The likelihood of ‘city killer’ asteroid 2024-YR4 crashing to Earth in 2032 has increased to 3.1%. Travelling at 17 ...

With less annual rainfall than 1 mm per year, Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the driest places in the world. The main water ...

Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life ...

Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging (IVV) and Albstadt-Sigmaringen University ...

Those tiny colorful dinosaur toys that grow bigger underwater might hold the key to protecting astronauts as they journey through space.

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Where would carbon-based life be without carbon? There are 118 known chemical elements, but carbon is the fourth most ...

It's a key problem that will need to be addressed if humans are to attempt deep-space, long-duration missions. Not only is radiation exposure a dangerous health risk to humans, but it also poses a ...

The weather phenomena are common for California winters, but they could cause dangerous debris flows or mudslides in recently ...

Hydrogel is something that most of us are familiar with from it being used in contact lenses, burn dressings, and hair gel.

Researchers at Ghent University in Belgium are working on the development of advanced 3D-printed hydrogels for radiation ...

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