A cosmic gamma ray detected zipping across the Milky Way has broken the record for the most energetic we've found yet, clocking in at a whopping...
Researchers at Tel Aviv University were able to reconstruct the nutrition of stone age humans. In a paper published in the Yearbook of the American Physical...
Analogue to graphane could be used in batteries and quantum computers
In a genome-wide association study involving 19,644 individuals of European ancestry, an international team of researchers identified 472 genomic regions, or loci,...
The four-pound Ingenuity helicopter was deployed on the surface by NASA’s Perseverance rover, having previously been attached to the rover’s belly.
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It turns out that humans switched to feeding on vegetables only after animals started becoming extinct towards the end of the stone age.
NASA is getting ready to drop a 6,350 kg mock-up of the Orion spacecraft into a large pool in Virginia, the latest in a series of...
When Roger Shawyer's EmDrive was first proposed in 2001, it seemed too good to be true. The proposed electromagnetic drive ("Em" for short) needed no fuel,...
Why are young people imagining themselves as the protagonist in fictionalised versions of their lives?