Whenever we're confronted with aspects of science fiction becoming scientific reality, philosophical questions arise.This week, many were asking this one: What is a robot, really?Films and TV shows have offered us myriad archetypes of what robots could be like --…
The International Space Station had to adjust its orbit to avoid collision with a piece of debris from a US rocket, the head of Russia's space agency Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, said on Friday, according to state news agency TASS."Five minutes…
The use of invisible lasers in space may sound like something from science fiction, but it's real.NASA's upcoming Laser Communications Relay Demonstration could revolutionize the way the agency communicates with future missions across the solar system.These lasers could lead to…
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If you think there aren't enough hours in the day on Earth, this newly discovered planet will make your head spin. On an exoplanet called GJ 367 b that's orbiting a star 31 light-years away from our sun, a year…
Scientists revealed a newly discovered marine ichthyosaur species with gnarly teeth that was found in Colombia.The partial skull of an ichthyosaur, an extinct marine reptile, that looked like a swordfish was unearthed in Loma Pedro Luis, Villa de Leyva, in…
The United States Supreme Court appears poised to pare down, or even entirely overturn, nearly five decades of constitutional protection of abortion -- a move that would have reverberations not just in America, but around the world.Oral arguments began on…
During a six and a half hour spacewalk Thursday, NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron replaced a malfunctioning communications antenna and achieved other "get ahead" tasks.The duo began their spacewalk at 6:15 a.m. ET and ended at 12:47 p.m.…
In the early days of November, laboratory technicians at Lancet Laboratories in Pretoria, South Africa, found unusual features in samples they were testing for the coronavirus.Essentially, a gene was missing in what would be a normal genome profile of the…
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While we were eating Thanksgiving leftovers and shopping sales on Black Friday, astronauts on the International Space Station had a special taco night to celebrate their second successful chile pepper harvest.As with the first historic chile pepper picking on October…
A new species of armored dinosaur discovered in Chile had a weaponized tail not seen before in any other dinosaur.Roughly 2 meters (6.5 feet) in size, the small armored dinosaur called an ankylosaur dates from the late Cretaceous period, around…
When South African officials sounded the alarm on the new Omicron variant last Thursday, stocks around the world tumbled and up to 70 countries, including the United States, imposed travel bans and restrictions to southern African countries.The knee-jerk response followed…
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NASA has postponed a spacewalk that was scheduled for Tuesday after receiving a space debris warning for the International Space Station.Just hours before the astronauts were due to venture out of the ISS, the agency said on its Twitter account…
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Editor's note: The Omicron coronavirus variant has now been identified in dozens of countries globally and this story will no longer be updated. Follow the latest updates on the spread of the variant here.Nations around the world are racing to…
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The world is in a "race against time" with the Omicron coronavirus variant, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday, warning during a visit to Latvia that scientists and manufacturers will need weeks to fully understand the…
Many of the world's richest countries have spent the past year hoarding coronavirus vaccines, buying up enough doses to vaccinate their populations several times over and consistently failing to deliver on their promises to share doses with the developing world.…
