Play3min 34secScientists scanning the seafloor discover a long-lost Stone Age 'megastructure' February 22, 2024 5:00 AMBy Ari Daniel The more than half mile long wall, called the Blinkerwall, was likely used by Stone Age hunter-gatherers to herd reindeer toward a shooting blind.
NASA is looking for people to test out its Mars simulator for a yearFebruary 20, 2024 11:16 PMBy Ayana Archie The agency is accepting applicants for the second cohort of its Mars simulator mission. Participants will live and work from a 3D-printed, 1,700-square-foot facility at NASA's Houston space center.
Watch out, a dead satellite is falling back to EarthFebruary 20, 2024 2:17 PMBy James Doubek There's a one in a billion chance it could hit somebody on the head. Europe's space agency doesn't know exactly when or where it will land.
Japan's space agency says it may now have clues about the origins of the moonFebruary 15, 2024 4:03 AMBy The Associated Press An unmanned lunar spacecraft has captured and transmitted data analyzing lunar rocks, an achievement that could help provide clues about the origin of the moon, a Japan space agency official said
A tiny robot on the space station will simulate remote-controlled surgery up thereFebruary 10, 2024 1:30 PMBy Juliana Kim A robotic assistant recently arrived at the International Space Station to perform a simulated surgery that will be controlled by a surgeon 250 miles away on Earth.
Science experiments and endless enthusiasm led a physics professor to TikTok stardomFebruary 5, 2024 5:06 PMBy Emma Bowman Videos of Tatiana Erukhimova's enthusiastic teaching style have gone viral on social media. The secret to her success? It didn't happen overnight.
Warm weather forces park officials to suspend Isle Royale wolf count for first time in decadesFebruary 1, 2024 3:20 PMBy The Associated PressThe National Park Service suspended the count Tuesday out of concerns that warm weather has left the ice surrounding the island unsafe for the ski-planes the researchers use in their surveys. Regional temperatures have been above freezing for the last week.
Need to track animals around the world? Tap into the 'spider-verse,' scientists sayFebruary 1, 2024 4:30 AMBy Ari Daniel Spiderwebs can capture environmental DNA, or eDNA, from vertebrate animals in their area, potentially making them a useful tool in animal monitoring, tracking and conservation.
Play3min 47secThat giant extinct shark, Megalodon? Maybe it wasn't so megaJanuary 26, 2024 4:20 AMBy Ari Daniel The ancient extinct shark that starred in the film The Meg is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But there's debate over what it really looked like.
Play8min 14secHis spacecraft sprung a leak. Then this NASA astronaut accidentally broke a recordJanuary 25, 2024 4:01 AMBy Ari Shapiro , Kai McNamee , and Justine Kenin NASA astronaut Frank Rubio holds the record for the longest U.S. space flight, but he wasn't trying to earn that title.