This is how stars are born
How are stars made? Why do they form in clusters? Why does it take so long? Why are some stars larger than others? Finding the answers to these questions is...
Watch a spectacular star creation video made by astronomers
Star creation is glorious. But here on Earth, we only see snapshots in time of far-off stellar nurseries (through telescopes). To visualize star formation over the course of tens of...
Artificial raises $21M led by Microsoft’s M12 for a lab automation platform aimed at life sciences R&D – TechCrunch
Automation is extending into every aspect of how organizations get work done, and today comes news of a startup that is building tools for one industry in particular: life sciences....
The first big U.S. offshore wind farm is a big deal
is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate. The U.S. is getting its first major offshore wind farm. And it's a big deal. The...
Nearly 750,000 deaths linked to ‘overwork’ every year
In a massive study spanning 194 countries and accounting for billions of people, the World Health Organization (WHO) has compiled incredible evidence linking as many as 750,000 deaths per year to...
With $21M in funding, Code Ocean aims to help researchers replicate data-heavy science – TechCrunch
Every branch of science is increasingly reliant on big data sets and analysis, which means a growing confusion of formats and platforms — more than inconvenient, this can hinder the...
Hubble photo shows cosmic cloud making its very own bright light
The legendary Hubble telescope captured an intriguing cosmic cloud — a cloud that makes its own light. Called an "emissions nebula," it's a bright cloud whose gases get excited by...
Mars Perseverance rover officially starts its big search for past life
Zap. After the Perseverance rover spent its first three months on Mars getting its bearings and serving as an observation post for the successful Ingenuity helicopter flights, NASA announced the...
See the colossal James Webb space telescope unfurl its huge mirrors
Engineers commanded the James Webb Space Telescope to unfurl its over 21-foot wide golden mirrors this week, and the crucial test succeeded. The test, shown in the image below, was...
This quantum paradox will make you question reality
If you don’t finish reading this article it may never be written.If that’s not incentive to abandon a boring news piece, we’re not sure what is.A team of researchers from...