Venus Aerospace conducted its first powered flight last month, reaching Mach 0.9 with a drone.
The 8-foot-long vehicle was dropped from an Aero L-29 Delfín...]]>
The conclusion of the sexual revolution is about to be written.
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Solar eclipses are the result of a pleasant astronomical coincidence. Although the Sun's diameter is almost 400 times that of the Moon's, the Sun is also almost 400...]]>
The genetic modification, or genetic engineering (GE), of plants and animals by selection and breeding has been practiced by humans for more than 10,000...]]>
Climate change is messing with time itself.
We live in a world where people attempt to settle differences with insane wars and acts of terror. We foul our nest with an array of pollutants....]]>
Imagine the splendor of the night sky, and consider. Even with light pollution diminishing the clarity of the heavens in most of our cities, there is still...]]>
When a long-term memory forms, some brain cells experience a rush of electrical activity so strong that it snaps their DNA. Then, an inflammatory response kicks in,...]]>
In new research, scientists tried to get to the bottom of one of life's most pressing questions: how do sweet,...]]>
The Artemis 3 astronauts will be the first to walk on the surface of the Moon in more than 50 years, unlocking a new era of lunar exploration. NASA has chosen just the...]]>
Christopher Nolan's Oscar-winning biopic Oppenheimer has reignited public interest in the historic race to develop atomic weapons.
Yet, while the...]]>
Physicists have been searching for gravitons, the hypothetical particles thought to carry gravity, for decades. These have never been detected in space, but...]]>
U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), the organization that administers America's Spec Ops forces, says it will soon start clinical trials of an...]]>
Among the many things the coronavirus pandemic has affected, our work-life balance has also taken a hit. Most people are simultaneously working from home while doing...]]>
A mother in her mid-20s begins to have recurring thoughts of physically harming her baby. These thoughts make no sense to her. She deeply loves her baby,...]]>
In some large part, science is powerful not because of ideas but because of how it treats ideas. Science asks, prove it. The distinction is what...]]>
Have you ever smelled something so familiar that it felt like you were transported back through time into one of your earlier memories? Have freshly baked...]]>
In 1958, the Smithsonian Institution received a plain paper package in the mail. The only hint of its contents was the insurance on the brown carton,...]]>
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New UCLA research indicates that lost memories can be restored. The findings offer some hope for patients in the early stages of Alzheimerâ??s disease.
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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a rock-powder sample...]]> But we are not quite at the end of time yet! Itâ??s only the end of the week, which means itâ??s time for another Ask Ethan, and to give...]]> Danish scientists have solved the quantum mechanics problem that has been teasing them since the 1930s: how to calculate real life behaviour of atoms. The...]]> As we seek out planets orbiting stars inside their habitable zones, astronomical techniques are becoming so sophisticated that, one day, we may be able to probe the...]]> Fay-Wei Li stepped out of his car and looked around. There was not much to see aside from an old wooden fence and a soggy ditch strewn with roadside detritus. Could this...]]> University of Wyoming researchers have gained further insight into how tardigrades survive extreme conditions and shown that proteins from the microscopic creatures...]]> The couple that drinks together might live longer together, too, says a University of Michigan researcher. In a recent study published in The Gerontologist, Blood is a remarkable material: it must remain fluid inside blood vessels, yet clot as quickly as possible outside them, to stop bleeding. The chemical cascade that makes this...]]> Researchers from Trinity have recovered remarkably preserved microbiomes from two teeth dating back 4,000 years, found in an Irish limestone cave. Genetic analyses of...]]>