Located from Chile to Zimbabwe is the South Atlantic Anomaly, which researchers believe has an extremely magnetic field. Couldn’t help but notice they’re not even studying a stalagmite near the time of a reversal. Nevertheless, scientists are still left with…

New Horizons will make its closest approach in the wee hours of Jan. 1 – 12:33 a. m. EST. Closest approach will bring the spacecraft within 2,200 miles ( 3,500 kilometers ) of Ultima Thule. Our team worked hard to…

A Chinese space probe is moving into position to land on the dark side of the moon for the first. It has a different composition than sites on the near side, where previous missions have landed. The spacecraft landed close…

A new catalyst could dramatically decrease the cost of producing hydrogen, one of the cleanest renewable fuels. Many fuel cells require expensive platinum-based catalysts substances that initiate and speed up chemical reactions – to help convert renewable fuels into electrical…

Researchers at the University of Washington have genetically modified a common houseplant “pothos ivy” to remove chloroform and benzene from the air around it. The pothos ivy was engineered to express a protein called 2E1 which enables the breakdown of…

SpaceX’s fourth attempt in a week after technical and weather delays – would be a significant victory for Musk’s rocket company, which has spent years trying to break into the lucrative market for military space launches long-dominated by Lockheed and…

In their article, the scientists propose a new model with dark energy and our universe riding on an expanding bubble in an extra dimension. So, one idea for the dark energy is that it is a modern version of the…

A team of Florida State University researchers has unlocked a decades-old mystery about how a critical cellular process is regulated and what that could mean for the future study of genetics. All of this work has, however, been based on…

Astronauts Anne McClain from American space agency Nasa, David Saint-Jacques from the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos left aboard the Russian spacecraft from Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. In August, the space station crew…

Musk’s Twitter photo gives an indication of the scale of the prototype. The craft is expected to cost $ 5 billion and will be capable of taking up to 100 tons of cargo or 100 passengers as far as Mars,…