All Science
- First LookMission Control opens to public 50 years after moon landing
NASA's Johnson Space Center has recreated its Apollo-era Mission Control to evoke 1969. The exhibit, meticulously restored down to the tan carpeting and gray-green wallpaper, opens to the public June 28 in Houston.
- First LookNASA to open moon rock samples sealed since Apollo missions
Moon rocks hold keys to the universe. Scientists have studied them to determine the age of the surfaces of Mars and Mercury, and established that Jupiter likely formed closer to the sun and later migrated outward.
- Beyond Schrödinger’s cat: A serious comic about quantum physics
Scientists at Yale University have found that quantum jumps are not as instantaneous or as unpredictable as scientists previously thought.
- First LookSpace poll: Americans prefer averting asteroids over Mars missions
It's been 50 years since the historic Apollo 11 moon landing. But today many Americans have a different idea of what the space program should be focused on – and it might not include a trip to Mars.
- Extraction: DNA from strawberries
The ability to study DNA revolutionized the field of biology. But to study it, scientists first have to extract DNA molecules from the rest of an organism.
- Whom does your DNA belong to? Hint, it’s not just you.
Home DNA test kits are flying off the shelves allowing people to analyze their own genome and those of their relatives. But is that a good thing?
- GMO could bring back the American chestnut. But should it?
A project at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry to restore the American chestnut tree is generating both promise and protest.
- Science NotebookNew York Harbor: a no-go zone or an aquatic world?
- How a new human species challenges textbook histories
A paper published in the journal Nature on Wednesday describes Homo luzonensis, a new human species that lived in the Philippines.
- A black hole, once a mathematical curiosity, is brought to light
The first ever image of a black hole marks a milestone not just in black hole astronomy, but for the study of gravity itself.
- From Einstein to Duchamp: the physics of modern art
“Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein,” an exhibit at Amherst College’s Mead Art Museum, explores interconnections between art and science.
- Have you herd? It turns out cows have feelings, too.
From the barnyard to the pooch motel, people are increasingly warming to the idea that animals have their own thoughts and feelings.
- Out of history’s trash heap, clues to climate’s role in ancient collapse
Clues buried in an ancient trash pile are shedding light on the role of climate change in the collapse of a Byzantine settlement.
- Beyond the big splash: What SpaceX success means for America
With the successful return of SpaceX’s crew capsule, the United States appears poised once again to lead human spaceflight. For many Americans, space travel is part of their national identity.
- Why are humans so kind, yet so cruel?
Under different circumstances, humans can be the kindest, gentlest species or the most murderous. Evolution may hold clues to that Jekyll and Hyde nature.
- Probing space for the ingredients of life – or even an ‘Earth twin’
In the search for life elsewhere in the universe, we tend to look for our own image. That may be limiting us in terms of seeing what's really there.
- Early humans conquered the Sri Lankan rainforest – one meal at a time
New research suggests that Homo sapiens' flexibility in finding food sources helped them to colonize seemingly impenetrable rainforests some 45,000 years ago.
- Science NotebookA fond farewell to ‘the little rover that could’
NASA's Opportunity rover has provided scientists with 15 years worth of data. But more than that, “Oppy became a beloved and uniting symbol of human tenacity, curiosity, endeavour.”