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Ever since its discovery by the NASA New Horizons team in 2015, Pluto's 'icy heart', a bright, two-lobed feature on its surface has attracted researchers. Of particular interest is the heart's western lobe, informally named Sputnik…

An update to the timelapse feature of Google Earth's satellite imagery app has been released, and it’s a great way to see the rapid pace of urban development and public infrastructure projects like the San Francisco Bay Bridge. It’s a cool…

Satellite tags have long been used by scientists to track blue whales along the West Coast, learning how the largest animals on the planet find enough small krill to feed on to support their enormous size. Now researchers from NOAA…

Biologist Duncan Irschick helped create Geckskin, a super-adhesive that mimics the mechanics of gecko feet, a few years ago. In January, he developed the Beastcam, a portable camera array that can snap high-resolution, full-color 3D images…

About 4.6 billion years ago, a cloud of gas and dust that eventually formed our solar system was disturbed. The ensuing gravitational collapse formed the proto-Sun with a surrounding disc where the planets were born. A supernova - a star…

Brain imaging exams performed on high school football players after just one season revealed changes in both the gray and white matter that correlated with exposure to head impacts, according to a new study that will be presented today at…

It’s a well-known fact that water, at sea level, starts to boil at a temperature of 212°F, or 100°C. And scientists have long observed that when water is confined in very small spaces, its boiling and freezing points can change a bit,…

NASA scientists and engineers launched RapidScat toward the orbiting International Space Station, 250 miles above the Earth’s surface, with a few objectives in mind: improve weather forecasting on Earth, provide cross-calibration for all…

A team of researchers from the iDAPT labs at Toronto Rehabilitation Institute-University Health Network are dedicated to keeping Canadians safer this winter by offering evidence-based ratings on footwear that may reduce the risk of slips…