Category: 7. Science

Robots that float, watch, and help keep a spaceship running are no longer science fiction. NASA’s Astrobee robots glide through the International Space Station using quiet fan thrusters, cameras, and smart software to handle chores that do not…

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Pink granite boulders scattered across the dark volcanic peaks of the Hudson Mountains in West Antarctica, have revealed the presence of a vast buried granite body – almost 100 km across and 7 km thick, about half the size of Wales in…

Beatriz Ychussie’s career in mathematics seemed to be going really well. She worked at Roskilde University in Denmark where, in 2015 and 2016 alone, she published four papers on mathematical formulae for quantum particles, heat flow and…

The life of astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to pilot and later command a NASA Space Shuttle, is taking centre stage in the new feature-length documentary Spacewoman, released in UK cinemas on 21 October 2025.

Directed by Hannah…

Ancient explosive volcanic eruptions on Mars could help explain mysterious hints of buried ice from the Red Planet’s equator, a new study finds.

Previous research has found that the surface of Mars is rich in ice. Most of these deposits are…

Plant lines and growth conditions

The plant lines used in this study were derived from A. thaliana wild-type accessions—Col-0 (Columbia-0), Ler (Landsberg erecta), Ws-2 (Wassilewskija-2), Cvi-0 (Cape Verde Islands), and C24—to generate MCviPI…

Scientists have uncovered a “hidden order” in drylands across the planet, where plants follow disordered hyperuniformity — a layout that looks random and disorganized up close but adheres to a clear pattern when viewed from farther away.

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