NASA's Solar Observatory Freaked Out But It's Not Because of the Apocalypse
After more than a week offline, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory is back. But just what caused it to glitch in the first place?
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After more than a week offline, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory is back. But just what caused it to glitch in the first place?
Whoa, dude, this polystyrene sphere is, like, totally levitating on sound waves. Read More >>
Whenever I hear a Serious Academic opine that his Great Institution of Higher Learning is being sullied by the frivolities of Common Folk, I can’t help but roll my eyes.
A groundbreaking new experiment shows that brain-machine interfaces, when used in conjunction with exoskeletons and virtual reality, can trigger partial recovery in patients recovering from spinal cord injuries.
If you’re counting on technology to radically extend your lifespan, you’ll want to pay close attention to what’s happening with the Greenland shark.
This crazy fool built himself a 360-degree swing as tall as his house. Read More >>
In October, the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars 2016 mission will land the Schiaparelli rover on the Red Planet. Here’s why researchers chose this particular area.
@USGS_Seismic is usually the best place for news and updates about earthquakes and other seismic activity. The other day, however, things changed, and they posted a GIF of entangled snakes.
It’s a veritable certainty that North America’s first people arrived via the Bering Land Bridge, but less certainty exists about how and where they migrated from there.
How did this guy manage to scale a glass building, besides relying on the help of being ridiculously in shape and the power of luck? It comes down to suction.
Researchers just confirmed that those canyons are flowing with liquid methane.
Also, the bones used to create the fakes came from a single orangutan specimen and at least two human skulls.
These spells could be benign, such as a love spell, or they could have evil intent, such as wishing a particular misfortune upon an enemy or rival.
That’s according to a new military history paper, which reveals for the first time just how close humanity came to annihilating itself because of space weather.
Kurzgesagt goes deep on genetic engineering in its latest animation explainer.
Since 1992 scientists have watched it rise at a steady 3 millimetres per year. Now, after more than twenty years of head-scratching, we finally have an explanation.
