NASA is Studying How to Replace Mirrors in its Telescopes With Glitter
The sparkly sprinkles can be used as tiny little mirrors, in place of the huge, expensive ones usually used in telescopes.
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The sparkly sprinkles can be used as tiny little mirrors, in place of the huge, expensive ones usually used in telescopes.
This giant orb will be someone's home for a year. Italian explorer Alex Bellini will inhabit the carefully engineered craft while riding and living on icebergs in Greenland, in an attempt to witness climate change first hand. Read more >
Watch this video to see the slight mishap that caused Elon Musk's Falcon X craft to crash while trying to land on a drone barge this Tuesday.
It may seem counter productive, but strategic plucking can help to trigger regeneration of malfunctioning hair follicles.
Looking up to find the way is so 2014. The future is a technique that researchers refer to as 'human cruise control.'
The expedition involves the Imperial College London and University of Texas as will explore the crater's "peak ring".
SCIpher churns out reams of text, filled with randomly generated computer-science buzzwords, laced with a secret input message.
Not intentionally, of course: the Ariel-1 satellite was minding its own business when events on the other side of the world bought its journey to a dramatic end...
A team of cosmologists is creating an enormous map of how dark matter is distributed across the Universe—and this is the first section to be completed.
A substance used to break oil into smaller droplets is proven to do more harm than good.
If you thought penguins were just cute and adorable, this amazing photo of an Adélie penguin angrily confronting the camera may make you think otherwise. It was captured by Gordon Tait near Casey Station, Antarctica, while shooting a series of time-lapses. [Nat Geo Your Shot]
How do you work out if a fossilised creature originally sank or swam? You create a complex 3D model of its stricture using X-rays is how. As has been done with the 65-million-year-old ammonite. Read more >
Stroll around the European Space Agency's operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany, and you'll see more than rocket science. Appearing on the sides of buildings is a series of artworks inspired by '80s arcade games. See more of the works >
An almost entirely intact fossil of Llallawavis scagliai has led to something amazing discoveries.
In rural Indian dairy villages, access to electricity is intermittent and dairy farmers face the perpetual risk of losing large batches of their product. Now new thermal battery tech offers a fascinating solution.
Many people have strong opinions about genetically modified plants, also known as genetically modified organisms or GMOs. But sometimes there’s confusion around what it means to be a GMO.
