Microwaves heat up food, but don’t necessarily kill bacteriaShutterstock/stockfoto Microwave ovens in homes, offices and laboratories are home to a surprising diversity of bacteria. Although microwaves are widely used to heat up food and sterilise samples, the radiation they emit...
Microwaves heat up food, but don’t necessarily kill bacteriaShutterstock/stockfoto Microwave ovens in homes, offices and laboratories are home to a surprising diversity of bacteria. Although microwaves are widely used to heat up food and sterilise samples, the radiation they emit...
How NASA’s Stranded Starliner Astronauts Could Fly Home with SpaceXNASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been stuck on the ISS since they launched to the station in early June. Now the space agency is close to deciding how...
The International Space Station (ISS) is reaching the end of its life, with agencies around the world planning for its demise in around 2030. This orbiting behemoth has been continuously occupied for nearly 24 years by astronauts and cosmonauts from...
After surviving building collisions, around 60 per cent of birds die in rehabilitation careJeffrey Ji/Shutterstock More than 1 billion birds in the US may die from colliding with buildings each year – a significant increase from many past estimates. Despite...
Terraforming Mars would make the planet more like Earth and better able to sustain life as we know itDETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Releasing glitter-sized iron rods into Mars’s atmosphere could warm the planet enough to melt water and support...
Blackworms are ultra-fast swimmers, and they tangle up into worm balls to protect themselves from predators – but leeches have an ingenious method of catching them called “spiral entombment” Source link...
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams on the International Space StationNASA NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams may be stuck on the International Space Station (ISS) until February 2025 after issues cropped up with the spacecraft they rode to...
Former Hurricane Debby Stalls, Causing Heavy Rains and Flooding along East CoastSome parts of the southeastern U.S. have seen more than a foot of rain from Tropical Storm Debby, and rain will keep moving up the coast in the coming...
Mathematicians are “reinventing the wheel” by giving it a new shape. Their newly imagined wheel looks like a many-dimensional guitar pick, and it could theoretically roll in ways beyond our three-dimensional understanding. This breakthrough solves a decades-old geometry problem by...
