Science

Polaris Dawn stands to be the first commercial spaceflight mission with a spacewalk. Now, in a post on X, project representatives have finally shared details of when we can expect...

Last year, Graham Woan knew just how he wanted to spend his Christmas break: trying to solve the 2,200-year-old mystery of the oldest known “computer” in the world. Known as...

Back in 1878, photographer Eadweard Muybridge helped solve a debate about how horses gallop. Using cutting-edge technology for the time, he captured a series of images that showed they simultaneously...

Sloppy sundaes and drippy cones could become a thing of the past as the wonders of science have uncovered a way to make ice cream nearly melt-proof. The innovation comes...

The good news for Boeing’s Starliner capsule is that it finally brought humans to low-earth orbit. The issue is that it hasn’t gotten them down yet — and it may...

It’s estimated that almost 80 percent of the people who live in North America have never seen the Milky Way. That might sound like a strange report, especially since we...

With heat waves continuing to hit different parts of the world, folks everywhere will undoubtedly be looking for ways to cool down quickly. But what if I told you that...

Scientists in South Africa have been stunned to discover that termite mounds that are still inhabited in an arid region of the country are more than 30,000 years old, meaning...

A deadly and fast-spreading new strain of mpox, the disease caused by the monkeypox virus, has global health officials ringing alarm bells. The new virus is “undoubtedly the most dangerous...

A nearly indestructible moss that can survive bursts of gamma rays and liquid nitrogen may be one of the keys to Mars colonization, scientists have discovered. The moss, which can...