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Category: 7. Science
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Neanderthals May Have Used Birch Tar as Natural Antibiotic
New experiments show that tar made from birch bark — long known as a tool adhesive — can inhibit harmful bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus, suggesting Neanderthals may have used it to treat wounds and manage infection during the Ice…
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U.S. astronauts complete spacewalk outside space station-Xinhua
LOS ANGELES, March 18 (Xinhua) — NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Chris Williams completed a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Wednesday.
The spacewalk began at 8:52 a.m. Eastern Time and concluded at 3:54 p.m., according…
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SLAC-Led SuperCDMS Experiment Reaches Operational Temperature
An international collaboration led by the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory has achieved a critical milestone in the search for dark matter, successfully cooling the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS)…
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NASA rover detects some of the oldest evidence of water flowing on Mars – Reuters
- NASA rover detects some of the oldest evidence of water flowing on Mars Reuters
- NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover discovers even older lost rivers at Jezero Crater Scientific American
- Scientists Just Found a Black Rock on Mars Packed With Ancient…
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Astronomers find extremely rare star from ancient universe
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Stars in the faint dwarf galaxy Pictor II home of PicII-503 an iron deficient second generation star. | Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/DOE/NSF/AURAImage…
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‘At the edge of what we thought possible’: Astronomers find extremely rare star from ancient universe
Scientists have adopted the role of “cosmic archaeologists” to discover a rare, iron-deficient second-generation star — essentially a fossil record of our universe’s chemical evolution. Just as uncovering artifacts here on Earth teaches us…
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Avoidance of rejuvenation: a stress test for evolutionary theories of aging
Zhang, B., Trapp, A., Kerepesi, C. & Gladyshev, V. N. Emerging rejuvenation strategies—Reducing the biological age. Aging Cell 21, e13538 (2022).
Tarkhov, A. E., Denisov, K. A. & Fedichev, P….
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SpaceX fires up next-gen ‘V3’ Starship for 1st time ahead of April launch (photos)
SpaceX’s biggest, most powerful Starship to date just breathed fire for the first time.
On Monday (March 16), the company conducted a static fire test with Starship‘s “Super Heavy” first stage, briefly igniting the booster’s engines while the…
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NASA Exoplanet-Hunting CubeSat Delivers “First Light” Images
NASA’s Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) is a small space telescope that launched to space on January 11th, 2026. Created by NASA and researchers from the School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) at the University of…
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