Category: 7. Science

Astrobiologists have proposed that NASA’s historic Viking missions may have detected signs of life on Mars in 1976, only for a key chemical signal to be mistakenly written off as terrestrial contamination.

The provocative claim, published in…

Researchers have developed a new imaging technique that captures more information about ultrafast processes in the microscopic world than was previously possible. The technique offers scientists a powerful new tool to observe and…

Scientists at the University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering have reached a milestone with the Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search (SuperCDMS) experiment.

Located deep underground at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory Laboratory…

Pallab Ghosh
Science correspondent

Image source, NASA

The service module has…

In Greenland, rapidly melting sea ice isn’t just affecting local fish and animals. It’s also creating major changes in fishing, the region’s dominant industry, and presenting an uncertain future.

What’s happening?

As Euronews reported, changes…

Ten undergraduate students from the University of Chicago made an astounding discovery using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). As part of their “Field Course in Astrophysics,” they located one of the oldest stars in the…

Deep in the ocean’s darkest waters, anglerfish use one of the strangest tools in nature – a glowing lure that dangles in front of their mouths like bait.

For years, scientists assumed it existed for a single purpose: to catch prey. But new…

Researchers have found that Jupiter kept several large moons because a magnetic cavity formed in gas circling the young planet, while Saturn never opened one.

That newly established split explains why the Solar System’s two giant planets ended…