Another Previously Undiscovered Asteroid Just Buzzed Past Earth for the Second Time in Two Weeks
What have we done to anger you, space gods?
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What have we done to anger you, space gods?
Terzan 5 could help us piece together our cosmic origin story.
Life on Mars 67P?
Despite the name “canned air”, computer duster isn’t oxygen at all. Put the stuff in boiling water and you get quite the reaction. See more >>
An investigation of the remarkably well preserved HMS Tarpon shows it didn’t go down without a fight.
Add this to the growing list of reasons to never go outside again.
Researchers have taken a significant step forward in the effort to develop a vaccine against the bacteria responsible for strep throat, toxic shock syndrome, and flesh-eating disease.
The breakthrough could lead to scale-powered pacemakers. Aquaman would be pleased.
Isabelle Dinoire passed away in April but the hospital has only just announced her death today.
Live-giving carbon likely came from smashing into a Mercury-like planet over four billion years ago.
Hordes of lionfish have been roaming the Atlantic for several decades now, and their voracious appetite—and lack of natural predators—has seriously upset the ecological balance of those waters.
The orbiter’s high-resolution camera has found the once-lost Philae wedged into a dark crack on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Droughts in the US and Iran will see global availability of the nuts dwindle.
Watch this powerful laser shining into a piece of aluminium foil suspended in a vacuum and, fascinatingly, you’ll see the foil starting to sway back and forth from the ultra light beam. Read more >>
Something to ponder when you’re momentarily hanging in free fall on your favourite coaster.
The claret-ified beams are designed to help better spot tumours in the human body.
