Category: 7. Science

This year, the night sky is putting on a show with the Orionid meteor shower, a new moon and two green comets filling the night sky.

Each October, Earth drifts through the dusty trail left behind by Halley’s comet, creating the annual Orionid…

What happens when you squeeze DNA? Can pressure reveal something about how our genetic material is packed, protected, and accessed?

Dr. Kushol Gupta, a structural biologist at the University of Pennsylvania, turned to the Cornell High Energy…

In new research, paleoanthropologists from the United States and Canada analyzed the morphology of a hominin talus (large bone in the ankle that joins with the tibia of the leg and the calcaneus of the foot) attributed to Ardipithecus ramidus,…

The effects of physical activity don’t stop when the movement does.

In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Virginia Tech researchers in collaboration with researchers at the University of…

Dust from the far side of the Moon has yielded an unexpected microscopic treasure we’ve never seen before.

A close examination of lunar material collected during the China National Space Administration’s Chang’e-6 mission revealed specks of…

Two Falcon 9 rockets lifted off from spaceports in Florida and California on Sunday afternoon, adding 56 more satellites to SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network.

The second of these two…