Science

Summary:Researchers are revisiting their views on the relative dangers soft and hard atherosclerotic plaque deposits pose to heart health. Findings of a new study may be a “game-changer” for determining who’s at risk of a heart attack, they say. Researchers are revisiting their views on […]

A rogue planet spotted wandering through space on its own may be even stranger than scientists expected, after new analysis with NASA’s Spitzer space telescope. The object, CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9, is 100 light years away from Earth – and was spotted in 2012. Scientists are now […]

FULL STORY X-ray tomographic picture (false colors) of fossil thread-like red algae. Credit: Stefan Bengtson; CCAL Scientists at the Swedish Museum of Natural History have found fossils of 1.6 billion-year-old probable red algae. The spectacular finds, publishing on 14 March in the open access journal […]

Scientists and lawyers speak different languages, but there is common ground. Scientists working in a multi-institutional team with legal authorities have discovered that brain imaging can determine whether someone is acting in a state of knowledge about a crime. LL STORY In a brain imaging […]

Since the early 1990s, space scientists have known that the sun’s surface rotates more slowly than its interior. But they haven’t been able to pinpoint why. Now, astrophysicists at the University of Hawaii say they have a hunch. They’ve identified that the light from the […]

NASA has released details of plans for a mission to land a spacecraft on Europa, a moon of Jupiter. The mission, planned for 2024, would analyze Europa for signs of life, potential human colonization, and to better characterize the surface and subsurface of the watery […]

Scientists have developed sensor technology for a robotic prosthetic arm that detects signals from nerves in the spinal cord. This is an image of the sensor system and robotic prosthetic operated by a patient who took part in the laboratory experiments as part of the […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) director called a human colony on the Moon ‘more or less fact’ in a Wednesday press conference in Paris due to the enormous amount of work being poured into a Moon village by numerous space agencies. Johann-Dietrich Wörner, who became […]

Record warm temperatures were seen all over the world in 2016, including the Arctic Temperature data for 2016 shows it is likely to have edged ahead of 2015 as the world’s warmest year. Data from Nasa and the UK Met Office shows temperatures were about […]