The European Space Agency has predicted the future of our sun - it will will start on a path of destruction in at least 5 billion years when it reaches its maximum temperature.

New dynamical computer models show that life here on Earth was likely given a push and a pull from our own planet Jupiter. Our farflung gas giant has enough gravitational oomph to largely dictate the dynamics of how our tiny planet shimmies and shakes around …

This incredible phenomenon looks like something out of sci-fi, but it’s real!

Apple (Malus domestica) is a major commercial fruit tree cultivated worldwide. Adventitious shoot (AS) regeneration is a display of plant totipotency; it not only accelerates plant reproduction but also facilitates genetic transformation. Nonetheless, methods…

ANU research analyses heart risks for astronauts

Researchers at Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) discovered a chemical process that can explain the very low amino acid abundances in aqueously altered carbonaceous chondrites, deepening our understanding on the Solar System chemical evolution.

Scientists have discovered the remarkable impact of reversing a standard method for combatting a key obstacle to producing fusion energy on Earth. Theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have proposed doi…

Conventional dental photography technology has had a limitation in using inconvenient tools such as mirrors and cheek retractors. Dentists require basic teeth images from various angles, such as right/left buccal and maxillary/mandibular occlusal, for dental …

NASA Awards Help Universities Advance Next-Generation Space Tech

The string debris incident.

This image from NASA's Mars Odyssey shows sand dunes within Proctor Crater. These dunes are composed of basaltic sand that has collected in the bottom of the crater.

Arizona, Aug 19: The ocean floor is famously less explored than the surface of Mars. And when our team of scientists recently mapped the seabed, and ancient sediments beneath, we discovered what looks like an asteroid impact crater. Intriguingly, the crater, …

Potential host range and spillover risk for novel viruses can be predicted using a network informed by known virus-host associations.

The late Colm Costello's Killaneen Boy, now owned by Bernie Roche, took the top honours at Tipperary Area Summer Show

Astronomers have filmed the massive cosmic dance that began billions of years ago between two galaxies, causing them to collide, giving birth to a new, chaotic galaxy. At the center of the galaxy c…

Space science experts have predicted more Solar storms heading to Earth over the next few days.

Some of these galaxies may seem familiar. Others warrant a longer stare.

On August 20 1977, 45 years ago, an extraordinary spacecraft left this planet on a journey like no other. Voyager 2 was going to show us, for the first time, what the outer solar system planets looked like close-up. It was like sending a fly to New York City …

This vintage segment on NASA’s Copernicus mission comes from a 1973 edition of “The Science Report,” a long-running film series produced by the U.S. Informat...

Just over 250 million years ago during the end of the Permian period and start of the Triassic, reptiles had one heck of a coming out party.

Imagine how much Apple would charge for a power lead that long

Vox environmental reporter Benji Jones joins guest host Courtney Collins to discuss why it’s so hard to protect animals when the scientific community isn’t sure if they still exist.

On this World Photography Day, interesting engineering presents some of the most stunning photographs from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, the largest telescope in the world.

Despite great success in generation of ultralong organic phosphorescence (UOP) by suppressing non-radiative transitions through attractive interactions, consideration of repulsive interactions on UOP remains largely unexplored. Here, the authors introduce car…

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have designed a compact multi-petawatt laser that uses plasma transmission gratings to overcome the power limitations of conventional solid-state optical gratings. The design could enable construction …