Elon Musk announced a humanoid robot designed to help with those repetitive, boring tasks people hate doing. Musk suggested it could run to the grocery store...
Mars is bombarded with radiation. Without a protective magnetic shield and a thick atmosphere like Earth’s, radiation from space has a nearly unimpeded path to the...
Ask any cat person to describe their feline friend, and they’ll likely affectionately say “jerkface”. Cat people also know, however, that each little fuzzy jerkface is...
As our eyes on the sky grow ever more sensitive, we’re going to find more and more things we’ve never seen before. Such is the case...
You may well have seen sci-fi movies or television shows where the protagonist asks to zoom in on an image and enhance the results – revealing...
Global warming is already affecting people’s health so much that emergency action on climate change cannot be put on hold while the world deals with the...
NASA is commonly thought of as America’s space agency, but its name also emphasizes another research area. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is also America’s...
The Sun is always showering Earth with a mist of magnetized particles known as solar wind. For the most part, our planet’s magnetic shield blocks this electric wind from doing...
When you know you’re being watched by somebody, it’s hard to pretend they’re not there. It can be difficult to block them out and keep focus,...
We thought we had it all figured out. When a star of a certain mass ceases nuclear fusion, dies and becomes a white dwarf, all that’s...