After more than a decade of scanning the stars, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has officially gone silent. The Gaia shutdown marks the end of a groundbreaking mission but not the end of its legacy.
Launched in 2013,…
After more than a decade of scanning the stars, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has officially gone silent. The Gaia shutdown marks the end of a groundbreaking mission but not the end of its legacy.
Launched in 2013,…
Three storms which battered the nation within the space of a week leaving 1.4 million…
President Donald Trump is once again peddling a largely unfounded claim that wind energy is…
New archaeological research is revealing that, more than a thousand years before Britain…
Americans, as you may have noticed, like to supersize things. Soda cans are bigger here, and so are hotel rooms, houses, and cars. Here in the U.S., giant pickup trucks and SUVs are the norm; visit any school at pickup time and you’re…
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Kojima: There is a theory in particle physics called the Standard Model, but it can only explain about 5 percent of the mass and energy in the universe. In fact, it is thought that about…
Scientists have discovered a new species of ancient wasp, encased in 99-million-year-old…
Scientists discovered of a previously unknown species of wasp preserved in 99-million-year-old amber from the Kachin region of northern Myanmar. The findings were reported in a study published in the scientific journal BMC Biology.
The…
Paleontologists announced the discovery of a new dinosaur species, Duonychus tsogtbaatari, in Mongolia in a study published in the journal iScience led by Yoshitsugu Kobayashi from Hokkaido University.
Duonychus tsogtbaatari lived…
The human brain appears to undergo accelerated ageing once a person reaches the age of 44,…