NASA’s Curiosity rover, currently operating in the Gale crater on Mars, is revealing new aspects of the planet’s climatic transition, which has gone from conditions possibly conducive to life – with evidence of…
Microbes were recently identified living within sealed fractures in rocks estimated to be 2 billion years old. The samples were extracted from the Bushveld Igneous Complex, located in South Africa, a region known…
By Amber Dance You’ve probably heard of the microbiome — the hordes of bacteria and other tiny life forms that live in our guts. Well, it turns out those bacteria have viruses that…
A collaborative effort between cave divers and scientists has led to the discovery of a previously unknown assemblage of extinct monkey fossils located deep within the submerged passages of a Caribbean cave. This…
Adam Zewe | MIT News MIT researchers have developed a miniature, chip-based “tractor beam,” like the one that captures the Millennium Falconin the film “Star Wars,” that could someday help biologists and clinicians study DNA,…
A funerary chamber dating back approximately 4,000 years, belonging to the daughter of an ancient Egyptian governor, was recently discovered in Asiut. This discovery took place in the context of the largest non-royal…
The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) has introduced a newly developed lightweight spacesuit, the result of four years of intensive research and development. According to a report by state broadcaster CCTV, this spacesuit…
A Spain-based startup has achieved a significant milestone by demonstrating the efficacy of its graphene-based brain-computer interface (BCI) in enabling precise tumor surgeries. INBRAIN Neuroelectronics, a company focused on developing advanced brain-computer interface…
Over a span of more than 13 years and accumulating over 500 terabytes of data, the most detailed infrared map of our galaxy has now been completed. This project, the largest ever undertaken…
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Mars wasn’t always the cold desert we see today. There’s increasing evidence that water once flowed on the Red Planet’s surface, billions of years ago. And if there was water,…