Black hole movies coming soon, says leading astronomer
By the time an international group of scientists stunned the world with the first ever image of a black hole, they were already planning a sequel: a movie showing how massive clouds of gas are forever sucked into the void. The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration has already recorded the necessary observations and is processing the mountains of data to produce the first video, which will likely...
Open Lunar Foundation comes out in the open with its plan to build a moon village
After spending five years in semi-stealth mode, a San Francisco venture called the Open Lunar Foundation is talking about its plan to create a settlement on the moon at a cost in the range of $5 billion. "At $5B, it's not only achievable within current NASA budgets, it offers the tantalizing possibility that a single passionate individual could fund the entire program as their...
Rapid DNA analysis will be used to ID California boat fire victims. Here's how it works
Rapid DNA analysis will identify victims of the Conception fire. The method was used to identify victims of the Camp Fire in Paradise last...
Copy cat: Chinese firm creates first cloned kitten
Seven months after Huang Yu's pet cat Garlic died, the British shorthair was given a 10th life. Born on July 21, the new Garlic was created by Chinese firm Sinogene, becoming the Beijing-based company's first successfully copied cat. The pet-cloning outfit has made more than 40 pet dogs -- a procedure that costs a hefty 380,000 yuan ($53,000), while the price for a cat comes in at 250,000 yuan...
Black hole portrait wins Breakthrough Prize for Event Horizon Telescope’s team
What's $3 million divided by 347? That's the math problem to be solved by the physicists on the Event Horizon Telescope team, who won one of the top awards in the Breakthrough Prize program for snapping the first picture showing the dark maw of a supermassive black hole. Now in its eighth year, the "Oscars of Science" honor achievements in fundamental physics, life sciences and...
India's $145 million lunar mission is set to make it just the 4th nation to make a soft landing on the moon, only months after NASA called its actions in space 'unacceptable'
If the mission is successful, India will follow in the footsteps of China, Russia, and the US, in making a soft moon...