Science News
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Colony ship to nearest star only needs crew of 100 to survive
AN INITIAL crew of 98 people might be all that is neede...Read more
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Was That Script Written By A Human Or An AI?
If you spent time on social media today, you probably c...Read more
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Scientists Have Caught Bacteria “Fishing” For DNA From Their Dead Friends
Bacteria are slippery little suckers. They evolve rapid...Read more
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NASA’s InSight Mars Lander Launches to Probe Red Planet’s Deep Interior
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — NASA’s latest...Read more
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Diamonds Found in a Meteorite Once Belonged to a Lost Planet in Our Solar System
Scientists have discovered that tiny diamonds found ins...Read more
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13,000-year-old human footprints found off Canada’s Pacific coast
Human footprints found off Canada’s Pacific coast...Read more
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The moon formed inside a vaporized Earth synestia
A new explanation for the Moon’s origin has it fo...Read more
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Metalens combined with an artificial muscle
Inspired by the human eye, researchers at the Harvard J...Read more
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Is the Out of Africa Theory Out?
All the ancestors of contemporary Europeans apparently ...Read more
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NASA Budget Proposal Plans End of NASA Funding of ISS
WASHINGTON — NASA’s fiscal year 2019 budget proposal wi...Read more
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Deposition rates of viruses and bacteria above the atmospheric boundary layer
“Every day, more than 800 million viruses are deposited...Read more
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Sharp stones found in India signal surprisingly early toolmaking advances
Stone-tool makers in what’s now India redesigned their ...Read more
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After More Than 100 Years, Wild Wolves Are Returning to Belgium
It’s not hard to find worrying stories about the ...Read more
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Star Trek Discovery Feels Increasingly More Comfortable In a Universe of Killers
In many ways, Star Trek: Discovery suffers most of all ...Read more
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Our Bodies Could Be Treating a Western Diet Like It Was a Dangerous Infection
The immune system responds to a fast food diet in much ...Read more
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Bacteria Living in Our Gut Are Hijacking And Controlling Our Genes
Your gut microflora isn’t just sitting silently w...Read more
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The World Needs More Scientists: How We Can Train Millions in Virtual Labs
California wild fires, melting arctic ice caps, and rec...Read more
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The Most Effective Way to Lose Weight With Minimal Effort, According to Science
o you want to lose a few kilograms. You’ve h...Read more
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NASA’s $1 Billion Probe Just Sent Back Mind-Meltingly Gorgeous New Images of Jupiter
NASA’s $US1 billion Juno spacecraft completed its...Read more
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Ancient Beringians: 11,500-Year-Old Genome Reveals Previously Unknown Native American Population
Genetic analysis of DNA from a female infant found at t...Read more
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I hate to break it to you, but your bath towel is dirty !
I hate to break it to you, but your bath towel is dirty...Read more
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First Blue Moon Total Lunar Eclipse in 150 Years Coming This Month
The first eclipse of 2018 will be a lunar one that come...Read more
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Central Black Holes Control Star Formation in Massive Galaxies
Supermassive black holes, with masses more than a milli...Read more
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Jaguar conservation depends on neighbors’ attitudes
A survey of residents near two major national parks in ...Read more
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2,000-Year-Old Petroglyphs Mapped in Venezuela
Dr. Philip Riris from the Institute of Archaeology at U...Read more
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Saturn’s Northern Storms Cause Disturbances in Its ‘Heartbeat’
Despite their considerable differences, the equatorial ...Read more
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Ten people who mattered this year.
When David Liu was an undergraduate student 25 years ag...Read more
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Relativity & The Equivalence of Reference Frames
The German physicist Albert Einstein needed complex equ...Read more
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Rocket launches and space missions in 2018
Next year is already overflowing with exciting missions...Read more
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Weekly fish consumption linked to better sleep, higher IQ
Children who eat fish at least once a week sleep better...Read more
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How odors are turned into long-term memories
The neuroscientists Dr Christina Strauch and Prof Dr De...Read more
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Interstellar object may hold ‘alien’ water
The first known interstellar asteroid may hold water fr...Read more
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Giant Bubbles on Red Giant Star’s Surface
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have for t...Read more
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Scientists Have Discovered a Brand New Species of Giant Octopus Hiding in Plain Sight
Octopuses are masters of camouflage, but have you ever ...Read more
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Prehistoric bling? Aesthetics crucial factor in development of earliest copper alloys
While studies of ancient gold metallurgy and the...Read more
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Drug Could Permanently Repair Brain Damage in Stroke Victims
Researchers from the University of Manchester have deve...Read more
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Abiogenesis: Life May Have Evolved From Non-Living Matter With Relative Ease
In the beginning Where did life come from? Following th...Read more
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ALMA Uncovers Secrets of Giant Space Blob
An international team using ALMA, along with ESO’s Very...Read more
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Greenland ice loss 40 trillion pounds bigger than thought
Greenland is losing about 40 trillion pounds more ice a...Read more
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Almost all living people outside of Africa trace back to a single migration more than 50,000 years ago
Australian Aborigines have long been cast as a people a...Read more
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Ancient Skeleton Discovered on Antikythera Shipwreck
An international research team discovered a human skele...Read more
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World’s hardiest animal has evolved radiation shield for its DNA
They are the toughest known animals on Earth and now th...Read more
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Pigeons have quite a way with words: Otago research
Pigeons can learn to distinguish real words from non-wo...Read more
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Families of plausible solutions to the puzzle of Boyajian’s star
Good explanations for the unusual light curve of Boyaji...Read more
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Edmonton scientists study some of Earth’s oldest rock
Edmonton scientists hope the discovery of some of world...Read more