A powerful European Ariane 5 rocket boosted NASA’s $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope into space on Christmas Day, kicking off a great attempt to capture light from the first galaxies to form in the aftermath of the Big Bang.
The project, called Earth's Black Box, is a giant steel archive on the remote Australian island of Tasmania, so that if some future society might one day discover the archive, they'll be able to piece together what happened to our planet.
The scientists, in collaboration with Singapore General Hospital, created VeCare, a bandage with a wearable sensor that can conduct real-time, point-of-care assessment of chronic wounds via an app.
Engineered Arts, a robot maker based in the U.K., is showing off its latest creation at this year's CES 2022. Called Ameca, the robot is able to display what appears to be the most human-like facial expressions by a robot to date.
More than 4 million Americans are deciding to quit their jobs every month since the since the post-COVID-19 recovery started. People who decide to quit are taking this decision based on their desire to improve their quality of life.
Wildfires in California over the past five years have claimed nearly 20% of the world’s largest Sequoias. Last year alone, forest fires claimed nearly 10,400 trees.
Many fashion brands source leather from opaque supply chains tied to decimating forests. The culprits include Coach, Zara, Prada, Adidas and Dr. Martens. Some, like Louis Vuitton, H&M and Fendi, are multiple offenders.
Astronomers and geologists have recently concluded that most rocky planets orbiting nearby stars are more diverse and exotic than previously thought, with types of rocks not found anywhere in our Solar System.
U.S. scientists recently discovered that water was once present in a region of Mars called Arabia Terra.
The unique form and efficiency of human running, which includes the ability to sustain this form of exertion (i.e., by jogging as opposed to sprinting), and the evolutionary success of humans are closely linked.
So far, only six countries have successfully launched more than 1 ton of equipment into space using domestically developed rockets. Now, a seventh, North Korea, has successfully done so, almost successfully.
Totality was visible only in Antarctica on early Saturday, experienced by a small number of scientists experts and adventure tourists.
At 42m metric tons of plastic waste a year, the US generates more waste than all EU countries combined. Recycling infrastructure has failed to keep pace with the huge growth in American plastic production.
Nasa's Dart mission has launched on a mission to test technology that could one day tip a dangerous asteroid off course. The spacecraft will crash into an object called Dimorphos to see how much its path can be altered.
A 30-year-old woman from the city of Esperanza, Argentina - the so-called Esperanza Patient - appears to be the second person whose immune system cleared the HIV-1 virus without antiretroviral therapy.
