Category: 9. Sci-Tech

Over the past decade, ECC has become a widespread group of pathogens capable of causing a range of disorders, including pneumonia, urinary tract infections, and septicaemia [1, 20]. The strains assessed in this study were…

Researchers in China have opened a new window into the deep past by blasting dinosaur eggs with a laser, dating them directly for the first time.

A micro-laser was used to vaporize small portions of an eggshell, which released a cloud of…

The mission is named for George Carruthers, an engineer and solar physicist who developed an ultraviolet camera placed on the Moon by the Apollo 16 astronauts in 1972. This camera captured the first view of the geocorona, a…

Thanks to missions that have been exploring the Red Planet since the 1970s, it has been established that Mars was once a much different place than what we see there today. Instead of an extremely cold, extremely dry, and irradiated…

Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells, or capsids, around their genomes — a process that, while messy and complex, consistently results in highly symmetrical icosahedral…

Magic is in the air. No wait… MAGEQ is in the air, featuring scientists from NASA centers across the country who teamed up with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the University of Maryland Baltimore County, and…

Scientists in Patagonia just revealed their research on the Joaquinraptor Casali, a newly discovered megaraptor with Freddy Kruger-style knife hands that apparently died with chunks of crocodile in its mouth.

This thing was not the size of…

HOUSTON — The first astronauts to visit the moon in the 21st century can’t wait for their trip.

The four astronauts of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission to the moon, which could launch as early as Feb. 5 of next year, are deep in training for the first…

An international collaboration of astronomers, including from the University of Toronto, have detected the brightest Fast Radio Burst (FRB) to date – and have been able to pinpoint its location in a nearby galaxy by using a network of…

When wildfires scorch a landscape, the flames are just the beginning. NASA is helping communities across the nation foresee and prepare for what can follow: mudslides, flash flooding, and contaminated surface water supplies.

A new online…