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Nail-Biting Chase Ends in Victory As Penguin Hunted By Orcas Leaps To Safety On Tourist Boat

Nail-Biting Chase Ends in Victory As Penguin Hunted By Orcas Leaps To Safety On Tourist Boat

If you like wildlife, the hunter-hunter interactions in wildlife documentaries will probably make you feel a bit disconnected. Even the most naughty of cats have…
How Do Eyeless Worms Know To Avoid The Color Blue?

How Do Eyeless Worms Know To Avoid The Color Blue?

Roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans is one of the most studied species on earth, but it retains the ability to surprise or even surprise scientists. The most…
Chatbot startup Heyday raises $5.1M

Chatbot startup Heyday raises $5.1M

Montreal-based Head announced today that it has raised $6.5 million ($5.1 million in US dollars) for additional seed funding. Co-founder and CEO Steve Desjarlais told me…
Precursors To Life Found On Both An Asteroid And A Comet

Precursors To Life Found On Both An Asteroid And A Comet

The first claim, based the single grain of the near-Earth asteroid Itokawa, was brought back to Earth in 2010 by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency…
Worms Are Navigating Mazes In Space To Teach Us About Astronauts’ Muscle Wastage

Worms Are Navigating Mazes In Space To Teach Us About Astronauts’ Muscle Wastage

Muscle wasting is the real mood under lockdown that lasts months without going to the point of experience – but for astronauts it is a…
Perseverance Landing Site Named After Visionary Science Fiction Author Octavia E. Butler

Perseverance Landing Site Named After Visionary Science Fiction Author Octavia E. Butler

NASA has announced that its state-of-the-art rover landing site will henceforth be known as “Octavia e Butler Landing” after the late great science fiction writer.…
NASA’s Perseverance Took Its First Test Drive On Mars

NASA’s Perseverance Took Its First Test Drive On Mars

The entire test took the rover 33 minutes and was an important milestone in the calibration of each system before the robotic explorer could begin…
China’s Tianwen-1 Sends Back First Incredible High-Res Images Of Mars

China’s Tianwen-1 Sends Back First Incredible High-Res Images Of Mars

China’s Tianwen-1 spacecraft currently orbiting Mars has returned the first high-definition images of the Red Planet, and they are incredible. There is nothing more like…
A Giant, Blistering Planet Hotter Than Many Stars May Be Orbiting Vega

A Giant, Blistering Planet Hotter Than Many Stars May Be Orbiting Vega

Our methods for planet finding make it easier to identify planets that are larger and closer to stars than others are. As a result, most…
Watch This Incredibly Rare Time-Lapse Of A Moonflower That Only Blooms For 12 Hours Once A Year

Watch This Incredibly Rare Time-Lapse Of A Moonflower That Only Blooms For 12 Hours Once A Year

A rare moonflower at the University Cambridge Botanical Gardens (CUBG) in the United Kingdom has blossomed for just one day in a significant flower event…
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