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Study Says Asteroid Responsible For Dinosaurs Extinction
About 66 million years ago, 75 percent of life on earth went extinct. Over the years, scientists have debated whether it was massive volcanic eruptions or an asteroid that played the biggest role in the extinction of the... More of this article »
NASA Loses Contact With ASTERIA Satellite
Mission operators at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has announced that they have lost contact with one of their spacecraft. Contact was lost with ASTERIA, short for Arcsecond Space Telescope Enabling... More of this article »
Venus May Host Active Volcanoes
New research released by Universities Space Research Association (USRA) suggests that Venus could be volcanically active today. The finding would mark the first time humans observed an active volcano on another planet. The research... More of this article »
New Report Details Climate Change Effects On Arctic
The newest annual Arctic Report Card, a peer-reviewed assessment produced by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, is painting a disturbing picture of the state of the region. The report focuses on the effects of... More of this article »
‘CRISPR Babies’ Experiment May Have Unintended Consequences
More than a year ago, the world was shocked by Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui’s highly controversial attempt to create HIV-immune babies using CRISPR technology. Now, an MIT Technology Review report says he may have created... More of this article »
Florida High School Becomes First To Use Synthetic Frogs
J.W. Mitchell High School in New Port Richey, Florida has become the first school in the world to use man-made, synthetic frogs for science class dissections. About 100 of the reusable synthetic frogs were dissected by students... More of this article »
European Space Agency Gets Big Funding Boost
The European Space Agency announced that it has been granted more money than it expected from the 22 member states that fund it. During its meeting in Seville, Spain, representatives from all the countries that make up ESA agreed... More of this article »
Astronomers Annoyed With Elon Musk’s Starlink Satellites
SpaceX’s Starlink mini internet satellites are already disrupting astronomical research, to the annoyance of astronomers. Researchers at a Chilean observatory found their work interrupted for about five minutes when a Starlink satellite... More of this article »
Eagle’s Roaming Charges Nearly Bankrupt Study
A Russian research project involving migratory eagles was nearly bankrupted by massive roaming charges after the birds crossed over into Iran. As data bills for the tracking devices on the birds quickly ate up the study’s funds,... More of this article »
Ship To Be Frozen Into Arctic Ice For Climate Change Study
The scientists of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) have selected the piece of ice they plan to freeze into for the next year. The MOSAiC design involves freezing the German icebreaker... More of this article »
Science Behind T. Rex Bite Revealed
Scientists agree that the Tyrannosaurus rex had the strongest bite of any land animal in Earth’s history. What has remained a mystery was how the dinosaur delivered such strong bites without damaging its own skull. Now, University... More of this article »
Research Shows Cats Bond With People
Despite their aloofness, a new study appears to show that cats are just as capable of relationships with people as dogs or infants. Previous studies had reached conflicting findings about whether cats form attachments to their... More of this article »
Missing Indian Probe Located On Surface Of The Moon
India has located its missing Vikram lander from its Chandrayaan-2 mission on the surface of the moon. Indian Space and Research Organisation (ISRO) spokesperson Vivek Singh said that a thermal image of the lander had been taken... More of this article »
Action Being Taken On Legal Marijuana For Research
The federal government has opened the door for medical and scientific researchers to have better access to legal marijuana for study purposes. The Drug Enforcement Administration has filed a notice in the Federal Register announcing... More of this article »
UK Study Parallels US Study, Suggesting Life Expectancy Better Among Rich Communities
Everyone wants to have the best life expectancy—that is the number of years you can expect to live. Of course, the better your life expectancy is, the longer your life will probably be. The good news is that you have a lot of control... More of this article »
First evidence of water found on Earth-sized exoplanets
Astronomers may have found first-ever evidence of water existing on a distant planet orbiting the ultracool TRAPPIST-1 dwarf star 40 light-years away. According to astronomers who used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to estimate... More of this article »
Producing methanol fuel out of thin air becomes possible
A study that could have major implications on the future of methanol as a fuel has found a cheap way of creating methanol out of thin air. Scientists at Cardiff University in the UK and colleagues have found a way to produce methanol... More of this article »
Early human footprints could put evolution theory to test
5.7 million year-old footprints discovered on Greece’s largest island Crete – possibly of early humans – could put the evolution theory to tests, scientists have said. If we look at the general belief surrounding... More of this article »
Elon Musk reveals SpaceX’s future space suits
SpaceX chief Elon Musk has shown off the space company’s latest space suit. The space suit has been created inhouse by SpaceX. The image shows off the full-body shot next to a Crew Dragon capsule – a vehicle built for NASA... More of this article »