NASA's first all-female spacewalk will take place Friday with astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, whose task will be to replace a faulty battery charge-discharge unit. Plus, an unusual, brainless organism called "the blob" or "many-headed slime," will make its first public appearance at the Paris Zoological Park Saturday. This single-cell being lacks a nervous system, has 720 sexes, can learn, pass knowledge to other molds, and heal itself in minutes, baffling scientists. And, a new seismic phenomenon named "stormquakes" discovered.
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The first all-female spacewalk in NASA's 61-year history is finally happening and will even take place a few days ahead of schedule. Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir, who were initially supposed to venture beyond the International Space Station on Oct. 21, are now slated to make their …
You wouldn’t know it just by gazing at its yellowish veins of matter, but the blob is perhaps the most cunning brainless organism on the planet. The single-cell slime mold, which lacks a nervous system, has long baffled scientists for its ability to learn, pass knowledge to other molds and repair …
In 2009, Ying-Hui Fu started getting a flood of emails from people who claimed to only need a few hours of sleep at night. Fu and her colleague and …
