plant and animal species are ...
Thanks to humans, arguably the worst species on the planet, we're currently in the middle of a mass extinction event that threatens much of Earth's biodiversity.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - A new study warns that humans are now driving mammals to extinction at rates much faster than Earth's species may be able to recover ...
The study, published today in Nature Communications, is one of the first to explain how a parent's genetic markers have a direct impact on their children.
Stanford researchers found that people who underwent a virtual reality experience, called “Becoming Homeless,” were more empathetic toward the homeless.
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) -Greenpeace's historic ship, the Arctic Sunrise, which travels around the globe studying the nature of the world's oceans and the ...
It has been a long journey for the Ocean Cleanup Project, but after years of development and a 1300-plus-mile trip through the open water, its first system is now ...
An ambitious project known as Ocean Cleanup has set out to the Great Pacific Garbage Patch with the goal of sweeping up plastic debris, and the mission has ...
There is a heavy toll, levied at unpredictable intervals upon those brave enough to travel uncommon roads, so that all of humanity might benefit from the journey.
Ever wondered what it would be like to see the Earth from the Moon? Join Bob King as he explores this from the perspective of the Apollo 17 astronauts.
Karl Wolfe became the second UFO whistleblower to die within days - after US Army Command Sergeant Major Robert Dean, who claimed he saw evidence of ...
Canada just became the first industrialized nation to legalize recreational cannabis. Too bad Carl Sagan — astronomer, cosmologist, TV star and low-key stoner ...
The humble wormhole is a science fiction perennial, often depicted as looping tunnels beyond gaping whirlpools of light. In reality, nobody has much of an idea ...
A RUDN physicist demonstrated how to describe the shape of any symmetrical wormhole—a black hole that theoretically can be a kind of a portal between any ...
A physicist demonstrated how to describe the shape of any symmetrical wormhole - a black hole that theoretically can be a kind of a portal between any two ...
Modern concepts of the universe provide for the existence of wormholes—unusual curvatures in space and time. Physicists imagine a wormhole as a black hole ...
An extremely rare mineral that only forms when rocks from space slam into the earth's crust with immense pressure has been found in Western Australia, the ...
Cataclysmic mergers of the superdense stellar corpses known as neutron stars may be common across the cosmos, a new study suggests. Last October, an ...
A distant relative to GW170817, the first source identified to emit gravitational waves and light, has been discovered. Reported in the journal Nature ...
According to new research, an object named GRB150101B -- first reported as a gamma-ray burst in 2015 -- shares remarkable similarities with GW170817, the ...
On October 16, 2017, an international group of astronomers and physicists excitedly reported the first simultaneous detection of light and gravitational waves ...
Vast explosions that throwing out gold, platinum and many of the world's most precious elements could regularly be happening throughout the universe, a NASA ...
A team of researchers from across Europe and Israel has found evidence of dogs traveling with people from the Near East to Europe during the Neolithic. In their ...
The first farmers of Europe didn't leave anything to chance. When they migrated west from the Near East, beginning about 10,000 years ago, they brought ...
The world's first farmers were already reliant on their 'wolf-like' dogs who followed them into Europe and Asia 9,000 years ago, according to a new DNA study.
Commentary: Even if you haven't shared your DNA with a genealogy website, chances are you're identifiable now. (Spoiler: Your third cousin sold you out).
Vast explosions, throwing out gold, platinum and many of the world's most precious elements, could be happening throughout the universe. Nasa scientists have ...
One nuclear specialist argued that the Japanese government's reported plan "cannot be considered an action without risk to the marine environment and human ...
A map of Fukushima radiation spreading and contaminating the Pacific Ocean is a fake. How bad was the radioactive fallout from the nuclear disaster in Japan?
WASHINGTON — The last mission needed to complete Iridium Communications' second-generation satellite constellation is scheduled for Dec. 30, Iridium CEO ...
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Violent outbursts of seething gas from young red dwarfs may make conditions uninhabitable on fledgling planets. In this artist's rendering, an active, young red dwarf (right) is stripping the atmosphere from an orbiting planet (left). ASU astronomers have found that flares from the youngest red dwarfs they surveyed -- approximately 40 million years old -- are 100 to 1000 times more energetic than when the stars are older. They also detected one of the most intense stellar flares ever observed in ultraviolet light -- more energetic than the most powerful flare ever recorded from our Sun. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Player (STScI)
Arizona State University astronomers have spotted a red dwarf star in the midst of a violent 'superflare' far more powerful than any event ever observed from our ...
The word "HAZMAT" describes substances that pose a risk to the environment, or even to life itself. Imagine the term being applied to entire planets, where ...
To demonstrate that DEFT can be applied to a variety of small datasets, CSHL scientists used it to analyze data from the CMS Higgs Boson detector. Of 60 particle impressions, DEFT estimated that up to six were from real events. (Pictured: A 3D perspective of a Higgs Boson event recorded in 2012. Impressions are characterized by green towers and red lines.) Credit: McCauley, T; Taylor, L; CERN
Big Data is all the rage today, but Small Data matters too! Drawing reliable conclusions from small datasets, like those from clinical trials for rare diseases or in ...
Reports of respiratory issues and fish kills in Indian River County and Brevard County have sparked the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to ...
Chemical structure of poly(P3HT)--(PSt) and a diagram of Plausible hole transporting paths in P3HT--PSt. Credit: Figure adapted with permission from the front cover of 18/2018, John Wiley and Sons
Researchers from the Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) have sped up ...
After releases with Heron Preston and Mercer Amsterdam, NASA is continuing its collaborative streak with a new limited-edition watch with Anicorn. For this ...
Swedish company, Ovzon, has entered into an agreement with SpaceX for launch of Ovzon's first GEO satellite. The launch is expected to take place no earlier ...
