Researchers from Imperial College London and Empa - the material science unit of Swiss Federal Laboratories - have built a prototype drone, called FireDrone.
An optical isolator developed at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) could drastically improve optical systems for many practical applications.
“We turned the entire galaxy into a telescope.”Astrophysicist Becky Smethurst says 15 years worth of scientific studies have led to a discovery of possible ‘...
New evidence indicates that obstructive sleep apnea can cause cognitive impairments in middle-aged men, regardless of whether they have other health issues or are overweight. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a potentially dangerous health condition. It occurs…
Nine cut marks on a 1.45 million-year-old hominin bone suggest another hominin, possibly of the same species, slashed the bone to strip the flesh and eat it.
Astronomers say they have found the first evidence of a long-theorised form of gravitational waves that create a “background hum” rumbling throughout the uni...
Dinosaurs went extinct about 66 million years ago and the most popular theory about their mass exit is that the destruction triggered by a hail of asteroids hitting the Earth wiped them all out.
For the first time, starlight has been detected in galaxies burning brightly with the fury of feeding black holes in the first billion years of the Universe's existence.
The new models derived from human stem cells do not have a brain or beating heart, but they include cells that would typically go on to form the embryo, placenta and yolk sac
Astrophotographers are drawn to the mesmerizing beauty of the Orion Nebula, one of the brightest deep sky objects visible from Earth. Many enthusiasts seize the opportunity to capture its magnificence using their DSLR or mirrorless cameras in conjunction with…
An asteroid named “2022 OR13” has been registered in the ‘Minor Planet Center’ of the International Astronomical Union, and it was identified by the Silchar based citizen science group called...
The Royal Observatory Greenwich shortlisted 34 images for its Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2023 competition from thousands of entries received from all over the world.
Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL) are busy keeping the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter functioning in Jezero Crater on Mars while these robotic explorers continue the search for ancient microbial life on the Red Planet. But …
The Science Partner Journal (SPJ) program is pleased to announce the inclusion of five SPJs in the 2023 Journal Citation Reports (JCR) from Clarivate. These milestones are the latest advancements for the SPJ program, which also had six journals receive CiteS…