Science
While power conservation has become an increasingly important part of maintaining Voyager 2, it’s not the first time scientific instruments were disabled to conserve energy. Many instruments were turned off … Read More
If you want to pinpoint your place in the Universe, start with your cosmic address. You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky Way Galaxy->Local Cluster->Virgo Cluster->Virgo Supercluster->Laniakea. Thanks to new deep sky … Read More
In a revolutionary breakthrough for the banana industry, scientists have successfully engineered Yelloway One, a banana plant resistant to two of the most destructive diseases: fusarium tropical race 4 (TR4) … Read More
The Washington Post on scientists who “discovered that bacteria commonly found in wastewater can break down plastic to turn it into a food source, a finding that researchers hope could … Read More
Space is a challenging environment for semiconductors, but researchers have shown that a specific type of memristor (the hafnium oxide memristor, to be exact) actually reacts quite usefully when exposed … Read More
Nuclear-powered rockets could one day enable faster space travel. Credit: NASA NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade—but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to … Read More
Scientists have found the oldest living microbes in a two-billion-year-old rock buried almost 50 feet below the ground. The finding suggests that a sealed rock fracture has been hosting the … Read More
A team of cave divers and scientists have uncovered a new cache of extinct monkey fossils submerged deep within the underwater passages of a Caribbean cave. Forty years ago, only … Read More
On Saturday evening (Oct. 5) as darkness is falling, be sure to take a look low toward the west-southwest part of the sky for a beautiful celestial tableau formed by … Read More
Image: Bring A Trailer I am a sucker for a Ducati Monster of any flavor, but particularly the pre-2001 carbureted models. I have been looking for a nice rider-grade example … Read More
