Not all galaxies create stars actively; this has been made clear thanks to observation programs such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In some galaxies, it takes much longer than "usual" for stars to form. Why this is the case has long been debated. A...
3000, that’s the estimated number of experiments that took place in the International Space Station, ISS, since its construction began in the year 2000. The rationale is simple: The more data we gather and the more knowledge we gain, the better prepared will...
A physical address isn’t old-fashioned. On the contrary, a physical address is the beginning of a digital identity. High-speed internet and 4G are important, but access to physical roads and addresses are still necessary. Without a connection to a place, you...
A type of rice designed to boost A-vitamin under the name of "Golden Rice" has been approved for cultivation by the Department of Agriculture-Philippines Research Center for Rice (DA-PhilRice). The decision makes Golden Rice the first nutrient-enriched...
Anyone who has seen the science fiction series Star Trek has probably heard the phrase "Shields Up!" countless times. In the series, this means that a kind of force field encloses the entire spaceship and protects it from attack. Now the US Air Force,...
Synchron, a rival to Elon Musk's Neuralink, has made their own version of an "implantable brain-computer interface," and it just got the green light by the Food and Drug Administration in the US to be implanted in humans. Neuralink has not yet reached...