Science

Watch a Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot Grab and Throw Like It’s Nothing

Atlas is getting more sophisticated in how it interacts with objects and its environment. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Boston…

2 years ago

Stars Are Disappearing From the Night Sky at an Alarming Rate. Here’s Why

The Milky Way as seen from Poland. K. Ulaczyk/J. Skowron/OGLE/Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw Light pollution has robbed eight out…

2 years ago

How to watch the ‘Green Comet’ as it makes closest approach in 50K years

A green comet shooting through the morning skies is scheduled to make its closest approach to Earth at the beginning…

2 years ago

See a Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot Grab and Throw, Just Like People Do

Atlas is getting more sophisticated in how it interacts with objects and its environment. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Boston…

2 years ago

A Flying Boat Could One Day Explore Titan, Saturn’s Weirdest Moon

An artist's depiction of TitanAir, "a relocatable lake lander."  NASA / Quinn Morley Imagine a craft that could soar through…

2 years ago

Meet ‘Toadzilla,’ the Enormous Toxic Toad That Shocked Park Rangers

Human for scale. Toadzilla was truly a massive specimen. Queensland government Cane toads reproduce like mad and take a toll…

2 years ago

Bright Green Comet Passing Earth Will Soon Be Visible to the Naked Eye

Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) as observed from Mount Fuji, Japan. SpaceWeatherGallery.com/Akihiro Yamazaki Now's the time to start looking for Comet C/2022 E3…

2 years ago

Sweeping Milky Way Portrait Captures More Than 3 Billion Stars

A cropped portion of the new Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) from NOIRLab still shows thousands upon thousands of…

2 years ago

‘Replica’ Sword Turns Out to Be the Real 3,000-Year-Old Deal

This sword has a much longer history than the Field Museum originally thought. Field Museum If you visit the Field…

2 years ago

Can’t See the Stars in the Night Sky Like You Used To? Blame Skyglow

The Milky Way as seen from Poland. K. Ulaczyk/J. Skowron/OGLE/Astronomical Observatory, University of Warsaw Light pollution has robbed eight out…

2 years ago