Category: 9. Sci-Tech

A British-built space instrument has officially launched aboard NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) mission

Developed with £4.2 million funding from the UK Space Agency,…

Archaeologists found a bone whistle used by ancient Egyptian guards to warn of grave robbers,…

Black hole mergers are some of the most violent events in the universe. Just how violent is becoming more clear in part due to a new paper published in Nature Astronomy. For the first time, it tracks the “recoil” that the newly…

Black holes present a unique laboratory for exploring the fundamental connections between gravity, theory and statistical mechanics, and scientists continually seek new ways to test the limits of Einstein’s theory. Amijit Bhattacharjee and…

acceleration: A change in the speed or direction of some object.

aerosol: (adj. aerosolized) A tiny solid or liquid particle suspended in air or as a gas. Aerosols can be natural, such as fog or gas from volcanic eruptions, or artificial,…

SpaceX’s next flight of its giant Starship (test flight 11) is likely to launch on October 13th.

The date has been confirmed by SpaceX, and the US Coast Guard’s local Notice to Mariners talks of the flight…

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Scientists have been using ancient DNA to investigate questions about extinct animals since 1984, when researchers recovered two pieces of DNA from a museum specimen of a quagga, a zebra-like species that went extinct in the 19th century. Over…

Venus is often called Earth’s “sister planet” because of their similarities in size, mass, and composition. Both are rocky worlds that formed around the same time in the inner Solar System however, despite these similarities, Venus…