Science

James Webb telescope pinpoints the most distant ‘fast radio burst’ ever seen, more than 10 billion light-years away

Astronomers have detected the most distant burst of radio signals ever seen: an explosion that's emitting waves of energy from more than 10 billion light-years away.The event, named FRB...

THE GEARBOX: The Revolutionary Power Expander That Helped Move Mankind Forward

By Gracus Bloom | Industrial Technology News There is a wonderfully misleading phrase sometimes used to describe a gearbox:...

Animals may have evolved 200 million years earlier than previously thought, new study suggests

The first animals may have appeared on Earth hundreds of millions years earlier than their fossils suggest, a...

Star Metal: When Ancient People Worked Metal From the Stars

By Gracus Bloom | Historical Science & Archaeology Long before modern metallurgy gave humanity steel mills, electric furnaces and...

To Blend or Not to Blend? Four Vegetables Worth Eating Whole

Health News | Nutrition, food preparation and what really happens inside your blender The blender debate: Are we missing...

‘Insect apocalypse’ is already fueling malnutrition in some regions, first-of-its-kind study reveals

Insects are disappearing, and they are leaving global food security gaps in their wake. Over the past three decades, bugs have been declining at...

Some gene therapies no longer require clinical trials, thanks to new FDA rule. Is this safe, and who will it help?

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is implementing a new strategy to provide experimental gene therapies to patients with rare disorders without going through...

Very low and very high heart rates linked to increased risk of stroke in huge study

A low resting heart rate is often seen as a sign of good health, but now, a large study suggests that both very low...

Scientists identify 10,000 ‘impossible’ exoplanet candidates, potentially tripling the number of known alien worlds

Scientists may have detected more than 10,000 never-before-seen exoplanets in a single survey, potentially tripling the number of known alien worlds in one fell...

Used SpaceX rocket stage could hit the moon’s Einstein crater this summer, report finds

A discarded piece of a SpaceX rocket carelessly left adrift in space will likely crash into the moon this summer, a new report finds.The...

Antarctica’s sea ice suddenly started shrinking a decade ago — and deep-diving robots are revealing why

Something strange has been swirling in the waters around Antarctica. From the 1970s until a decade ago, the floating sea ice that radiates from...