Peggy Whitson, the 58-year-old NASA astronaut and the most experienced space flier of the United States, has retired from the American space agency. She announced her retirement on June 15, 2018. Whitson has spent 665 days in space, and holds the US record for most cumulative time in space. With 10 spacewalks totaling 60 hours […]
Russia is currently working on a new, laser cannon that will evaporate harmful space junk orbiting the Earth. According to Sputnik News, scientists at the Scientific and Industrial Corporation ‘Precision Instrument Systems’ (NPK SPP), a company affiliated with Roscosmos, are trying to develop this new technology for the benefits of the mankind. The new system […]
On Monday, a near complete fossil of a dinosaur was sold for huge $2.36 million to a British private art collector at an auction in Paris. The auction was held by Aguttes Auction House at the Eiffel Tower in Paris. However, many scientists are not happy about this auction. They believe such findings belong to […]
NASA astronomers have discovered a neutron star located about 200,000 light years from Earth. The discovery was made using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. Although astronomers have identified ten similar objects in the past, this is the first time that a neutron star outside Milky Way […]
NASA’s IceCube, a tiny satellite deployed from the International Space Station (ISS) in May 2017, has created the first global map of ice clouds. The ice clouds are considered key variables in climate and weather models. Like other clouds, they also absorb/reflect the Sun’s energy and affect the heat emission from Earth into space. Ice […]
A team of researchers from the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) at DESY and Uppsala University (Sweden) has developed a new technique to heat water from room temperature to 100,000 degrees Celsius in just 75 femtoseconds (75 millionths of a billionth of a second) to produce an exotic state of water. According to scientists, […]
For most of us, mosquitoes are irritating creatures. Their itchy bites, the whiny hum of buzzing wings, ubiquitous presence, and uncanny abilities to sense human presence not only ruin our beautiful evenings in the backyard of our homes but also spoil our sleeps in our bedrooms at night. Most people are not aware of the […]
On Saturday, NASA astronauts and Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took a break from science to organize a small musical concert in space, showing their talent in this field. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev posted a picture of the event on Twitter, showing how the crew played with guitars, flutes and even a […]
More students reported carrying guns in Chicago than in Los Angeles or New York City over the 2007 to 2013 time period, according to a new study carried out by a team of researchers from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. These findings, published in the journal Injury Epidemiology, provide a historical background for […]
Researchers from the University of Otago have identified and named a new species of an ancient baleen whale, which according to researchers, existed more than 27.5 million years ago. The fossils of this prehistoric whale were discovered in 1988 from a fossil-bearing rock unit in the Hakataramea Valley in South Canterbury, New Zealand. The fossils […]
A team of scientists from San Diego is ready to embark on a new journey around the world in upcoming summer season to make new discoveries and find solutions to different global problems. For next few months, these scientists will travel various countries including China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Israel, the UK, The […]
A joint team of researchers from the University of California San Diego (UCSD), Stanford University, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has designed a new type of robotic gripper that is able to grip a wide variety of objects and can lift up to 45 lbs (20 kg). Researchers have designed this gripper by combining […]
Several studies in past years have examined the link between depression and anxiety symptom severity with problematic smartphone use (PSU). However, a new study carried out by researchers at the University of Toledo suggests that individuals with poor emotion regulation skills might be at higher risk of PSU. “The research literature demonstrates associations between both […]
For centuries, scientific community has believed that all of the nitrogen on Earth available to plants comes from the atmosphere. However, scientists at the University of California (UC) Davis in the U.S. have now identified a new source of global nitrogen – the weathering of Earth’s bedrock – which, according to scientists, provides up to […]
A joint team of Russian scientists from Rosatom, the state nuclear energy corporation, and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) claim to have blown up model asteroids measuring less than an inch wide with lasers in an experimental setup. The primary aim of the study was to find out how Earth could be prevented […]
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have succeeded in recreating the “alien environments” in a laboratory setting. According to researchers, they were able to simulate the atmosphere of nine potential alien worlds with the help of distinctive gas mixtures rich in carbon dioxide, hydrogen, water vapors, etc. “We’re really excited to figure out […]
During the last Ice Age when our planet was experiencing extremely chilly conditions and ice sheets in all of Europe and North America were expanding, there was one region on Earth where glaciers were actually shrinking, according to a new study carried out by researchers at the University of Washington (UW). The study, whose findings […]
China is planning to conduct the first launch of its Long March-5B carrier rocket in 2019. A spokesperson for the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) revealed that the carrier rocket will undergo testing this month in preparation for its launch next year. The rocket will carry the core module and experiment modules to China’s […]
For the first time ever, a team of scientists working in Antarctica have successfully captured remarkable evidence of how a minke whale feeds. Recently, these scientists had attached a camera to a minke whale, which captured some wonderful footage of this creature in its feeding areas in Antarctica. The camera attached to the animal is […]
ISRO may build some Igloo-like structures on the surface of the Moon in coming years. The agency is currently working on a plan to create such ‘lunar habitats’ using advanced 3D printers and robots that ISRO hopes to send to the Moon in near future. According to ISRO, these robots and 3D printers will make […]
NASA has confirmed that its $1 billion, SLS Mobile Launcher tower is leaning, although there is currently no need to take any corrective action. The tower has leaned a little toward the North, which is in the direction of the rocket on the launch pad. “NASA’s mobile launcher is structurally sound, built to specifications and […]
A group of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have designed an inflatable, origami robot that can crawl like a snake. The skin of this bot looks like an origami snakeskin, allowing it to slither across the ground. “There has been a lot of research in recent […]
Chinese archeologists have discovered 7,400-year-old rice grains at the Gaomiao relic site, which is located in Yanli village near Hongjiang in central China’s Hunan Province, according to Xinhua News. The finding suggests that ancient people in central China were eating rice more than 7,000 years ago. Archeologists found carbonized rice grains in a stratum that […]
British billionaire Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Galactic, is currently feeling jealous following the successful launch of SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket and wants to “upstage” Elon Musk in near future. “I was a little bit jealous,” Richard Branson told CNN’s Christine Romans on Tuesday. Branson, however, described Falcon Heavy launch as “extraordinary.” Last week, […]
Scientists have finally solved the mystery of northern lights or auroras by directly observing for the first time the scattering of electrons bouncing across the Earth’s magnetosphere. Auroras are the colorful lights that appear over both the Arctic (northern lights) and Antarctic (southern lights). This spectacular light show is considered one of the greatest natural […]
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has launched a global big Earth data project that will be based on cloud service platform and will support research on climate change. CAS aims to establish an open international center for big Earth data through this project. This international center will serve scientists in China as well as […]
Jiayin County in China has restored 813 dinosaur fossils in the past 115 years, according to the research department of Jiayin Shenzhou Dinosaur Museum. Jiayin County, also known as the dinosaur county in China, is located in northeast China’s Yichun City in Heilongjiang Province. According to researchers, hundreds of dinosaur skeletons are buried in Jiayin […]
A team of archeologists has discovered 9,000-year-old wells in central China’s Xiping County in Henan Province. The wells, six in number, are the oldest wells ever found in China, according to Wei Xingtao, deputy head of the provincial archaeological research institute. Earlier, Chinese archeologists believed that that the first wells in China were built along […]
Getting inspiration from human spine, researchers at Columbia University in the U.S. have developed a prototype of a highly efficient, lithium-ion battery that demonstrates remarkable flexibility while providing high energy density and stable storage. The makers of the battery claim their new invention could “greatly advance the commercialization of flexible devices.” This team of engineering […]
A group of 15 cave explorers, including French and Chinese experts, have spotted a rare fish species known as golden-line barbell in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. According to the Xinhua News, the group found this rare fish species during a 9-day exploration tour of caves in Hechi City in Guangxi. The experts explored […]