Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu by NASA are revealing surprising new details about how our Solar System formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. A new chemical analysis challenges previous theories about the asteroid’s birthplace and suggests that Jupiter played an important role in shaping the materials from which Bennu and other ancient objects formed. … Read more
Follow Us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter On October 24, 1946, a V-2 rocket captured the first photograph of Earth from space. While these grainy black and white images may not seem like much today, they were a big deal at the time, because no one had … Read more
Scientists have discovered a distinct subtype of cell in the prostate and it could help solve the mystery of why the gland increases in size with age. This natural phenomenon is called benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and tends to occur in a single region of the prostate. But scientists still don’t understand why. Now, researchers … Read more
Cephalopods like squid may be the closest thing to an extraterrestrial intelligence we’ve ever known, with a diverse evolutionary lineage from a completely different world beneath the waves. However, despite our uniquely developed brains and bodies, we are all works in progress through a common process. Humans and other animals constantly undergo ephemeral and reversible … Read more
Investigadores de la Universidad de Vermont han descubierto un patrón sorprendente en el lenguaje humano que desafía una teoría científica ampliamente aceptada durante más de 70 años. Sus hallazgos sugieren que el significado de las palabras está determinado por algo más fundamental que la emoción: nuestra comprensión del poder, el peligro y el orden. El … Read more
Follow Us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter SpaceX launched its new batch of Starlink broadband internet satellites today (October 23) from the coast of California. The spacecraft, Starlink Group 15-15, was stacked 27 high inside the payload fairing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which lifted off … Read more
People who lived in Europe more than 30,000 years ago were more connected than scientists believed. A team led by the University of Vienna found new genetic evidence of contact between eastern and western groups of the Gravettian culture. Isturitz Cave, cavity in which the bone of a Gravettian woman was found. Credit: Severine Dabadie … Read more
When you imagine lightning, it tends to be pretty simple: an irregular sliver of light that splits the sky and disappears in less time than it takes to blink. But over the centuries, a strange image has emerged in a more horrifying form. Thousands of records and eyewitness accounts have told of balls of lightning … Read more
Follow Us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Tim McCollum captured a stunning view of the Orionid meteors in the early hours of October 21. (Image credit: Tim McCollum) Astrophotographer Tim McCollum captured a spectacular view of Orionid meteors sharing the night sky with a host of deep-sky … Read more
Researchers have found traces of animal protein mixed in a 60,000-year-old layer of red ocher in South Africa. The protein comes from the common eland, a large antelope native to the region. A team from Kyushu University, the University of Bergen and the University of Copenhagen published the results in Proceedings of the Royal Society … Read more