SCIENCE

[ad_1] For tens of millions of years, Australia has been a playground for evolution, and the land Down Under lays claim to some of the most remarkable creatures on Earth. It is the birthplace of songbirds, the land of egg-laying mammals and the world capital of pouch-bearing marsupials, a group that encompasses far more than […]

[ad_1] Since 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope has offered scientists an incredible view of the universe. It has provided well over 1 million observations. Now, NASA has released “Hubble Focus: The Dark Universe,” a free e-book that explores what the Hubble mission has taught scientists about dark matter and dark energy — and how those

[ad_1] PhD students spend their time pursuing whatever general paths their supervisor has given them, and if they are lucky, it yields enough solid data to finally write a thesis without tearing their hair out. Sometimes along the way they result in discoveries with immediate application outside academia, and so it was for [Paul Bupe

[ad_1] Legend has it that 16th-century Hungarian countess Elizabeth Báthory had a gruesome method for retaining her youthful beauty. Historical records say the noblewoman was accused of and imprisoned for murdering hundreds of girls to bathe in their supposedly restorative blood. The veracity of those accusations is questionable, at best, but the notion of resorting

[ad_1] When it comes to primordial black holes being dark matter suspects, their alibi may be falling apart. Tiny black holes, created seconds after the birth of the universe, may survive longer than expected, reigniting a suspicion that primordial black holes could account for dark matter, the universe’s most mysterious stuff. Dark matter currently represents

[ad_1] First, an explanation of these tiny dead stars. While micro black holes might sound cute, their theoretical existence–as implied by specific theoretical physics models–propounds that little Earth-swallowers would form upon the collision of particles slammed together with enough energy. Of course, these tiny cosmic tears would be much teenier than those encountered in deep

[ad_1] EVANSVILLE – If you missed Monday’s total solar eclipse over Evansville, don’t worry: It’ll happen again … in 129 years. According to both NASA and Eclipse Wise, the city won’t fall into the path of totality until Oct. 17, 2153. That’s when an eclipse will sweep from the southern tip of Alaska and beam

[ad_1] Well, now we’ve torn it. A mission to divert the course of an asteroid in September 2022 may have been a wild success, but it hasn’t been without collateral damage. A new analysis of the debris ejected from the asteroid Dimorphos when NASA slammed the DART spacecraft into it has revealed that some of

[ad_1] Doctors see surge in eye-related injuries days after Total Solar Eclipse. It hasn’t been long since the day when some lucky Earthlings witnessed this year’s Total Solar Eclipse but doctors, in areas that fell in the path of totality, have reported a surge in cases of eye-related injuries. The number of people with eye-related

[ad_1] Evolving Dark Energy // JAXA’s Moon Rover for NASA // Eclipse Experience  Fraser Cain NASA, Japan Advance Space Cooperation, Sign Agreement for Lunar Rover  NASA For the first time since 1972 someone’s landing on the Moon — and they aren’t an American  Salon Japanese astronauts to land on moon as part of new NASA partnership  SpaceNews Japan and