Category: 7. Science

Photo taken on Dec. 17, 2015 shows a Long March 2-D rocket carrying the Dark Matter Particle Explorer satellite blasting off. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)

BEIJING, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) — A series of…

Penn State researchers have developed a new navigation tool that could reshape digital assistance for people with visual impairments.

The smartphone-based system, called NaviSense, uses artificial intelligence to identify objects in real time…

The newly-discovered moon has an estimated diameter of 38 km (23.6 miles) and a V magnitude of 28, likely making it the faintest satellite ever found around a trans-Neptunian object.

An international research team led by Dr. Guadalupe Bribiesca-Contreras from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and Senckenberg scientist Dr. Nadia Santodomingo have discovered a new species of deep-sea coral that lives attached…

Research led by polar scientists from Northumbria University has revealed new hope in natural environmental systems found in East Antarctica which could help mitigate the overall rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over long…

In its latest shakeup to the…

Scientists have engineered a fungus that turns the same amount of feedstock into significantly more edible protein – and does so with far fewer emissions.

In new research from Jiangnan University in Wuxi, China, a gene-edited strain of Fusarium…

Once NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launches in the next 12 to 18 months, it will be on its way toward outdoing scientists’ initial expectations. Researchers have confirmed that Roman should be able to measure enormous seismic waves…

Your last chance to see a supermoon in 2025 is approaching quickly. December’s full moon is scheduled to appear on Dec. 4, exactly one week after Thanksgiving. Even if you don’t make plans to see it, you’ll probably see it anyway, as it’ll be the…

Momentum is growing for building “Earth defenses” to prevent a meteoroid from colliding with the Earth and causing a major disaster. The public needs to see the groundwork discussions regarding international…