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How seeing a black hole’s shadow will tell us if Einstein was right
To capture the first-ever image of a black hole, a team of international scientists travel to extreme altitudes in Northern Chile’s Atacama desert, home to the world’s best view of the night sky. Watch...
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How a global network of telescopes may give us first glimpse of a black hole
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSALMA telescope spots birth of a planet in ‘milestone’ discovery This telescope is so extreme, the weak of heart need not apply Kepler telescope spots a...
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8 things you didn’t know about manatees
November is Manatee Awareness Month. Celebrate by learning eight facts about the gentle sea cows. Illustrations by Ruth Tam Manatees are the slow, lumbering, gentle giants of the aquatic ecosystem....
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8 things you didn’t know about Alan Turing
Alan Turing and colleagues working on the Ferranti Mark I Computer, 1951. Photo by SSPL/Getty Images An English mathematician, logician and cryptographer, Alan Turing was responsible for breaking the...
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Invisible shield in space protects Earth from ‘killer electrons’
A cloud of cold, charged gas around Earth, called the plasmasphere and seen here in purple, interacts with the particles in Earth’s radiation belts — shown in grey— to create an impenetrable barrier...
View ArticleWhat does the salty sea air put in our clouds?
If you get close to the ocean, you can smell it. That salty odor is distinct, and carried by sea spray spritzing into the air. But there’s more than salt in the sea spray. There’s phytoplankton,...
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Using Blu-ray discs to improve solar cell technology
The surfaces of Blu-ray discs have proven to be useful in increasing solar panel efficiency. Photo by Flickr userBlake Patterson Forget commentaries or deleted scenes; a new special feature found...
View ArticleResearchers find power in seeing the ‘silver lining’ of negative personality...
Associating one’s own negative trait with a related positive characteristic can increase productivity in that area, according to a New York University study. In a paper published in the Journal of...
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DNA all but confirms 500-year-old bones are King Richard III’s
British scientists have determined with nearly 100 percent accuracy that the remains of lying under a municipal parking lot in the central English city of Leicester belonged to King Richard III of...
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Photos: NASA prepares Orion to send humans to Mars
It will take a big rocket to get to Mars, and a big space capsule to protect humans during the months-long journey. It also takes decades of testing and development to plan a mission that will take...
View ArticleLIVE: Watch NASA’s Orion test launch
NASA is preparing to launch the Orion spacecraft on its first test flight Thursday morning at 7:05am EST, with a 2 hour, 39 minute launch window. Barring any delays, the unmanned Orion will orbit the...
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Before NASA pioneers to Mars, Orion spacecraft faces tests
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSPhotos: NASA prepares Orion to send humans to mars Anchor failure puts Philae lander in precarious position —Part 1 Rocket explosion raises questions about...
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Zig-zag on ancient shell may rewrite art and human history
Inside one of the fossil shells found on Java shows a hole. Scientists believe Homo erectus learned to use shark teeth to carve at this spot, pressing on the adductor muscle and opening the shell....
View ArticleCan humans become a multi-planet species?
NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay travels the most remote parts of Earth to understand how life might survive on other planets. But he’s also investigating another potential life form in space: humans....
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‘Father of video games’ Ralph Baer dies at 92
Ralph Baer, pictured on the right in 2008, was considered the “Father of Video Games.” Baer died Saturday at the age of 92. Photo by Flickr user Alex Handy The “Father of Video Games,” Ralph Baer, died...
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NASA’s New Horizon probe wakes up in time to photograph Pluto in 2015
Photo by NASA Marshall Space Flight Center On Saturday night at 9:30 p.m. ET, an alarm clock went off for NASA’s New Horizon probe, 2.9 billion miles away from Earth. At 9:52 p.m., the piano-size...
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Talking to dogs isn’t so far-fetched: Researchers translate canine with...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSCan dogs be taught to detect the smell of cancer? From obedience to agility: A day in the life of a service dog in training Will cancer-sniffing dogs lose...
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7 things every woman should know before freezing her eggs
This illustration shows in vitro fertilization, in which a single sperm is injected into the cytoplasm of an egg. Image by Brand X Pictures and Getty Images. As women age, the likelihood of chromosomal...
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Rosetta spacecraft finds water on Earth didn’t come from comets
Tools on board the Rosetta spacecraft analyzed water vapor streaming from Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. They didn’t find a match for Earth’s water. Image by DLR German Aerospace Center It’s a...
View Article‘SciGirls’ turns the camera on young citizen scientists
Three pre-teen girls — Quinn, Izzie and Mimi — watch a butterfly emerge from its cocoon. A camera captures the wonder on their faces as they hold the newly formed butterfly. These girls are the star...
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