Students and researchers from McMaster University saw years of hard work finally become reality when their special satellite onboard a SpaceX rocket successfully launched into orbit. Mike Drolet explains how the data they gather from the satellite could help keep astronauts healthy, and how this mission is a small part of a big push to get young Canadians involved in space exploration.
In February last year, surrounded by takeaway pizza, a group of students at a tiny liberal arts college in the US sat watching Google Maps. Earlier that day they’d unearthed a TikTok video showing a column of tanks positioned just outside the Russian city of Belgorod. Now, they looked on as a series of traffic-jam alerts turned the roads between Belgorod and the Ukrainian border red.
It is one of the biggest black holes ever found, scientists say.
Four specimens of the newfound species were captured in nets about 80 to 100 feet underwater, researchers said.
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / HandoutLast October, astronomers notched another record for the books when they observed the brightest-ever gamma ray burst ever seen, which released an explosion that traveled over 1.9 billion light-years to sweep through the solar system. A follow-up investigation unveils new secrets about the explosion in unprecedented detail—giving scientists a better understanding of what happened and how such an event rollicked through space.The gamma ray burst “gave
A large hole capable of generating solar winds north of a million miles per hour has appeared on the surface of the sun for the second time in a week. It is known as a coronal hole - and this one is 20 times bigger than Earth. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spotted it, and it could send superfast solar winds of 1.8 million miles per hour hurtling towards our planet as early as Thursday.
Scientists have analysed the brightest gamma-ray burst ever recorded, which swept through our solar system late last year – overwhelming gamma-ray detectors on satellites.
The module completed the almost two-hour return from the ISS without a crew, landing in the Kazakh steppe on Tuesday afternoon, a few hundred kilometres from the Baikonur cosmodrome, home to Russia's space launches. The landing was broadcast online by the Russian space agency Roscosmos. A significant coolant leak was discovered in the capsule last December - caused by a 0.8-millimetre hole in its outer skin.
It was 60 years ago, on September 12, 1962, that President John F Kennedy pledged to put a man on the Moon before that decade was through. Now NASA has stated that humans will be living and working there within the next 10 years.
The burial site, found at Sagalassos in Turkey, contained 41 bent nails that were believed to have formed a magical barrier between the dead and the living.
Layer after layer of the city’s history emerged from the ancient trash heap.
The first photograph documenting the Earth’s curvature was taken on November 11, 1935, from the Explorer II high-altitude balloon.
A field that has long grown tomatoes, peppers and onions now looks like a wind-whipped ocean as farmer Don Cameron seeks to capture the runoff from a freakishly wet year in California to replenish the groundwater basin that is his only source to water his crops. Taking some tomatoes out of production for a year is an easy choice if it means boosting future water supplies for his farm about 35 miles (56 kilometers) southwest of Fresno. He’s pumping 300 acre-feet a day — enough to supply hundreds
Boeing’s first launch of astronauts has been delayed again, this time until July. NASA announced the latest postponement Wednesday, saying more time is needed to certify and test the Starliner capsule's parachute system before the spacecraft blasts off with two test pilots. Additional software testing is also underway.
Are tech companies moving too fast in rolling out powerful artificial intelligence technology that could one day outsmart humans? That's the conclusion of a group of prominent computer scientists and other tech industry notables such as Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak who are calling for a 6-month pause to consider the risks. Their petition published Wednesday is a response to San Francisco startup OpenAI's recent release of GPT-4, a more advanced successor to its widely-used AI cha
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / PexelsIt should go without saying by now: You should get your shots. However, your traditional syringe only goes so far. Sometimes, it’s helpful to get an even more precise inoculation on a cellular level. This type of injection could help pave the way for new, more effective biomedical treatments like cancer and gene therapy.In a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature, researchers developed a bacterial “syrigine” that’s capable of injecting p
Scientists at Durham University in the UK used the way gravity bends light at great distances to pinpoint the size of the black hole.
Two huge coronal holes have appeared on the sun this month, spewing 1.8 million mph solar winds towards the Earth. Here's what they are, how they form and their impact on our planet.
The carnivorous creatures lived as early as 8 million years ago.
Scientists have developed a sensor that can test for COVID and flu at the same time and tell which one you have within 10 seconds. "They can improve the ability to detect very small quantities of basically anything that needs to be sensed," he said.
The very notion of resurrecting the long-extinct woolly mammoth was the stuff of fantasy not that long ago, but scientists are already working on ways to achieve something close to that, using DNA from soft-tissue in frozen mammoth remains and meshing it with that of a modern-day elephant. Vow, an Australian cultivated food company that creates meat in a laboratory setting from animal cells, says that it has used advanced molecular engineering to resurrect the woolly mammoth in meatball form, by combining original mammoth DNA with fragments of an African elephant's DNA.
