Science

South Dakota crews excavate 800,000 tons of rock to build world's largest neutrino detector

New technology helps robots understand instructions without electricity

NASA laser-based data transmission demonstrates serviceable internet 290 million miles from Earth

NASA powers down science instrument to conserve Voyager 2 power supply

Artificial plant purifies indoor air and doubles as a power source for small electronics

Big if True: Cyanobacteria were the first organisms on Earth to develop the ability to produce oxygen. Through photosynthesis, they convert light into chemical energy and oxygen. According to a team of US researchers, cyanobacteria could even serve as a powerful air filtration system when integrated into a new "artificial plant" concept.

Scientists discover that sand on Mars and the Moon can be turned into building blocks for space settlements

Engineers create a real-life tractor beam, but it only manipulates tiny particles

Quantum physics experiment leads to bizarre "negative time" phenomenon

Aliens could be driving themselves to extinction with climate change, study suggests

Scientists discover exoplanet orbiting Barnard's Star, just six light years from Earth

Breakthrough material from LG Chem could prevent thermal runaway in batteries

China unveils sleek new spacesuit for ambitious 2030 Moon landing goal

Researchers convert corn waste into sustainable jet fuel

Scientists create edible transistor using an unlikely material: toothpaste additive

WTF?! A humble toothpaste additive has provided the key to a major breakthrough in the field of edible electronics. Researchers have successfully built the first fully edible transistor using copper phthalocyanine – a crystalline blue pigment commonly employed as a whitening agent in toothpaste formulations.

European Space Agency mission will intentionally burn next satellite to collect reentry data

How engineering saved Tampa General Hospital from Hurricane Helene's storm surge

Russian cosmonaut sets new record by spending over 3 years in space

Ocean acidification is approaching a new critical phase, scientists warn

Brain damage linked to increased likelihood of religious fundamentalism, new study finds

Scientists use explosive X-rays to test viability of nuking incoming asteroids

Why it matters: The concept of launching nukes into space to knock asteroids off course or destroy them completely may not sound foreign thanks to numerous sci-fi films popularizing it. But the lack of atmosphere in space nerfs nukes' power considerably, so the idea isn't so easy to pull off. Now, researchers at Sandia National Labs have come up with a new way to compensate for this shortcoming.

Earth may have once had a Saturn-like ring system, new evidence suggests

Beyond light pollution: Starlink satellites are also interfering with radio signals

Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years

Neuralink secures FDA approval to test futuristic device that could enable vision in the blind

Transparent solar cell technology could allow smartphones and cars to self-charge