Category: 7. Science

In Dante’s “Divine Comedy,” Hell is described as an “Inferno” with nine concentric circles, the entrance of which has a sign that reads “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”
For the planets of the Solar System, Venus is about as close…

Scientists have identified a 230-million-year-old beetle in northern China whose body plan does not match its known Triassic relatives.

That mismatch opens an unexpected branch in early beetle history and sharpens a poorly preserved chapter of…

The electrons that power our society flow left and right through the circuitry in our electronics, back and forth along the transmission lines that make up our power grid, and up and down to light up every floor of every…

Waiting for chest X-rays or lab results to diagnose pneumonia and other lung-related diseases may not be necessary in the future. Researchers have developed a portable sensor prototype that has the potential to detect such conditions on a…

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Biomedical researchers headed by a team at the Lampe Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/North Carolina State University, have developed an…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Artemis II astronauts have captured our blue planet’s brilliant beauty as they zoom ever closer to the moon.

NASA released the crew’s first downlinked images Friday, 1 1/2 days into the first…