Chemists find clues to the origins of buckyballs in space

Far from Earth, in the vast expanses of space between stars, exists a treasure trove of carbon. There, in what scientists call the “interstellar medium,” you can find a wide range of organic molecules—from honeycomblike polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) to spheres of carbon shaped like soccer balls.

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25 Years of the International Space Station: What archaeology tells us about living and working in space

The International Space Station is one of the most remarkable achievements of the modern age. It is the largest, most complex, most expensive and most durable spacecraft ever built.

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Is it aliens? Why that’s the least important question about interstellar objects

On October 29, Comet 3I/ATLAS reached its closest point to the sun.

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What are the cosmic voids made of?

Now that we have tools to find vast numbers of voids in the universe, we can finally ask…well, if we crack ’em open, what do we find inside?

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New NASA lunar contest could pit Elon Musk against Jeff Bezos, as US fears China will win race to moon

The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans to the lunar surface in half a century. But there’s a developing twist: an emerging competition between American companies to build the landing vehicle that could win this new moon race for the US.

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First observation of single top quark production with W and Z bosons

The experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) detect rare events on a daily basis, but some are exceptionally rare, such as this latest result from the CMS collaboration. For the first time, the collaboration has observed the production of a single top quark along with a W and a Z boson, an extremely rare […]

CERN’s electrostatic trap ‘recycles’ anions to illuminate the heaviest elements

From the burning of wood to the action of medicines, the properties and behavior of matter are governed by the way chemical elements bond with one another. For many of the 118 known elements, the intricate electronic structures of the atoms that are responsible for chemical bonding are well understood. But for the superheavy elements […]

We could use neutrino detectors as giant particle colliders

There is a limit to how big we can build particle colliders on Earth, whether that is because of limited space or limited economics. Since size is equivalent to energy output for particle colliders, that also means there’s a limit to how energetic we can make them. And again, since high energies are required to […]

Physicist discusses the Higgs boson and whether it might change the fate of the universe

On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had successfully detected the Higgs boson, the manifestation of the mechanism that gives some elementary particles their mass. The finding was a triumph of both the experimental skill required to definitively detect the particle, and the […]

BWC: Man points handgun at NYPD lieutenant before fatal OIS

Video shows the NYPD officers instructing the suspect to drop the gun he was holding multiple times before he raised and pointed it at the lieutenant

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Video: Calif. officer uses cruiser to stop gun-toting attempted carjacker

After unsuccessfully attempting to carjack a vehicle, the armed man fled from Fresno officers on foot; the officers pursued the man into a parking lot before striking him with a cruiser

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BWC: Fla. deputy shoots man, rescues child being held at knifepoint

Hillsborough County deputies responded as the suspect, wearing a motorcycle helmet and tactical vests barricaded himself in a bedroom with his 7-year-old brother

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Rongorongo: The Indecipherable Script Of Easter Island

The Easter Island in the South Pacific is famous for the Moai statues, the monumental zoomorphic sculptures created by a culture that still arouses controversy and admiration.

But the island keeps other lesser-known peculiarities, although equally interesting and important.

One of them is the Rongorongo, a system of glyphs discovered in the 19th century […]

5 Lost Legendary Cities That Have Never Been Found

Who doesn’t love a good adventure story? And who doesn’t love Indiana Jones Movies, right? And wouldn’t’ it be awesome to find Atlantis one day?

Despite the fact that Atlantis may be one of the most well-known ‘lost’ ancient cities, there are many other places as mysterious and stunning as Atlantis.

In this article, […]

India space agency launches its heaviest satellite

India launched its heaviest ever communication satellite on Sunday, the latest step in the country’s ambitious space program.

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