Science Pulse
Asteroid to rocket past Earth in one of closest encounters...
NASA said that the asteroid, known as 2023 BU, will pass close to Earth on Thursday night. This will be a near miss, according to...
Prairie voles can find partners just fine without the ‘love...
Researchers knocked out prairie voles’ oxytocin detection system. They weren’t expecting what happened next.
Mysterious marks on Ice Age cave art may have been a form...
Hunter-gatherers during the Ice Age may have recorded when prey mated and gave birth, suggesting that these people possessed complex...
Birds that dive may be at greater risk of extinction
For birds, a diving lifestyle seems irreversible, evolutionarily speaking. The inflexibility possibly increases diving birds’ chances...
Fossils suggest early primates lived in a once-swampy Arctic
Teeth and jawbones found on Ellesmere Island, Canada, suggest that two early primate species migrated there 52 million years ago.
A bird with a T. rex head may help reveal how dinosaurs...
The 120-million-year-old Cratonavis zhui, newly discovered in China, had a head like a theropod and body like a modern bird.
SpaceX fuels up fully stacked Starship vehicle for 1st...
SpaceX fueled up a fully stacked Starship for the first time ever on Monday (Jan. 23), notching a huge milestone on the path toward...
Hidden, never-before-seen penguin colony spotted from space
Satellite photos showing poop stains in the West Antarctic snow and ice have revealed a previously unknown breeding colony of emperor...
Radio signal from 9 billion light-years away from Earth...
A radio signal from 9 billion light years away from Earth has been captured in a record-breaking recording, reports said this week.
How to stop your cell phone from dying so fast
Both iPhones and Android phones have various setting options to avoid your phone's battery being completely drained when you're far...
More than 3 billion stars, galaxies are captured in a massive...
Astronomers released a massive survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset reportedly contains a staggering 3.32...
Surprise magma chamber found under Mediterranean Sea volcano...
A group of international scientists found a previously unknown and potentially hazardous magma chamber beneath the underwater volcano...
Scientists divert lightning strikes using lasers
A group of international scientists say they were successful in diverting lightning bolts using laser technology for the first time...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope records black hole contorting...
NASA announced that astronomers had used the Hubble Space Telescope to record a star's final moments as it was violently ripped apart...
NASA’s Webb uncovers star formation in cluster's 'dusty...
New findings from the James Webb Space Telescope are shedding light on star formation in a dynamic cluster located in a dwarf galaxy...
NASA funding ideas for a space seaplane, other innovations
NASA is funding a concept for a space seaplane that could investigate the chemistry Titan among other innovations, with recent awards...
Are Quantum Computers about to Break Online Privacy?
A new algorithm is probably not efficient enough to crack current encryption keys—but that’s no reason for complacency, researchers...
Rare earth mining may be key to our renewable energy future....
We take you inside Mountain Pass, the only rare earth mine in the United States.
Why it’s easier to catch a cold, the flu or COVID in the...
Low humidity protects viruses and cold temperatures may blunt some immune responses, making viral infections like colds, flu and COVID-19...
Double Disaster: Wildfires Followed by Extreme Rainfall...
These events can cause devastating landslides and flash floods
