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On November 26, after countless delays, budget overruns and buckets of sweat, humankind's most capable machine of landing on and...

Moss graffiti: a eco-way of painting street art

February 16, 2016

The term "urban jungle" gets tossed a lot, however it can take a literary connotation when you think of beautiful...

North American natives used to make fabrics out of dog hair

Dogs have a long history alongside humans, as faithful companions. Besides friendship, however, canines offered humans also the means to...

The LED, antenna, and integrated circuit embedded in a plastic contact lens.

Digital contact lens grants Terminator-vision

A group of ophthalmologists and optoelectronics...

Water doesn’t prevent dehydration according to EU officials

June 22, 2014

It's a fairly known fact that the adult human body is typically 60% made out of water. Hence comes the...

Tianjin Steel Plan in Hebei Province, China. (c) Lu Guang

China releases carbon emissions report in light of upcoming UN climate event

Currently, China is the world's largest...

The NGC 1846 globular cluster captured by the Hubble telescope. A hidden green gem lies hidden. (c) NASA

Spectacular spherical star cluster imaged by Hubble

The ever faithful Hubble telescope has offered us yet another fantastic glimpse into the Universe's hidden gems. Captioned below is...

Artist impression of the Phobos-Grunt craft in orbit around Mars. Alas...

Russia’s Phobos probe is alive! Contact established with the failed Russian craft

Two weeks ago, panic engulfed...

Scientists engineer ‘super mice’

Scientists from the École Polytenchnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), with the aid of colleagues from the Salk Institute for Biological...

Each Wave Glider will collect valuable data about the status of the Pacific Ocean's current health.

Unmanned robots embark on epic voyage across the Pacific Ocean

November 21, 2011

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Just one of the slew of dumped tires, as seen in a wooded area near Elloree, S.C. on Nov. 17, 2011. Officials say a $400 littering fine is hardly enough to deal with the problem. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

Giant mound of dumped tires is visible from space

November 22, 2011

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In China, the Meishan Geopark sits on the outcrop (gray wall, right) containing the most famous record of the greatest mass extinction (inset). (c) Shuzhong Shen

Eruption responsible for greatest mass extinction on land and sea

November 18, 2011

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A future space capsule, currently developed by Lockheed Martin for NASA, which might be used to carry astronauts to the International Space Station, the moon or even distant asteroids. (c) AMNHD. Finnin

The past and future of space exploration at the ‘Beyond Planet Earth’ exhibit

May 19, 2017

The Vostok capsule, in which Yuri Gagarin embarked on April 12, 1961 to become the first...

Front of Henry Astley, one of the two researchers involved in the study of frog tendons, and a northern leopard frog in action. (c) Mike Cohea/Brown University.

Frogs’ huge jumps come from spring-like legs

November 18, 2011

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New CERN experiment finds neutrinos still faster than light

November 18, 2011

The idea which states that nothing can travel faster than light is a corner stone of modern day physics, upon...

Jupiter's moon Europa. (c) Michael Benson / Kinetikon Pictures / Corbis

[UPDATE] Europa is filled with shallow lakes under its surface. High chances of life

February 8, 2013

Jupiter's moon Europa. (c) Michael Benson / Kinetikon Pictures / Corbis Yesterday, NASA held a...

Enzyme allows mice to eat more, and gain less weight

November 16, 2011

[caption id="attachment_10118" align="alignnone" width="499" caption="Mice altered to express the IKKbeta enzyme (right column) in their fat had smaller globules of...

Some gas giants have metallic hydrogen in their centers, which explains why Jupiter, for instance, has such a powerful magnetic field. (c) Wikimedia

Scientists turn hydrogen into metal

November 16, 2011

For years and years scientists have tried to make hydrogen exhibit metal properties, by experimentally proving what's already been more...

New treatment kills cancer cells with near infrared light