Coronavirus: Sir John Houghton dies of suspected Covid-19

Sir John Houghton, who accepted the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, died on Wednesday aged 88. …

Jean-Marie Luton, 1942-2020

Jean-Marie Luton passed away on 16 April 2020 at the age of 77. He was ESA’s…

Week in images: 13-17 April 2020

Week in images: 13-17 April 2020 Discover our week through the lens Click…

Jessica Meir and Her Crewmates Return Safely from the Space Station

NASA astronaut Jessica Meir gives a thumbs up after she, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and NASA…

Hubble Probes Colorful Galaxy

The blue speckles seen scattered across galaxy NGC 2906 are clusters of massive, young stars, which…

New app helps combat climate change

A few years ago, Dr. Arghavan Louhghalam, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UMass…

Advance could enable remote control of soft robots

Soft materials, such as rubber or polymers that can endure drastic changes to their shape, are…

Genetic tracing 'barcode' is rapidly revealing COVID-19's journey and evolution

Drexel University researchers have reported a method to quickly identify and label mutated versions of the…

Water heaters' methane leaks are high, but fixable

Natural gas escapes from water heating systems through leaks and because some is not combusted by…

Image: Mapping Chernobyl fires from space

With an outbreak of wildfires recently threatening the closed Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the…