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Chang'e-8 mission planned for launch around 2028, to form basic structure of a lunar research station with Chang'e-7

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​global times​​​ China's lunar exploration mission, Chang'e-8, is planned for launch around 2028 and will join Chang'e-7 to form the basic structure of a lunar research station, the China National →

The development of quantum dots wins the 2023 Nobel prize in chemistry

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​science news​​​ By Carolyn Gramling and Tina Hesman Saey Work on tiny dots that light up TV screens and help doctors see the blood vessels that feed tumors has earned three scientists the 2023 Nobel →

DNA offers a new look at how Polynesia was settled

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​science news​​​ By Bruce Bower Polynesian voyagers settled islands across a vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean within about 500 years, leaving a genetic trail of the routes that the travelers took, →

Ограничение остановок пешеходов не приведет к сокращению числа столкновений между полицейскими и гражданскими лицами

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​science news​​​ By Sujata Gupta Any encounter between police and civilians has the potential to go awry (SN: 11/17/21). Stop and frisk, where police pat down pedestrians suspected of carrying →

New computer analysis hints volcanism killed the dinosaurs, not an asteroid

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​science news​​​ By Carolyn Gramling For decades, scientists have vigorously debated whether an asteroid strike or massive volcanic eruptions ended the reign of the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. →

Antimatter falls like matter, upholding Einstein’s theory of gravity

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science news By Emily Conover It’s official: Antimatter falls down, not up. In a first-of-its-kind experiment, scientists dropped antihydrogen atoms and watched them fall, showing that gravity →

Seen Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster? Data suggest the odds are low

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​science news​​​ By Meghan Rosen There were drones, there were boats. There were spotters on land and a hydrophone listening for suspicious sounds underwater. In what may have been the biggest search →

‘Our Fragile Moment’ finds modern lessons in Earth’s history of climate

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​science news​​​ By Luis Melecio-Zambrano Over four millennia ago, in the final days of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, a drought swept over the region, afflicting lands as far away as Greece and →

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is poised to return bits of the asteroid Bennu to Earth

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science news By James R. Riordon Seven years is a long time to wait for your carrier service to deliver a package. That’s how long it’s been since NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft set off to gather rocks →

These brainless jellyfish use their eyes and bundles of nerves to learn

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​science news​​​ By Maria Temming For Caribbean box jellyfish, learning is literally a no-brainer. In a new experiment, these animals learned to spot and avoid obstacles despite having no central →

Interlocking logs may be evidence of the oldest known wooden structure

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​science news​​​ By Richard Kemeny Modified logs dating to about 476,000 years ago might be the oldest evidence of wooden structures, a new study finds. Wooden artifacts decompose easily and are →

For the first time, researchers decoded the RNA of an extinct animal

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​science news​​​ By Katherine Kornei For the first time, researchers have successfully extracted and decoded RNA from an extinct animal. The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, was a →

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