By the Space Daily editorial team. This article describes the published science on sound masking and sleep.
In the late 1960s, a set of United States satellites built to watch for clandestine nuclear weapons tests began recording brief flashes of gamma radiation that matched no bomb.
In 1987 a star exploded in a nearby galaxy, and detectors deep underground caught the burst of neutrinos roughly three hours before any telescope on Earth saw the light arrive.
A study published today in Science proposes that homing pigeons may sense the Earth's magnetic field using iron-loaded immune cells in their livers.
The Valley of Mexico sits at an altitude of approximately 2,240 metres in a basin that, in the early fourteenth century, was largely covered by an interconnected system of shallow freshwater lakes.
In 1965, the earliest large-scale time-diary study ever conducted found that the average American between the ages of 25 and 35 spent the equivalent of nearly…
The European Commission moved to reserve two-thirds of a coveted satellite spectrum band for European operators, a decision that directly threatens SpaceX's…
The headline claim, in the form it usually arrives, is that Saturn's rings are around 400 million years old.
Pando, a single quaking aspen in Utah's Fishlake National Forest, weighs 6,000 tons, contains 47,000 genetically identical trunks across 106 acres, and may have been cloning itself for up to 80,000 years.
On 18 March 1965, at 07:00 GMT, the Soviet spacecraft Voskhod 2 lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome carrying two cosmonauts: Pavel Belyayev, the mission…
Finland's Posiva Oy is preparing to begin the first operational disposal of spent nuclear fuel in a deep geological repository, at the Onkalo site on Olkiluoto island.
This article is a reading of the published research and surrounding coverage, not medical advice.
Ask a father about the first year after his child was born, and a particular phrase tends to surface eventually.
Most of the psilocybin research that has made headlines over the past decade has carried an implicit qualifier: this is for people for whom nothing else has worked.
Embedded in the Sounds of Earth section of the Voyager Golden Record is something that does not appear on any track listing: an hour-long recording of the heartbeat and brainwaves of Ann Druyan, compressed into the span of a minute to fit onto the record.
The popular version of where gold comes from has become almost a set piece. The metal in a wedding ring was forged in the collision of two neutron stars, drifted through space for billions of years, and ended up in the Earth's crust to be mined.
