Research, Space & Discovery
Putting silicate rocks from mine waste on fields could improve crops and limit global warming, but some researchers question where all that rock is going to come from
Fungus-farming ants have evolved a remarkable solution to the danger of excess carbon dioxide inside their nests – which could inspire ways for humans to capture CO2
The most comprehensive study to date has revealed what we need to eat throughout the day to sleep well that night
The latest in Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time series is out this month, along with a speculative retelling of Moby-Dick and a forgotten classic from 1936
Cables underneath New York City are teeming with entangled quantum particles of light thanks to Qunnect, a company that has spent a decade working on building an unhackable quantum internet
Magnesium has been called the “super mineral of the moment”, hailed for its supposed benefits for the brain and body. But columnist Alice Klein finds that the evidence is lacking for many of these cla...
Firefly Aerospace is returning its Alpha launch vehicle to flight after a nearly 10-month stand…The postFirefly Alpha FLTA007 “Stairway to Seven” ready for another launch attemptappeared first onNASAS...
After spending a few months in Mega Bay 2 fully stacked, Ship 39 – the…The postFlight 12: Ship 39 rolls out to Masseys to begin testingappeared first onNASASpaceFlight.com.
Neuron-powered computer chips can now be easily programmed to play a first-person shooter game, bringing biological computers a step closer to useful applications
With NASA awarding back-to-back Private Astronaut Missions to aerospace companies Vast Space and Axiom Space…The postVast and Axiom awarded new private missions to ISS, continue work on commercial spa...
Many of us obsess over how much sleep we get each night, and the dangers to our health of not getting enough, but really, there is another way
The discovery of bright yet stable pigments is vanishingly rare, making them hugely valuable. Now chemist Mas Subramanian is unpicking the atomic code of colour and homing in on our most-wanted hue
NASA has rolled back the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion spacecraft to the…The postNASA rolls back SLS, fixes aiming for April launchappeared first onNASASpaceFlight.com.
Ukraine has responded to a war it didn’t start by creating an industry it doesn’t want, but could the nation's drone expertise help it rebuild? To learn more, New Scientist gained exclusive access to ...