Female Mathematician Receives Highest NGS Award for Role in Space Exploration
Katherine Johnson, a female mathematician, whose calculations made space exploration possible will posthumously receive the National Geographic Society Hubbard medal for 2020. This is coming...
Ancient spider fossils reveal details of arachnid evolution
An ancient fossil from the Cretaceous period has been found, and it belongs to an eight-legged arachnid with a tail similar to a scorpion’s...
Juno spacecraft will take firts close-up pictures of Jupiter
NASA's Juno spacecraft will get a first close look at Jupiter this Saturday. At 8.51 EDT on August 27, Juno will zoom closer than...
See the Snow Moon, a penumbral eclipse & comet 45P on...
Those who enjoy watching the various events that take place in the night sky will have quite a party on Friday night when a...
Fossil footprints suggest humans used to hunt giant sloths
A newly discovered fossil shows that about 11,000 years ago, giant 7-feet tall (2.1 meters) sloths roamed the earth while being stalked by ancient...
US Air Force launches the GEO-3 to improve missile alert net
The Air Force plans to launch a military satellite this evening and its live streaming the event via YouTube, beginning at 7:26 p.m. EST....
UN report backs India to dominate working-age population
On 29th April, 2016, the United Nations Development Programme released their Human Resource Development Programme. The report highlighted the fact that India will be...
2018 might have 20 or more big earthquakes, scientists say
American scientists have found a correlation between the Earth’s rotation speed and the ratio of big earthquakes that occur every year. Our planet has...
NASA found the small spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 lost since 2009
During the past week, NASA found the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 that went silent since 2009. NASA has developed a new ground-based radar technique to...
Oxford researchers aim to create robots to grow human skin
This month, biomedical researchers Pierre-Alexis Mouthuy and Andrew Carr published an article about using robots for regenerative medicine. The pair explains that robotics have...