Category: 7. Science

Before a space telescope ever reaches orbit, and long after satellites are up there, NASA has another way to do frontier science: high-altitude scientific balloons. These helium balloons can loft instruments to roughly 120,000 feet (about 36.6…

Far away in the universe, something surprising happened that no astronomer saw coming. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spotted the glowing remains of two space rocks crashing together in a nearby planetary system, a rare cosmic event that looked…

When it comes to landslides, some of our planet’s largest have occurred underwater. But out of sight shouldn’t mean out of mind—submarine landslides can be both damaging and dangerous.

Researchers have now mapped the Stad Slide, an…

Researchers are building a computer chip-like device that mimics the brain, and eventually dissolves into the dirt after use. 

The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea has developed a fully biodegradable…

The question is playful and unrealistic, but it points to a serious idea: the tension between quantity and quality. New research suggests this same tradeoff has shaped evolution, especially in the rise of complex animal societies.

How ants…

NASA’s SPHEREx observatory has completed its first map of the entire sky over Earth, and it is incredible.

Beyond its aesthetic value, the map and the rest of the data collected by SPHEREx, which launched in March this year, will help…

The researchers in a recent breakthrough have successfully modelled…