Category: 7. Science

On Saturday, the Beijing-based start-up LandSpace reportedly plans to conduct the maiden launch of its Zhuque-3 rocket – a reusable launch vehicle that could significantly boost China’s space industry by lowering the cost of lifting equipment…

Even though dogs and cats are the most common household pets, they certainly aren’t the only ones. Millions of people also have scaly, slimy, or feathered friends to brighten their homes—and even their workplaces!

Kevin, the Eclectus Parrot, is…

New genomic evidence unmasks the biological pathways driving erectile dysfunction, linking cardiometabolic disease and addiction traits to ED risk through shared genetic roots.

Study: Multi-ancestry investigation of the genomics of…

Dark matter has long been the universe’s most profound ghost, its existence confirmed only by the gravitational havoc it wreaks on visible galaxies. 

Now, a team from the University of Tokyo suggests they may have gathered “direct…

Nearly a century ago, scientists proposed that a mysterious invisible substance they named dark matter clumped around galaxies and formed a cosmic web across the universe.

What dark matter is made from, and whether it is even real, are still open…

For nearly a century, dark matter has remained an enigma. Despite outnumbering normal matter five to one, it cannot be seen, touched or detected using any known techniques.

Now, a bold new analysis of 15 years of data from NASA’s Fermi…

In a new study, a 6-mile-long fiber optic cable laid on the seafloor beside a South Greenland glacier logged 56,000 iceberg breakups in near real time. The array captured the full chain of events from the first crack to waves that churn the…

Astronomers have observed a pair of stars locked in a death spiral, and their dance of doom is revealing more about how gravity works.

The system, called ZTF J2130, sits about 4,000 light-years away. Although astronomers have known about this…

A single molar from a steppe mammoth that died about 1.1 million years ago in northeastern Siberia has preserved tiny fragments of bacterial DNA.

The tooth, found near the Adycha River in Russia, lets scientists study microbes that once lived…