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Iron is an essential nutrient that almost all life requires to grow and thrive. Iron's importance goes all the way back to the formation of the planet Earth, where the amount of iron in the Earth's rocky mantle was 'set' by the conditions under which ...

Penguins, a few research scientists and a couple of tourist flights were likely the only people who watched the total eclipse, given the isolated nature of Antarctica. The video comes from the JM Pasachoff Antarctic Expedition, ...

Grab your binoculars and wake up early, and you'll have a chance to see what should be the brightest comet of the year. Comet Leonard, discovered in January by Greg Leonard of the Mount Lemmon Observatory, is visible in the morning sky before sunrise, ...

The trouble wasn't that anyone thought the COVID vaccine could make them magnetic; it's that several people did, and do. Enter R. Philip Bouchard, who's been designing fun and educational software for a long time, including the original "Oregon Trail" ...

Astronauts at the International Space Station got a glimpse of the only total solar eclipse of 2021, which was otherwise only visible to a few lucky observers in Antarctica. The eclipse, which began on Saturday (Dec. 4) at 2 a.m. EST (0700 GMT), ...

Plastic production has soared in countries that rely heavily on coal for energy, leading to a rise in carbon emissions and particle pollution — which, in turn, has led to a steep increase in illness and death.

SAN ANTONIO – The brightest comet of 2021 is set to light up the Texas night sky in December. OK, it's not actually going to light up the sky, but you'll have a good chance of seeing Comet Leonard if the conditions are right. According to EarthSky.org, ...

This diagram shows the orbits of 2,200 potentially hazardous objects as calculated by JPL's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Highlighted is the orbit of the double asteroid Didymos, the target of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) ...

During the Astronaut Encounter, veteran astronauts give a live presentation and hold a question and answer session about what it's like to live and work in space. The Astronaut of the Day is also available for autographs ...

A new drugs strategy will mean more funding for treatment and a crackdown on gangs, ministers say.

“Construction of Starship orbital launch pad at the Cape has begun,” Musk tweeted Friday. The Starship launch site will be located just southeast of the launch mount location for SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy ...

The company received three more mission orders for Crew Dragon as Boeing Starliner works to get off the ground. The Crew Dragon capsule Endeavour with four astronauts aboard is departing the International Space Station against a backdrop of Pacific ...

The impotence pill could have effects in the brain that may help fight dementia, say US researchers.

Astronomers have discovered well over 4,000 exoplanets with the help of instruments like the dearly departed Kepler Space Telescope and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). That latter mission just detected yet another planet, ...

Researchers are searching for better materials to harness solar energy, but an explanation for the efficiency of one promising substance, perovskites, has proven elusive. However, thanks to new research from Cambridge University, scientists are no ...

High numbers of staff in self-isolation prompted the closure of Todholm Primary in Paisley.

China's Yutu-2 moon rover has spotted a weird cube-shaped object on the moon, and observers are stumped. The finding was reported on Friday last week by Our Space, a Chinese social media channel associated with the China National Space Administration, ...

Comet Leonard, known to scientists as Comet C/2021 A1, was discovered in January near Tucson, Arizona, NASA Ambassador Tony Rice said in WRAL. Experts hoped the comet would be visible in December.

Page and Nicholson are the co-leading authors of "A Meta-Analysis of Single Visit Pollination Effectiveness Comparing Honeybees and Other Floral Visitors," the cover story of the current edition of the journal, published Nov. 30.

In early 2020, a team of scientists from the University of Vermont, Tufts University and Harvard University took stem cells from African clawed frog embryos and turned them into tiny living robots. As if that isn't amazing enough, then something ...