This Distant Spiral Galaxy Looks Very Familiar
This is what observers in a distant galaxy would see if they could look at the Milky Way through a powerful space telescope. Read More >>
This is what observers in a distant galaxy would see if they could look at the Milky Way through a powerful space telescope. Read More >>
The New Horizons spacecraft will start the busiest phase of its flight tomorrow as it makes its closest approach to Pluto, and you can watch from home.
We might get to watch unmanned aerial vehicles climbing the Swiss Alps to drop emergency medical supplies long before Amazon gets round to using them for deliveries.
The quest for immortality has a long history in futurist circles. What if you could jump from body to body, complete with the same thoughts, the same memories, the same personality as before?
At least, that’s what Boeing’s recently approved patent application with the US Patent and Trademark Office would suggest.
When you think ‘Sahara desert’ your mind’s eye probably conjures images of tawny, windswept dunes stretching monotonously into the horizon. But satellites have a way of giving us a strikingly different, often much more interesting view of our world. Read More >>
In the immortal words of Alice Cooper, school's out for summer. The problem is that means kids aren't being occupied for most of the day, so what do you do? Try buying some of these.
The spacecraft travelled 3 billion miles in nine and a half years. That’s about a million miles a day for almost ten years. How the heck did we do it?
It will grow 91,000 kilos of kale, rocket and romaine lettuce per year when it’s finished.
Now, over thirty years later, geologists have discovered what caused a series of microquakes in Pozzuoli in 1982: A fibre-reinforced, concrete-like rock, formed in the depths of the nearby supervolcano Campi Flegrei.
You see a man trying to break into your neighbour's car, but instead of phoning 999 you start live-streaming it instead.
Yesterday, we got our first peek at geologic features on the dwarf planet’s surface. And today, New Horizons beamed back the best image to date of four mysterious dark splotches near Pluto’s south pole. Read More >>
Even the cold-hearted people in the world can appreciate this type of nostalgia.
Self-destructing mosquitoes are maybe possibly my favourite invention of the century.
The Solar Impulse 2 trucked so hard on its record breaking, nonstop flight from Japan to Hawaii, it seems to have overheated its lithium ion batteries.
In my day we didn’t need Google to help us see melting dog faces with six eyes that are actually snails with centipedes crawling on their shells. We did it the old-fashioned way.
