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Results from one of the largest datasets ever produced by a citizen science ham radio experiment have confirmed that eclipses contribute towards the temporary thinning of the ionosphere.
This Saturday, NASA will test a new method that could restore the drill’s critical jackhammering capability, and by consequence, the rover’s ability to analyse Martian rock samples.
Things are pretty gross out there in nature.
Astronomers have realised that the motions of the objects past Neptune imply the existence of the ninth planet we deserve.
We tend to associate industrial pollution with the modern era, but human civilisations have been contaminating the planet for thousands of years.
Several rocks, including one measuring two feet wide, have already fallen— but the situation could get even worse.
The first urban case of Ebola was recently confirmed in Mbandaka, a city in the northwestern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo with 1.2 million residents.
It's using a horrendous amount of power - and the world needs to take notice.
Green blood may be weird, but it could unlock secrets to powerful new medicines.
Unlike humans, chimps usually sleep in any one bed for a single night, abandoning it the next morning.
It’s worth appreciating that it takes a lot of effort to keep together the things that, well, keep you together.
A new graphic novel coming next year will be the perfect way to improve what you know about one of history’s greatest theoretical physicists.
This supermassive black hole is the size of about 20 billion suns, and is the fastest-growing and the brightest-glowing black hole ever detected.
FRStat, a program that puts key statistical tools into the hands of fingerprint analysts, is a positive step toward eliminating wrongful convictions resulting from problems with forensic evidence.
A distant galaxy has been found to contain the universe’s oldest oxygen yet.
The actual number of animals killed on the road could be up to six times greater than standard estimates, according to a new study.
