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A Cornell University-led team of international scientists detected radio bursts from the constellation Boötes, possibly the first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system. Cornell postdoctoral researcher Jake D.…

Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis are coaxing oxygen and hydrogen directly out of briny water. The team invented an electrolyzer that can be useful on Earth to tap into oceans as viable…

Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have checked the results of their research and conclude it is correct. The team’s finding challenges how some of the Earth’s heavy elements are made—specifically ruthenium and molybdenum.…

On the first day of the final month of 2020, engineer, entrepreneur, and billionaire Elon Musk received the Axel Springer Award, presented to outstandingly innovative personalities. Past award winners include fellow billionaires Jeff…

You read that right. Space agencies are working diligently to erect modules on the Moon for human colonization. In the process, European researchers have found that human urea could be used as a plaster of sorts in the concrete of the…

Whether bigger is better or small really is beautiful, technology advances tend to start big and get smaller. We’ve seen this with cell phones, the first of which weighed 1.5 pounds and was nicknamed “The Brick” for good reason, since it…

First it was the discovery earlier this month that the galaxy known as NGC 6240 has three supermassive black holes at its core. Now theoreticians in two different fields are questioning what’s become common knowledge: planets orbit stars…

“The blackest black” is a shade coveted by optical engineers seeking to create more effective blinders to reduce glare, astronomers looking for space telescopes that can more easily spot orbiting exoplanets, and artists looking to make…

No one ever said space travel would be easy. Dual-mode rockets have traditionally used two different fuels during ascent, a high-density impulse fuel for the first half of the trajectory, and a high specific impulse fuel during the second…

Even before Robert Heinlein wrote Stranger in a Strange Land, the 1961 science fiction classic about "the Man from Mars," humans have dreamed of our nearest neighbor in the Milky Way. Exciting advances in technology promise to bring Mars…