The landslide itself is probably caused by climate change, Svennevig and co-authors believe. The extreme temperature swings between Greenland’s summer and winter mean that avalanches have always been ...

In the newest breakthrough in prosthetic technology, researchers in Italy have unveiled a robotic hand that is magnetically controlled. There are no wires or electrical cables to be seen here – ...

D eep in the ocean lives an unusual isopod that’s known to swim upside-down while going backwards with the help of peculiar paddle-like legs as long as your fingers. Scientists recently captured ...

Recreating the cold, low-pressure conditions of Mars is not easy, requiring the team to use a liquid-nitrogen-cooled test chamber at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) known as the Dirty ...

E arlier this year, a devastating wildfire ripped through 33,048 hectares (81,663 acres) of land in Jasper National Park in Canada. According to the BBC, it was the park's worst wildfire of the last ...

“Under federal law, the FAA is prohibited from issuing regulations for commercial human spaceflight occupant safety," the ...

L eonardo Da Vinci was pretty much the definition of a Renaissance man, and not just by virtue of being a man who lived during the Renaissance. He was an artist, a scientist, a musician; a dick pic ...

I n 2023, a first-of-its-kind clinical trial used a brain implant and artificial intelligence ( AI) to return movement and sensation to a man with quadriplegia. Now, a year on, it's been announced ...

For decades, most who asked have accepted a simple story for how these prized objects form, but the truth may be much more ...

The four species, all of which are native to Gabon, included the fromager tree ( Ceiba pentandra ), giant yellow mulberry ( Myrianthus arboreus ), African teak ( Milicia excelsa ), and fig tree ...

With a total of 19 humans, it beats the previous record for the most amount of humans in Earth’s orbit at one time. That ...