We Now Know What Caused the Weird Erruptions Rosetta's Comet
As the Rosetta mission nears the end, ESA researchers are trying to tie up the loose ends of what they’ve learned from their trip to the comet.
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As the Rosetta mission nears the end, ESA researchers are trying to tie up the loose ends of what they’ve learned from their trip to the comet.
The firm will use it to design and grow new seeds and plants, but there are key restrictions on its use to prevent Monsanto from abusing this revolutionary new technology.
Now pay close attention...
The prehistoric mummy sounded like a chain smoker, apparently.
We meet the family who have cryogenically frozen their child in the hopes she may live again once more, and talk to the company behind the controversial process.
Probably not a piece of news you ever hoped to see.
Rats in tiny trousers – need we say more?
In just seven days, the Rosetta spacecraft will smash into Comet 67P. A new visualisation shows how it’ll go down.
They now join an elite group of animals that exhibit communications once thought exclusive to humans.
Atmospheric oxygen levels have dropped by 0.7 per cent over the past 800,000 years, and while scientists aren’t sure why, they’re rather excited about it.
Indigenous Australians and Papuans are descended directly from the first people to inhabit the continent some 50,000 years ago.
Siberia's wilds have been ferociously ablaze all summer, and nobody seems to be noticing.
The scroll has been untouched for forty years and only now do we now what is written inside.
European researchers have developed a solar simulator that replicates the heat and light of the sun’s radiation — and then some. The system has the equivalent power of over 20,000 suns. Read more >>
Tiny silicone beads assemble patterns on water, holding their shape for as long as sound passes through them.
And the answer doesn’t imply the immediate destruction of humanity.
