Baby Solar System Sprouts Galaxy-Like Arms
The disk exhibits a spiral structure — a feature that could solve a lingering mystery about how planets start to form.
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The disk exhibits a spiral structure — a feature that could solve a lingering mystery about how planets start to form.
At 11:30 BST today, a spacecraft weighing over 2,000 kilograms with the wingspan of a Boeing 747 crashed gently into a comet’s surface, following 13 hours of free-fall. These, my friends, are the last, fleeting glimpses of Comet 67P that Rosetta managed to capture before its instruments went dead. See more >>
The critter's political alignment is currently unknown.
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Medtronic’s MiniMed 670G, a device that monitors a diabetic’s sugar levels, and then automatically injects the required dose of insulin.
The dams and reservoirs we use to harness ‘clean’ hydroelectric power and irrigate our crops apparently emit carbon. A lot of it.
Breakthrough in polymer tech creates materials that transform without outside forces.
The doctor had apparently been administering the bogus homemade medicines for over a decade.
Even footballers in the Premier League would struggle.
Typhoons are generally associated with mass destruction, but a Japanese engineer has developed a wind turbine that can harness the tremendous power of these storms and turn it into useful energy.
"I guess it’s only when you actually speak directly to the scientists [...] that you realise just how bad it’s getting."
But details about how people will actually survive up there remain sketchy.
An analysis involving nearly 800 pregnant women shows there may be some truth to anecdotal claims about pre-natal nausea.
While Mercury’s has no plate tectonics in the terrestrial sense, crustal shrinking still qualifies as tectonic activity. It could even trigger Mercury-quakes.
These biological building blocks are millions of years older than the oldest DNA ever found, highlighting the possibility of recovering ancient proteins from extinct animals.
A new reproductive technique in which a baby is produced with the genetic material from three distinct parents has yielded its first human.
Flushing Mercury down the toilet is downright spectacular. Read More >>
