Bacteria for Blastoff: Using Microbes to Make Supercharged New Rocket Fuel
Scientists turned to an oddball molecule made by bacteria to create a new type of fuel that could be used for all types of vehicles, including rockets. (Credit: Jenny Nuss…
‘Amazing development’: fossil finds show how panda’s false thumb evolved | Palaeontology
Ancient fossils discovered in China have helped researchers get a grip on the enduring mystery of the panda’s false thumb. Modern giant pandas sport a thumb-like sixth digit on their…
The Daring LightSail 2 Spacecraft Is Being Sucked Into Fiery Doom
For the past three years, a tiny loaf-of-bread-sized spacecraft with gigantic wings has been sailing on sunbeams in low Earth orbit. LightSail 2 has far exceeded its life expectancy and…
X-37B spaceplane set to break on-orbit duration record
Mission 4 after landing. Credit: US Air Force Edinburgh / Washington, 30 June 2022. – The US Air Force’s X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Mission 6 is soon going to break…
Explaining genetic modification research
Credit: CC0 Public Domain What do bananas and cavoodles have in common? They’re both lovely, yellowy and have been produced by genetic manipulation. If we went back in time a…
Satellite snaps gorgeous 4K selfie over Great Barrier Reef
A new spacecraft selfie shows the machine in glorious 4K resolution above Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. NanoAvionics, a satellite company based in the United States and United Kingdom, released a…
10 years later: FSU physicist explains impact of Higgs boson discovery
The Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research. Scientists used this particle accelerator to discover the Higgs boson. (Courtesy of CERN) A decade ago, physicists at the…
UH-developed tool can detect ancient life on Earth and beyond
White light (a) and Biofinder (b) images of Green River formation fish fossil. (Photo credit: Misra, et al.) An innovative scientific instrument developed by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers…