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...

‘Now our lives have changed’: Drop in coal burning is helping the African Sahel turn green after decades of drought

This article was originally published by Yale Environment 360.Near-extinct oryx are returning. Farms are prospering as irrigation water reaches fields for the first time...

Most-detailed-ever view of the sun’s surface revealed in new images from the world’s largest solar telescope

New images captured by the world's most powerful solar telescope have revealed something that was hiding in plain sight on the sun for 150...

First deaths from Cyclospora outbreak reported in Michigan

Editor's note: This is a developing story and may be updated.Michigan has reported two deaths in its ongoing Cyclospora outbreak, a wave of parasitic...

‘We are not giving up yet’: Private mission to rescue NASA’s Swift telescope is spinning out of control, and engineers are racing to fix...

A private mission to rescue an ailing NASA space telescope may now need a rescue of its own. The LINK spacecraft — designed by...

The Crystal Current: Can Gemstones Unlock a New Kind of Electricity for Electromechanical Systems?

In the evolving world of science and engineering, the search for alternative materials is intensifying. From the perspective of an experienced electromechanic or an...

6.8 earthquake traps shoppers as mall collapses in Japan —‬ here’s why the seismic event was unusual

A powerful earthquake struck southwestern Japan Tuesday afternoon local time, collapsing part of a shopping mall, toppling a stone wall at the centuries-old Kumamoto...