Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. In a few weeks they will find their way out of the underground, their red eyes glowing, their deafening song filling the air. It will be a gathering of creatures the likes of which have… Read More »
Often, when scientists conduct research on a particular social problem, they hope that their work will help solve this larger problem. But translating findings into long-lasting, community-focused solutions is much more difficult than most expect. It seems intuitive that scientists studying living organisms, microbes, and ecosystems could apply their findings to combat food shortages, keep… Read More »
COLORADO SPRINGS — Astrobotic’s next lunar mission will send not one but two rovers to Earth’s closest neighbor. The Pittsburgh-based company plans to launch the Griffin lunar lander’s first mission atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket later this year. Griffin’s primary mission is to deliver NASA’s ice-chasing VIPER rover to the Moon’s south polar region,… Read More »
After six decades of launches, the last Delta rocket lifted off on Tuesday, April 9, ushering in a change in the way the United States sends satellites, interplanetary probes and spacecraft into Earth orbit. United Launch Alliance (ULA) has fired its last Delta IV Heavy rocket to launch NROL-70, a stealth payload for the US… Read More »
Ending an era in U.S. rocketry, United Launch Alliance fired its 16th and final triple-core Delta 4 Heavy Tuesday and launched a secret spy satellite in the final flurry of a storied family of rockets dating back to the dawn of the space age. The Heavy’s three hydrogen-fueled RS-68A first stage engines ignited with a… Read More »
Seven studies by researchers at the prestigious Dana-Farber Cancer Institute were retracted in the past two months after a scientist blogger claimed that images used in the studies were manipulated or copied. The retractions are the latest development in a months-long controversy over research done at the Boston-based institute, which is affiliated with Harvard Medical… Read More »
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskids@theconversation.com. If the James Webb telescope was 10 times more powerful, could we see the beginning of time? – Sam H., age 12, Prosper, Texas The James Webb Space Telescope, or… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Found high in the Tyrolean Alps in 1991, Ötzi the Iceman had dark skin and eyes, and was probably bald. His extraordinarily well-preserved remains, frozen under the ice for approximately 5,300 years, revealed 61 tattoos… Read More »
As a scientist, laboratory work can sometimes become monotonous. However, in 2017, while I was doing my doctorate. When I was a paleobiology student at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, I heard a joyful exclamation from across the room. Kirsty Penkman, head of the North East Amino Acid Racemization laboratory at the… Read More »
Change Your Mindset is a monthly series from CNN’s Mindfulness, But Better team. We talk to experts about how things can be done differently to live a better life. Since time immemorial, people have tried their best to cheat death. Today, as revolutionary developments transform science fiction materials into daily reality, are we closer to… Read More »