Science

The China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Sunday released new videos and photos captured by the country's first Mars probe, Tianwen-1, during its landing and roving exploration on the red planet. Four video clips were…

The 1949 letter by the physicist and Nobel laureate discusses bees, birds, and whether new physics principles could come from studying animal senses. It’s a position still being realized within physics to this day, with a growing body of…

We may be on the brink of a new paradigm for nuclear power, a group of nuclear specialists suggested recently in The Bridge, the journal of the National Academy of Engineering. Much as large, expensive, and centralized computers gave way to…

In the future, your vanilla ice cream may be made from plastic bottles. Scientists have figured out a way to convert plastic waste into vanilla flavoring with genetically engineered bacteria, according to a new study. Vanillin, the…

An old joke about nuclear fusion—that it is 30 years away and always will be—is so well-known that The Economist’s science editor forbids correspondents from repeating it. No one doubts sustained fusion is possible in principle. It…

The defense establishment recently completed the first test of an airborne laser system, which successfully destroyed several drones, in what Defense Minister Benny Gantz hailed a major "technological breakthrough." As part of the…

A ground-breaking ceremony was held at the Beishan site on 17 June. Among those attending the event were representatives of CAEA, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, Gansu Province, Jiuquan City, Subei County, China National Nuclear…

The Tiangong’s core module is set to become the first crewed vessel powered by ion drives – a technology that could slash journey times to the red planet The thrusters have been in use since the 1970s, but China hopes to develop them…

The lander carrying China's first Mars rover has touched down on the Red Planet, the China National Space Administration (CNSA) confirmed on Saturday morning. It landed on a pre-selected landing zone in the southern part of an…

By 13 October 2016 Mehdi Tayoubi already knew his ScanPyramids project was on the right track. That was the day Tayoubi and his team met with a committee of Egyptologists to tell them about the small, previously unknown cavity they’d found…