Category: 7. Science

This article originally appeared on The Conversation.

Envision a time when hundreds of spacecraft are exploring the solar system and beyond. That’s the future that NASA’s ESCAPADE, or Escape and Plasma Acceleration and…

When the solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago, a gigantic cloud of dust and gas collapsed on itself. And according to a recent study, without Jupiter’s help, Earth would have been swallowed up by the sun. 

It must be said that the

Renowned computer scientist Yoshua Bengio has made history by becoming the first living researcher to surpass one million citations on Google Scholar, a milestone almost unheard of in modern academia. The achievement reflects not only…

The IceCube Collaboration, comprised of international researchers, has presented findings from a ten-year analysis revealing no statistically significant clustering between high-energy neutrinos detected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and…

Meet HD 98800, a nearby quadruple‑star system in the constellation Crater. It sits about 150 light‑years away and is approximately 10 million years old.

That age places it in a formative phase when stars finish settling and nearby material…

A landmark study that claimed men enjoy an unfair advantage in scientific careers has been seriously challenged: a nearly identical rerun of the experiment has found that the opposite is true.

The results are all the more striking because a…

Sea urchins may just look like a ball of spikes waiting to be stepped on at the tide pool, but there’s much more to these barbed beasts than just roe and teeth.

New research reveals sea urchin nervous systems are far more complex than we knew….