Category: Science

A team of paleontologists announces the discovery of a hadrosaur or “duck-billed dinosaur” in Africa. This interesting premiere raises the even more fascinating idea that these dinosaurs crossed the sea to reach this continent. The Hadrosauridae, more commonly known as “duck-billed dinosaurs”, is a very common extinct family of ornithopod dinosaurs. We know from fossil […]

SpaceX’s Starship spacecraft could help clean up Earth’s orbit between missions to the moon or to Mars, says the president of the company. In this case, it would be about desorbing some dead rocket bodies, left by others. The problem of space debris Earth’s orbit is currently polluted with more than 100 million space debris, […]

A few weeks ago, a migratory bird reached New Zealand from Alaska without taking a single break. The record-breaking flight lasted eleven days. The red-haired godwit (Limosa lapponica) is a migratory bird known to fly several thousand kilometers non-stop. These wading birds spend their summers in the arctic regions of the northern hemisphere, where they […]

Thousands of space debris are present in low orbit. On the ground, scientists calculate their trajectory to avoid possible collisions. While these calculations are usually only possible for a few hours at night, researchers have developed a technique to observe the debris during the day and without a time limit. A revolution in observation? Since […]

A collaboration between researchers at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) and McMaster University led to the diagnosis of malignant cancer in a dinosaur. It’s a first! The animal in question is a Centrosaurus apertus, a horned dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous Period, 76 to 77 million years ago. Discovered in 1989 in Alberta (Canada), […]

A team of British researchers has developed a new robot capable of working autonomously in the laboratory. This high-performance machine is not intended to replace humans, but to relieve them of repeated manipulations. Andrew Cooper and his team from the Department of Chemistry and Materials at the University of Liverpool (England) have been developing for […]

A study details the discovery in Iran of a new species of spider with a red and white pattern on its back. The researchers, seeing the smile of the “Joker”, just named it after Joaquin Phoenix, who played the character in the cinema. Putting his green hair aside, the Joker, DC Comics’ iconic villain and […]

Elon Musk was a guest on Joe Rogan’s world-famous podcast on Thursday, May 7, guests such as Robert Downey Jr. and our own Rico Verhoeven also passed by. The last time Musk was a guest, he caused some controversy within his companies because he started smoking a joint live, this time he took it a […]

NASA or the United States Space Agency (US) will work with actor Tom Cruise to make the first film located in space. Reporting from The Verge, Wednesday, NASA administrator, Jim Bridenstine said, this film will take pictures at the International Space Station. However, it is unclear the details of this film project, including whether Cruise’s […]

The Hubble Space Telescope recently captured the sharpest images to date of Comet C / 2019 Y4 (ATLAS) falling apart. Spotted for the first time on December 28, 2019, the comet ATLAS had promised us a great show, with a maximum of brightness initially planned for the end of May. However, the comet suddenly began […]