The Soyuz spacecraft attached to the Earth-facing side of the International Space Station has suffered a coolant leak. As a result, a planned spacewalk Wednesday by Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin has been canceled, according …
The first ever description of the snake clitoris has been made by researchers in Australia and the US. In a new study, published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B on Tuesday, describes the size and shape of the snake clitoris –…
Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory may have achieved a remarkable new high point for fusion reactions, generating more energy than was pumped in during a recent experiment, according to a report by the Financial Times. The pub…
As early as 2006, Eske Willerslev and members of his lab ventured into northern Greenland with a drill, extracting cores of sediment from the Kap København Formation. They were hunting for environmental DNA, or eDNA, in their cores — puzzle pieces t…
If you’ve spent any time browsing social media feeds over the last week (who hasn’t), you’ve probably heard about ChatGPT. The mesmerizing and mindblowing chatbot, developed by OpenAI and released last week, is a nifty little AI that can spit out hi…
NASA’s Webb Telescope Delivers Extraordinary Look at Titan, Saturn’s Largest Moon – CNET
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NASA’s plan to return humans to the moon is officially one small step closer to reality with the launch of its most powerful rocket ever. During the dark and early hours of Wednesday morning — following a painstaking road to launch — the agency’s …
This story is part of Choosing Earth, a series that chronicles the impact of climate change and explores what’s being done about the problem.
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Black hole collisions are some of the most extreme phenomena in the universe. As the two massive, invisible bodies spiral toward each other, they disturb the fabric of spacetime, sending out ripples across the universe. Those ripples — gravitationa…
Frequent readers of CNET Science will remember Port and Starboard, the duo of killer whales from a story we published in June, which detailed research showing great white sharks were being hunted by the whales off the coast of South Africa. New aeri…
Has the entire field of particle physics collapsed, thanks to the efforts of a former physicist who is now speaking out? If you’ve read the latest headlines, you might be inclined to think so. On Monday, the Guardian’s opinion section ran an&nb…
How did the universe come to be? The prevailing theory is everything that is began with the Big Bang. In a nutshell, the theory suggests everything, everywhere, all at once suddenly burst to life. The caveat being everything and everywhere prior to …
Wilfred Batty’s sister had just sat down to eat lunch when, out the window, she saw a shadow flicker across the yard. A beast, slender and wolf-like, prowled around the chicken pens. The creature, a thylacine, had been the cause of great trouble f…
In the bustling heart of Adelaide, South Australia, stands a castle made of glass. Depending on the angle, you might catch sunlight sparkling off the exterior. But when the sky darkens with storm clouds, the same glass projects a heavy gloom over the s…
Astronomers armed with early data obtained by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) are hunting galaxies that existed just a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Rohan Naidu, an astrophysicist based at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard …