Aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Don Petit took this stunning image in a long exposure capture.
Within just one photo, Petit revealed many different events that could be seen from low-Earth orbit, from star trails to…
Aboard the International Space Station (ISS), NASA astronaut Don Petit took this stunning image in a long exposure capture.
Within just one photo, Petit revealed many different events that could be seen from low-Earth orbit, from star trails to…
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Scientists were left perplexed by the impact of an undetected flood in Greenland that occurred over a decade ago. The findings are raising as many questions as answers.
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A meteorite that survived atmospheric entry and smashed through the roof of a Georgia home earlier this year may have…
A tiny blob of gelatinous tissue sitting in a dish represents a giant leap forward in human brain research.
Known as an organoid, it’s a living 3D model of a human organ; one of the first to constitute multiple different regions of the brain….
The election of US President Donald Trump last year triggered widespread concern in the US scientific community, but some researchers saw a glimmer of hope in the form of Michael Kratsios — the president’s chief science adviser. Scientists…
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Efforts to engineer a river to reduce flood risk might have unintentionally contributed to severe erosion of the riverbed, worsening the impact of the flood.
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Margaret Ann Boden, one of the last surviving members of the first generation of artificial intelligence (AI) researchers, has died at 89. She was the sort of polymath that many AI scientists long thought essential to…