They are more focused, intelligent and less bothered about fitting in, say scientists.

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Submitted on June 20th 2017 by aj0690

To be a professional cyclist, one must have guts, microbiologist Lauren Peterson says, and she doesn't just mean that in the metaphorical sense.

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Submitted on June 21st 2017 by kxh with 1 comments

Airplanes can't fly because it's too hot? That's crazy. No, not if you understand the science behind it.

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Submitted on June 21st 2017 by Guardian with 1 comments

In 2015, a team of Scottish scientists announced they had found a way to slow the speed of light. By sending photons through a special mask, the researchers altered their shape.

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Submitted on June 19th 2017 by Splitfish

The gene-editing technology called CRISPR has its origins as a bacterial immune system against viruses, a feature which could be turned against them in the future.

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Submitted on June 22nd 2017 by rhingo

How to see Bailey's Beads, the diamond ring, and maybe even the elusive shadow bands.

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Submitted on June 22nd 2017 by gladsdotter

In what European science chief Carlos Moedas calls a "life-changing" move, E.U. member states today agreed on an ambitious new open-access (OA) target. All scientific papers should be freely available by 2020, the Competitiveness Council—a gathering of ministers of science, innovation, trade, and industry—concluded after a 2-day meeting in Brussels. But some observers are warning that the goal will be difficult to achieve.

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Submitted on June 17th 2017 by ticktack

The renowned physicist Stephen Hawking is working on a spacecraft that can travel at a fifth of the speed of light – meaning it could reach the nearest star and send back images of a suspected ‘Second Earth’ within 25 years – in a bid to save humanity. In a speech at the Starmus Festival, Professor Hawking warned humans must soon colonise another planet if we are to survive.

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Submitted on June 21st 2017 by Apolatia

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to go into space when she flew Vostok 6 in 1963. She spent almost three days in space and orbited Earth 48 times. That was her only trip into space. Tereshkova later toured the world to promote Soviet science and became involved in Soviet politics.

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Submitted on June 18th 2017 by socialiguana

Whether it’s giving to charity or helping a stranger with directions, we often assist others even when there’s no benefit to us or our family members. Signs of such true altruism have been spotted in some animals, but have been difficult to pin down in our closest evolutionary relatives. Now, in a pair of studies, researchers show that chimpanzees will give up a treat in order to help out an unrelated chimp, and that chimps...

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Submitted on June 20th 2017 by hedman

Society’s push toward humanizing AI could have the unintended consequence of dehumanizing actual humans.

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Submitted on June 22nd 2017 by drunkenninja

The moon influences life in a surprising and subtle way: with its light. By Ferris Jabr.

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Submitted on June 18th 2017 by AdelleChattre with 1 comments

A House Armed Services panel intends to create a new fighting force called Space Corps within the Air Force to improve the U.S. military’s ability to address threats in space, according to a summary of the Strategic Forces panel’s forthcoming fiscal 2018 mark.

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Submitted on June 21st 2017 by grandtheftsoul

From Donald Trump's face to crabs to jelly doughnuts, entertaining images from Mars amuse scientists and excite conspiracy theorists and alien fans.

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Submitted on June 21st 2017 by aj0690

If you look up Uranus and Neptune in an encyclopedia, there's a good chance the pictures you see will be about 30 years old. In the late 1970s, the twin Voyager spacecraft launched on a grand tour of the solar system, taking advantage of a rare planetary alignment that only happens every 175 years. Voyager 2 flew past Uranus in January 1986, and Neptune in August 1989. The probe was traveling too fast, and lacked the fuel, to slow down and enter orbit.

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Submitted on June 21st 2017 by Apolatia

Millions of people will soon travel to a narrow strip in America to witness a rare event: a total solar eclipse. On 21 August, many will look up to the sky to witness this phenomenon – will you be one of them? In the following shortened excerpt from "Totality: The Great American Eclipses of 2017 and 2024," learn what types of eyewear you should be using to watch the Sun disappear, when you can do away with eye protection completely, and other ways to best view this event.

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Submitted on June 21st 2017 by gladsdotter

An ambitious new carbon capture project uses algae to pull carbon dioxide out of the air.

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Submitted on June 22nd 2017 by drunkenninja

We now accept culture drove our extraordinary success as a species, but how? A compelling new account brings us up to speed with the story so far

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Submitted on June 18th 2017 by archmagician

A specific type of irritable bowel syndrome is associated with exhaustion of the immune system in patients, researchers have discovered for the first time.

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Submitted on June 20th 2017 by Gozzin

Nobody promised space travel would be easy. Well, nobody did until now. Billionaire Elon Musk is planning to make sure everyone who takes a SpaceX trip to Mars will be traveling in style, with “movies, lecture halls, cabins, and a restaurant.”

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Submitted on June 22nd 2017 by grandtheftsoul