science / science - 5 years ago
Interplanetary 'jet lag' and personality clashes could be the biggest obstacles to colonising Mars, British space experts have warned. Although scientists are still stumped about how to protect astronauts against space radiation, or the phy...
science / science - 5 years ago
Hydrogen burns with zero emissions. Couldn't we just use it in place of gasoline? The answer is more complex than you might expect.
science / science - 5 years ago
The mysterious disease in Chincoteague killed three other ponies this year and two in 2017. It's a painful disease that covers ponies with lesions.
science / science - 5 years ago
Colin O'Brady journeyed nearly a thousand miles across the frigid continent by himself, something no one has ever done before.
science / science - 5 years ago
Decades before modern textiles produced protection from weather, artillery, and bullets, soldiers relied on wool, leather and steel to keep them warm and safe.
science / science - 5 years ago
The humble tanker first entered service in 1956.
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Jazmine Barnes was shot as her family drove out of a Walmart car park in Texas. Jazmine and her mother, LaPorsha Washington, were hit by bullets. Ms Washington was taken to hospital to be treated for her injuries, but Jazmine was pronounced dead at...
science / science - 5 years ago
President Donald Trump reduced the size of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, which is a hotspot for bee diversity. Researchers are studying the impacts that the proclamation will have on these bee species.
science / science - 5 years ago
The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is coming around to the view that nuclear power has a crucial role in climate protection. The Nature Conservancy, long silent on nuclear, is calling for capacity to be expanded — enough to provide a t...
science / science - 5 years ago
New US research has found that a high intake of sugar sweetened beverages such as sweetened fruit drinks and soda may be linked to an increased risk of developing chronic kidney disease (CKD). Carried out by researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Sc...
science / science - 5 years ago
The same storm producing drenching rain and pumping warm air into the eastern United States will bring gusty thunderstorms and the potential for damaging winds over the Tennessee Valley into Monday night.
science / science - 5 years ago
Hydrogen burns with zero emissions. Couldn't we just use it in place of gasoline? The answer is more complex than you might expect.
science / science - 5 years ago
Maybe Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan was onto something when he claimed paint color affects tone.
science / science - 5 years ago
In the end, U.K. grocery delivery company Ocado Group Plc took the crown, with a 99 percent gain for the year putting it just ahead of a 98 percent advance by 2018’s IPO star Adyen NV. Ocado has long been among 2018’s top stocks, but its share price...
science / science - 5 years ago
In a year that featured catastrophic hurricanes and historic wildfires, 2018 could close out as one of the quietest and least-deadly years for tornadoes in United States history.