Category: 7. SciTech

It was the morning of 24 September 2023 when a returning space capsule appeared in the skies over the US Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. Floating down to Earth under a parachute was a single canister containing 121g (4.3oz) of material from the surface of an asteroid…

A new material made of seawater, carbon dioxide, and electricity could give the construction industry a much-needed climate upgrade. Developed by researchers at Northwestern University, the paste-like substance offers a dual solution: a substitute for mined sand and a way to produce…

NASA has raised the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4, a fast-moving object roughly the size of a 10-story building, could hit the Moon in December 2032. While the chance is still small, the updated forecast does note an increased impact risk that the city-killer asteroid will strike the…

Four critically endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises have hatched for the first time in the Philadelphia Zoo’s 150-year history….

Recent research suggests the age of the Great Red Spot – the huge anticyclone vortex in Jupiter’s atmosphere – formed about 190 years ago. Scientists base this on historical measurements of the storm’s size and motion.

Although the Great Red Spot was first reported by Giovanni Cassini in…

Recent research suggests the age of the Great Red Spot – the huge anticyclone vortex in Jupiter’s atmosphere – formed about 190 years ago. Scientists base this on historical measurements of the storm’s size and motion.

Although the Great Red Spot was first reported by Giovanni Cassini in…

SpaceX is having trouble with Starship’s upper stage after back-to-back failures, but engineers are making remarkable progress with the rocket’s enormous booster.

The most visible sign of SpaceX making headway with Starship’s first stage—called Super Heavy—came at 9:40 am local time (10:40 am…

In a breakthrough for quantum physics and hypothetical felines – scientists have managed to create a ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ state at unusually warm temperatures.

It’s a state that taps into one of the strangest principles in quantum mechanics: the idea that particles can exist in two…

In a breakthrough for quantum physics and hypothetical felines – scientists have managed to create a ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ state at unusually warm temperatures.

It’s a state that taps into one of the strangest principles in quantum mechanics: the idea that particles can exist in two…

All astronomical objects are formed by gravity pulling matter together.

If a cosmic body originates from anything that had even the tiniest amount of rotational motion originally, this spin rate will only become greatly enhanced as the object collapses.

This arises because of the law of…