Science Pulse
Order Up: High School Students Compete to Launch Their...
On Monday, Feb. 26, visitors to the Integrated Engineering Services Building at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia,...
A teeny device can measure subtle shifts in Earth’s gravitational...
No bigger than a grain of rice, the heart of the instrument is the latest entrant in the quest to build ever tinier gravity-measuring...
An extinct sofa-sized turtle may have lived alongside humans
Peltocephalus maturin was one of the biggest turtles ever, but unlike similarly sized prehistoric freshwater turtles, it lived thousands...
50 years ago, superconductors were warming up
Superconducting temperatures have risen by about 250 degrees since the 1970s, but are still too cold to enable practical technologies.
Long COVID brain fog may be due to damaged blood vessels...
MRI scans of long COVID patients with brain fog suggest that the blood brain barrier may be leaky.
‘Space: The Longest Goodbye’ explores astronauts’ mental...
The documentary follows NASA astronauts and the psychologists helping them prepare for future long-distance space trips to the moon...
Large monarch caterpillars are not immune to the poisonous...
Instead of nipping milkweed to drain the plants’ defensive sap, older monarch caterpillars may seek the toxic sap. Lab larvae guzzled...
Here’s why pain might last after persistent urinary tract...
Experiments in mice reveal that the immune response to a UTI spurs nerve growth in the bladder and lowers the pain threshold.
The desert planet in ‘Dune’ is plausible, according to...
Humans could live on the fictional planet Arrakis from Dune but (thankfully) no giant sandworms would menace them.
The Future of War: AI and Its Impact on Military Strategies
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been making rapid strides in recent years, and its influence on the world is becoming increasingly...
UN Official Urges Human-Centered AI Development at Euro-Asian...
At the recent Euro-Asian IT forum, Cosmas Zavazava, Director of the Telecommunication Development Bureau at the UN's International...
This Biggest Star Can Take Over Entire Solar System | Largest...
The biggest star in the universe that could take over the entire solar system! Get ready to learn about this massive star and its...
An asteroid may have exploded over Antarctica about 2.5...
Tiny spherules of rock found in Antarctic ice may point to the oldest known “airburst,” or midair disintegration of an incoming asteroid.
The smallest known molecular knot consists of just 54 atoms.
Chemists are still trying to figure out why this combination of gold, phosphorus, oxygen and carbon atoms resulted in a molecular...
Elon Musk's Neuralink Implants First Chip in Human Brain,...
Elon Musk's Neuralink has taken a major step towards its goal of creating a brain-computer interface (BCI) by implanting its first...
Belgium signs Artemis Accords for responsible moon exploration
Belgium signed the Artemis Accords on Tuesday (Jan. 23), becoming the 34th nation to become part of the moon-exploration framework.
Vampire black hole is a 'cosmic particle accelerator' that...
A distant microquasar, composed of a black hole feeding on a companion star, has jets that create shockwaves. These waves could accelerate...
Pentagon moves to declassify some secret space programs...
Some officials at the Pentagon have been calling for such a new classification policy for years.
Chinese astronauts check out newly delivered space station...
Astronauts aboard China's Tiangong space station have entered the newly arrived Tianzhou 7 cargo spacecraft to begin sorting and checking...
Elon Musk's Neuralink Announces Successful Brain-Computer...
Elon Musk's Neuralink, the neurotechnology startup making waves, has achieved a significant milestone – the successful testing of...
