Rocket Lab is an American aerospace company with a subsidiary in New Zealand, whose mission is to develop cost-effective light commercial orbital launch services. Electron is a disposable launch vehicle or…
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Called os cordis, this bone is at the heart of very few animal species, and has now been found in some chimpanzees, which could be important for monitoring their health and conservation: wild chimpanzees are in p…
More than 4,000 scientists and some scientific organizations, as well as universities and academic journals such as Nature and others, have stopped research activities this June 10 to reflect and take action on purpose…
According to a new study from Dartmouth in collaboration with Amherst College, people are aware of color to a surprisingly limited extent in their peripheral vision. The findings are published in Proceedings of the…
According to data from NASA's last Cassini mission, the moon Titan is moving away from Saturn one hundred times faster than thought.
Titan is currently 1.2 million kilometers from Saturn, and is approximately 11 centimeters away...
Inequality and discrimination or classism based on said inequality is a profound and, to a certain extent, inextricable part of human relationships.
We are only more aware of the inequalities that become apparent…
It is often argued that science makes mistakes, that science corrects itself, that science, if it is dogmatic, is not science. This is not entirely true. It all depends, of course, on what we consider to be immovable or dogmatic.
Much…
Researchers at MIT discovered a couple of years ago that fasting for 24 hours activates a metabolic shift in mice, causing their intestines to improve their intestinal stem cells.
Intestinal stem cells are a…
The first detailed study of the diets of great white sharks off Australia's east coast reveals that this predator spends more time feeding near the seafloor than expected.
The study found that, according to…
Our image of Uranus has not advanced substantially beyond being the featureless blue ball captured by Voyager 2's instruments in 1986.
But last year, while reviewing NASA files, two ci...