[ad_1] Refresh 2025-04-01T02:00:31.453Z SPACECRAFT SEPARATION! Fram2’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Resilience, has separated from its Falcon 9 rocket and begun flying freely. Everything continues to look good for the pioneering mission, the first crewed spaceflight ever to orbit Earth over the planet’s poles. (Image credit: SpaceX) 2025-04-01T01:48:50.181Z LIFTOFF! (Image credit: SpaceX) Fram2 has launched, sending…
[ad_1] A new study has identified a protein that appears to be essential for hair growth and hair follicle protection. Called MCL‑1, it could potentially be targeted by treatments for certain kinds of baldness such as alopecia. Led by a team from the Duke‑NUS Medical School in Singapore and the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute…
[ad_1] Scientists have found another reason to put the phone down: a survey of 45,202 young adults in Norway has discovered that using a screen in bed drives up your risk of insomnia up by 59% and cuts your sleep time by 24 minutes. However, social media was not found to be more disruptive than other…
[ad_1] SpaceX just launched the first-ever human spaceflight to circle Earth over its poles. The private Fram2 mission lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex-39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida today (March 31) at 9:46 p.m. EDT (0146 GMT on April 1), sending the Crew Dragon capsule “Resilience” into a…
[ad_1] If the genes of a tiny, bumless invertebrate are anything to go by, our anuses might be repurposed sperm chutes. A new study suggests instead of releasing waste, the first anal orifice was an exit hatch for male sex cells which was given a new task. Researchers from the University of Bergen in Norway…
[ad_1] Light behaves like a wave in free space. In fact, the waves of light interfere with each other, the way water waves interact and generate ripples. This viewpoint is scientifically described using Maxwell’s fields. The energy of a wave is confined in its amplitude i.e. higher the height of a wave, more energetic it…
[ad_1] Everyone dies, but what actually transpires during that process is a deep mystery that scientists are only beginning to seriously investigate. Increasingly, near-death experiences, or NDEs, are part of that growing field. An incredible 5 to 10 percent of the general population reports memories of an NDE. Oftentimes, people’s recollections are similar: perceiving separation…
[ad_1] Two NASA rockets launched into auroras over Alaska last week to study the impact that these geomagnetic light shows have on Earth’s upper atmosphere, and the results were gorgeous. The experiment, called Auroral Waves Excited by Substorm Onset Magnetic Events, or AWESOME, is led by researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). Two…
[ad_1] One of the first verified predictions of general relativity is the gravitational deflection of starlight. The effect was first observed in 1919 during a total solar eclipse. Since stars appear as points of light, the effect is seen as an apparent shift in the position of stars near the eclipse. But the effect happens…
[ad_1] In a review published today in the peer-reviewed journal Oxford Open Climate Change, top scientists issued an urgent warning that fossil fuels and the fossil fuel industry are driving interlinked crises that threaten people, wildlife, and a livable future. Today’s review synthesizes the extensive scientific evidence showing that fossil fuels and the fossil fuel industry…