Scientists blew up their own machine to break the record for most intense magnetic field
Scientists are always looking to push the limits of their own creations, but most of the time that doesn’t mean utterly destroying some very fancy …
Scientists are always looking to push the limits of their own creations, but most of the time that doesn’t mean utterly destroying some very fancy …
When Patches, a now nine-year-old female dachsund, first showed signs of something wrong with her head it didn’t seem particularly serious to her owner Danielle …
SpaceX certainly has a lot on its plate already, with its BFR rocket under construction, a deadline with NASA, and a space tourist program all …
Cats are good at so many thing — napping, chasing laser pointer dots around the room, napping, eating, and napping, just to name a few …
It’s only been a couple of days since Japanese space agency JAXA showed off the very first images taken from an asteroid’s surface, but we’re …
Remember back in April when China’s Tiangong-1 space station unceremoniously fell out of the sky, burned up in the atmosphere and rained a bit of …
Mankind fancies itself pretty capable when it comes to taming Mother Nature, but many things humans have invented to manipulate nature to our liking have …
There are only a handful of very large bird species around today, but as intimidating as an ostrich might be when it’s staring down at …
It’s now been several months since NASA’s Opportunity rover fell silent. A massive dust storm on Mars shrouded the planet in darkness and cut off …
Late in 2017 our Solar System received a very peculiar visitor. Called Oumuamua, it was a comet (or was it an asteroid?) with a bizarre …
It’s no secret that the Earth’s coral reefs are in dire need of some TLC. Combinations of severe weather and manmade global warming have left …
There are obviously lots and lots of species in the animal kingdom that require both a male and female for reproduction, but not all of …
When mankind first noticed Mars in the sky there were surely plenty of people who wondered if life was roaming around on its surface. In …
Mars is a pretty important place these days, what with space agencies around the world doing their best to get there and SpaceX suggesting it’ll …
When looking at the Earth from afar it appears to be a perfect sphere, but that actually isn’t the case. Because Earth isn’t uniform on …
NASA astronauts deserve all the accolades in the book and then some. The men and women that put their lives on the line in the …
Never let it be said that Elon Musk isn’t one heck of an optimist. The SpaceX boss has been doing a whole lot of forecasting …
When a person has been missing for over four decades it’s obviously pretty difficult for family members to hold out hope that their remains will …
We’ve seen plenty of photos taken from the surface of places other than Earth. There’s the Moon of course, a huge archive of images snapped …
If you’d like to avoid intense abdominal pain and diarrhea the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there’s a new place you should be …
We’re used to NASA dropping gorgeous photos of far-off objects in space, but its most recent observations are much closer to home. In a new …
To us puny humans, Earth is a pretty big place. There’s lots to see, do, and explore here on the planet where we originated. We …
At the end of August, Japanese space agency JAXA announced when it would attempt to deploy a pair of very special rovers to the surface …
Mankind has made a real mess of planet Earth. Our trash is just about everywhere, from city streets to the most remote areas of the …
Keeping your dog or cat up to date with preventative treatments so they remain free of fleas and ticks is something that every responsible pet …
It took mankind untold eons to learn how to fly, but now artificial intelligence is doing something similar and in a fraction of the time. …
You might not imagine that you have much in common with an octopus. Humans and octopuses certainly don’t look similar, and their brains are far …
You’ve probably never heard of a long-extinct organism known as Dickinsonia. Unlike dinosaurs like the Tyrannosaurus rex or more recent extinct beasts like the wooly …
NASA’s rover situation on Mars is, well, complicated. The aging Opportunity rover was swallowed up by the planet-wide dust storm that covered Mars earlier this …
Arachnophobes will want to avoid the Greek town of Aitoliko for a while. That’s because a massive army of eight-legged web weavers has descended upon …