Science

Credit: University of Sheffield Radiocarbon dating is set to become more accurate than ever after an international team of scientists improved the technique for assessing the age of historical objects. The team of researchers at the universities of Sheffield, Belfast, Bristol, Glasgow, Oxford, St Andrews and Historic England, plus international …

HONG KONG – After more than 200 police officers raided the newsroom of Hong Kong’s largest pro-democracy, Apple Daily, a staff reporter reported to the editor – in – chief: Should I still go to work? “You decide,” replied the editor-in-chief, Ryan Law. “This is the biggest news story in …

Artist rendering of NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Dozens of times in the last decades NASA Scientists have launched laser beams at a reflector the size of a paperback novel, about 240,000 miles (385,000 kilometers) from Earth. She announced today, in collaboration with her French …

Due to American Society for the Advancement of Science August 12, 2020 A recently discovered soot-free flame called a blue vortex – which consumes all the fuel it encounters – actually consists of three different flame structures swirling together in one other world flower ring, according to the first study …

The climate science community is mourning the loss of a pioneering climate scientist and glaciologist, Konrad Steffen. Koni, as he was known to his friends and colleagues, apparently fell to his death in a deep opening in the ice called a crevasse on Saturday while conducting research in West Greenland. …