It’s just not practical for a private citizen to own an actual car-sized NASA Mars rover, as cool as that would be. But with an assist from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, you can build a mini version to explore your own backyard. The JPL Open Source Rover Project tells you everything you need to know […]
From doorstop to showstopper. This is the rags-to-riches story of a rock from outer space. A Grand Rapids, Michigan, man, who wishes to remain anonymous, bought a farm near Edmore, Michigan, in 1988. It came with a weird rock that was used to prop open the door of a shed. The former owner told […]
Out past Neptune, something weird is happening to the orbits of a bunch of space rocks circling the sun. Something, scientists believed, that could only be described by the presence of a giant planet — the so-called Planet Nine. It’s baffled astronomers for years, and now there’s yet another another candidate for the cosmic wobbliness […]
If you dive 7,500 metres below the ocean’s surface, chances are you’re going to see some pretty gnarly wildlife. Especially in one of the world’s deepest ocean trenches. A team of 40 scientists from 17 countries has journeyed 7.5 kilometres (4.6 miles) below the surface of the water in the Atacama Trench in the Pacific […]
Eye can barely believe it, but it’s true. Researchers at John Hopkins University in Maryland created eyeball parts from stem cells in the hopes of better understanding the how and why we developed ‘trichromatic vision’ — the ability to see in red, blue and green. The study was published in Science on Oct. 12. Organoids are […]
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is set to explore more distant worlds than ever before when it flies past 2014 MU69 in the early hours of New Year’s Day. The craft has gradually made its approach over the last two weeks as NASA scientists performed a series of checks and trajectory corrections to ensure New Horizons […]
Face scanning isn’t just for humans anymore. Norwegian fish farming giant Cermaq plans to roll out facial recognition technology at salmon farms that scan each fish’s head for sea lice, Bloomberg Businessweek reported Monday. Each individual fish will reportedly have a medical record that’s tracked over time. The spread of sea lice in salmon farms is […]
The world’s use of plastic is costing us, and our oceans, a high price. But thanks to scientists at the University of Swansea, there might be one solution to the waste that kills thousands of sea creatures every year. The new research, led by Dr. Moritz Kuehnel, would see plastic waste turned into hydrogen. If […]
About 35 years ago, to celebrate the coming of the year 1984 — made popular decades earlier by George Orwell’s dystopian novel — Isaac Asimov was asked to write about what the year 2019 might look like. The famed futurist and author wrote of a world dominated by computers and robots, where technology has replaced teachers […]