Dog-like robot made by students jumps, flips and trots

Students developed a dog-like robot that can navigate tough terrain — and they want you to…

Big City Life Awaits Drones in Final Year of NASA Research

The city landscape holds unique challenges for flying drones, and NASA is taking these on in…

Pluto has an underground ocean kept warm by a layer of gassy ice

Pluto may harbour an ocean that’s kept liquid by an extra layer of gas molecules trapped…

ISS Daily Summary Report – 5/20/2019

Multi-purpose Variable-G Platform (MVP) Cell-01: Over the weekend, the crew exchanged nutrients for the Cell-01 Experiment…

Counter-intuitive climate change solution

A seemingly counterintuitive approach — converting one greenhouse gas into another — holds promise for returning…

How Earth's mantle is like a Jackson Pollock painting

New research paints an intricate picture of Earth’s mantle as a geochemically diverse mosaic, far different…

Giant impact caused difference between Moon's hemispheres

The stark difference between the Moon’s heavily-cratered farside and the lower-lying open basins of the Earth-facing…

Gas insulation could be protecting an ocean inside Pluto

Computer simulations provide compelling evidence that an insulating layer of gas hydrates could keep a subsurface…

Thinking outside the box: 'Seeing' clearer and deeper into live organs

Scientists using a unique approach have developed a new biomedical imaging contrast agent. They say the…

Anxious people quicker to flee danger

By better understanding anxiety circuits in our brain, researchers may one day learn what goes awry…