The oldest known black hole — a 13.2 billion-year-old ‘behemoth’ — has been discovered by scientists. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-Ray Observatory spent the past year working … Read More
On June 16, 1963, Russia edged ahead in the Space Race with the United States when 26-year-old Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go into space. Soon after, the … Read More
Dozens of famous bird species will lose their familiar names in the coming months and years as part of a nationwide effort to eliminate monikers “clouded by racism” and to … Read More
Astronomers have discovered an eight billion-year-old radio signal. The mysterious “fast radio burst” — identified as FRB 20220610A — lasted only a millisecond, but released the amount of energy our … Read More
No salt on this margarita, please. Scientists honored the late Jimmy Buffett by naming a newly discovered species of marine snail living in the Florida Keys after one of his … Read More
Nobels season is resuming on Tuesday with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm awarding the prize in physics. The physics prize comes a day after Hungarian-American Katalin Karikó and … Read More
The ability to regrow your own teeth could be just around the corner. A team of scientists, led by a Japanese pharmaceutical startup, are getting set to start human trials … Read More
In a medical first for the U.K., surgeons in Oxford have successfully performed a womb transplant between two sisters. The complicated procedure is a form of fertility treatment expected to … Read More
Austin, Texas – A team from the University of Texas at Austin developed a mug-sized, cube-shaped device that can use battery-generated electricity to eliminate bacteria from contaminated water. The new device is a … Read More
A flying car that was inspired by Marty McFly in Back to the Future has been given special airworthiness certification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), bringing us one step … Read More
