Category: 9. Sci-Tech

Anyone hungry for the icy crunch of a Pluto-like body? No? Well, one nearby white dwarf is going all in on a Pluto-esque snack.

According to NASA, the Hubble Space Telescope has spotted a “burned-out star” snacking on a “fragment of a Pluto-like…

Small fragments of rock can reveal a lot when they’re analyzed with powerful laboratory instruments. New research into tiny fragments of the asteroid Ryugu sampled by JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission showed that water flowed through it more than…

Peptide immobilization was done via a copper-catalyzed cycloaddition reaction, by coupling the ethynyl group of the C-terminal propargylglycine residue to azide-modified SPR gold chips (Xantec AZD-50 L) (Fig. S1). These chips feature a 50 nm…

Scientists are considering the possibility of launching a nuclear weapon at an asteroid that could potentially hit the moon in 2032 — but they say more research is needed before taking this forward as an option.

The investigation concerns…

SpaceX is continuing to gear up for the next flight of its Starship megarocket, which may be just around the corner.

The company conducted a “static fire” test with its latest Starship upper stage recently, firing up its six Raptor engines while…

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Ice at minus 10 degrees Celsius releases more iron from common minerals than liquid water at 4 degrees Celsius, according to a team of researchers from Umeå University, the Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes and CNRS. This discovery…