The Pillars of Creation Will Disappear in a Cosmic Blink
New estimations give the incredible heavenly bodies a relatively short life span, before they are no more.
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New estimations give the incredible heavenly bodies a relatively short life span, before they are no more.
How does it pull off such a violent chemical reaction without, well, damaging its insides?
Changing the molecular form of non-O types could drastically improve the blood donation system.
Yesterday, NASA’s Messenger space probe slammed into the surface of Mercury at upwards of 8,000 mph. This is its parting message: an image of the planet’s surface captured shortly before it struck down. Read more >>
Research shows for the first time just how crucial touch sensors are in the night fliers’ souped-up webbed appendages.
Scientists at Brunel University London have developed a system that uses the sensor to help Parkinson's patients that suffer from muscle freezing.
You’ve probably seen those experiments where scientists are able to levitate foam balls, or tiny drops of water, using nothing but ultrasonic sound waves. It’s utterly mesmerising to watch something just float in mid-air, but magnitudes cooler when filmed with a camera recording at 20,000 frames per second. See more >>
Researchers think they might have cracked a qubit conundrum.
Can earthquakes ever be predicted? This question is timely after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Nepal recently. If authorities had more warning that the earthquake was coming, they may have been able to save more lives.
Not only did maths ruin your day at school, it's been secretly sabotaging your gaming experience for decades.
At Blood Falls, Antarctica, deep red iron-rich water oozes out of a glacier. It’s dramatic and unmissable on its own, but Blood Falls has always hinted at some greater hidden thing: a vast subterranean network of briny waters, which scientists have just started to map. Read more >>
Read on to find out what happened when E O Wilson and Sean Carroll — two giants in their field — sat down to discuss the future of our globe.
The Flood Theory is full of holes, but Christians and secularists alike have known this since before Darwin wrote a word about evolution.
Researchers at University College London put rechargeable cells through some extremes to test these batteries' limits.
Nikon’s Small World in Motion Competition rounds up the best microscopic videos from scientists across the world. The results are strange but beautiful.
When gas erupts out of the Sun, it almost look as though it has an enormous mountain range made of fire. Read More >>
