Category: Science

An astronaut who spent six months aboard the ISS was accused of having impersonated his ex-wife in order to consult their joint bank account from space. It could be the very first offense committed in space. An offense committed aboard the ISS? According to a New York Times article published on August 24, 2019, American […]

The atmospheric future of the world is being written in the melting of glaciers in Greenland, says David Holland, an environmental scientist at the University of New York. It is here, in the icy plains of Greenland, where glaciers are melting and collapsing thundering over the sea. David Holland, an environmental scientist at the University […]

The supermassive black hole of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A *, suddenly lit up last May. Astronomers have as yet no clear idea of what happened. At the heart of almost every major galaxy lies a supermassive black hole. Some are very active, and others – like ours – are relatively calm. Hence the surprise […]

Jonathan “Seamus” Blackley is not just an iconic figure in the video game industry (he is one of the main architects of the Xbox console). He is also passionate about physical sciences, aviation, jazz, history, and baking. He has recently launched a challenge like no other. Accompanied by the Egyptologist Serena Love and the microbiologist […]

American author and Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison has died. He was 88 years old. Morrison is the first black woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Toni Morrison died at a private hospital in New York. He had been in treatment for some time. The cause of death is unclear. Toni Morrison rose […]

US researchers recorded in slow motion the moment when the ants stung their victims, piercing them with their lancet and injecting them with poison. The registry confirmed that what causes pain is not the bite, but that it is the poison that they inject their victim through a small lancet located between their tongs. The […]

New analyzes by researchers at the University of Cologne suggest that the Moon was formed 50 million years after the formation of the solar system. That’s 100 million years earlier than we thought. According to the prevailing theory, the primitive Earth collided with an object about the size of Mars about 6,500 kilometers in diameter, […]

Scientists from California have presented for the first time this Monday the genome of the Komodo dragon, the world’s most giant lizard, which despite being cold-blooded can adapt its metabolism in a very similar way to mammals, which It gives you high speed. By analyzing their genetic configuration by studying their DNA, researchers from the […]

Billionaire Elon Musk reported on Tuesday night that his company Neuralink is making progress in an interface that connects the brain with computers, which is expected to begin to be tested in people next year. “We can make a complete brain-machine interface,” Musk said with members of Neuralink at an event in San Francisco to […]

Towards new horizons Many rovers have allowed us to explore new worlds. Like the Moon or Mars, for example. Incredible discoveries have been made with these four-wheeled machines, but their travel capabilities are still limited. To expand our horizons in a low-gravity environment, young Swiss researchers from ETH Zurich and ZHAW Zurich are developing SpaceBok, […]