Science

Remember that time you were out with some friends and tripped on a curb, but it definitely had nothing to do with the fact that you’d been drinking all night because you’re just clumsy all the time? Your phone knew it was the booze. But imagine if instead of just...

Google is celebrating the 190th birthday of the chemist and writer Julius Lothar Meyer with a Doodle depicting him experimenting in the lab to a backdrop of his vertical display of elements. Meyer was the son of a doctor from Varel in Germany. He qualified in medicine himself in 1854...

For years, scientists have been attempting to track an extremely rare “boomerang” earthquake. Now, they’ve recorded one in the ocean for the first time - and it’s even more bizarre than they expected. Earthquakes are the result of rocks breaking on a fault, which is a boundary between two plates....

NASA's first asteroid sampling spacecraft is making final preparations to grab a sample from asteroid Bennu's surface. Next week, the OSIRIS-REx mission will conduct a second rehearsal of its touchdown sequence, practicing the sample collection activities one last time before touching down on Bennu this fall. On Aug. 11, the...

The Scientists revealed that lava tubes on the celestial bodies are up to 1,000 times larger than those on our planet. The international journal Earth-Science Reviews published a paper offering an overview of the lava tubes (pyroducts) on Earth, eventually providing an estimate of the (greater) size of their lunar...

The #LaunchAmerica mission aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon “Endeavour” spacecraft that brought NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley back to Earth marked the first splashdown of an American crew spacecraft in 45 years. Tune in at 4:30 p.m. EDT to hear Bob and Doug talk about this milestone in...

Modern Mars is a barren world, drier than any desert on Earth. But geological evidence shows that this wasn’t always the case – in the distant past the Red Planet had flowing water. It’s long been thought that ancient Mars was warm and wet, but a new study has...

Dinosaurs lived in a time where dangers lurked around every corner. The food chain dictated who lived and who died, and for plant-eaters, avoiding hungry carnivores was of utmost importance. We don’t often think of dinosaurs suffering from medical conditions, but they were animals all the same, and a...

A large number of the valley networks scarring Mars's surface were carved by water melting beneath glacial ice, not by free-flowing rivers as previously thought, according to new UBC research published today in Nature Geoscience. The findings effectively throw cold water on the dominant "warm and wet ancient Mars"...

Appearing like a shimmering symmetrical butterfly fluttering in the deep void of interstellar space, an arresting image of a planetary nebula's gas bubble has just been captured by The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in never-seen clarity and detail. known as NGC 2899 — appears to float...