US watching Chinese rocket's erratic re-entry: Pentagon

The Pentagon said Wednesday it is following the trajectory of a Chinese rocket expected to make…

Giant sequoia still smoldering from 2020 California wildfire

A giant sequoia has been found smoldering and smoking in a part of Sequoia National Park…

Ice core chemistry study expands insight into sea ice variability in Southern Hemisphere

Sea ice cover in the Southern Hemisphere is extremely variable, from summer to winter and from…

Open source tool can help identify gerrymandering in voting maps

With state legislatures nationwide preparing for the once-a-decade redrawing of voting districts, a research team has…

First member of ill-fated 1845 Franklin expedition is identified by DNA analysis

The identity of the skeletal remains of a member of the 1845 Franklin expedition has been…

Blue Origin will fly first crew to space in July

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin will send its first crew to space on July 20 and is…

Researchers propose repurposing tabletop sensors to search for dark matter

Scientists are certain that dark matter exists. Yet, after more than 50 years of searching, they…

Rapid rovers, speedy sands: Fast-tracking terrain interaction modeling

Granular materials, such as sand and gravel, are an interesting class of materials. They can display…

New, almost non-destructive archaeogenetic sampling method developed

An Austrian-American research team (University of Vienna, Department Evolutionary Anthropology and Harvard Medical School, Department of…

Magnetic material breaks super-fast switching record

Researchers at CRANN (The Centre for Research on Adaptive Nanostructures and Nanodevices), and the School of…