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These kinds of tests are important for the way they can rule out alternative theories of gravity that look like general relativity but differ for yet-to-be-explored physical realms.
Eventually this tiny robot could be used as a scout in search and rescue operations, or for investigating dangerous or hard-to-reach environments.
It’s common knowledge that water is an effective tool for dousing a flame, but did you know that you can use water to start a fire too?
Uranus is truly a mystery. Will humans finally take up the task to explore it?
Photographing wildlife takes a special combination of patience and talent. Birds make the task even more difficult.
A US National Science and Technology Council report recognises that near-Earth objects have the potential to be, scientifically speaking, really, really bad.
Analysing old books doesn’t sound like particularly dangerous work, unless those books happen to be covered in deadly arsenic.
Thank you, Juno spacecraft, forreminding us of the beauty that exists within our tumultuous Solar System.
As sobering as the findings are, the researcher believes these sort of studies can be the start of a larger conversation.
Its surprisingly pristine condition suggests an alternative cause of death.
How can spacecraft meant to study and take advantage of asteroid resources up close survive the environments of their utterly unearthly hosts?
Analysis estimates that the nearly 1,100-degree-Celsius planet is somewhere between two and 17 times the mass of Jupiter, and is about 5.4 million years old.
This new species of sheet-weaving spider is most likely not dangerous to humans - in fact, it’s only about 2 millimetres long.
The findings are especially relevant in light of an upcoming US law that will standardise how products containing GMOs should be labelled.
A recent paper has found that opioids can restore a narcoleptic person’s ability to produce a neurotransmitter crucial to regulating sleep, which could also help scientists develop anti-addiction treatments.
Rivers in cities can easily fill with heaps full of rubbish, lost things, and industrial waste. But if the city has been around for a while, all of that rubbish can tell an incredible story.
