A discovery has unveiled thriving animal life hidden beneath the ocean’s seafloor. Scientists unearthed this incredible underworld while exploring the volcanic activity near the East Pacific Rise. What was thought to be a desolate environment beneath the seafloor has now been found teeming with life.
According to the latest Richard Branson news, Richard Branson, Virgin Galactic founder is set to co-pilot Space Perspective’s first commercial space balloon flight. The hydrogen-powered balloon will take passengers to a height of 20 miles above Earth, higher than any previous commercial balloon.
Vast, a California-based aerospace startup has unveiled its first commercial space station, Haven-1. Guided by a former Apple designer and backed by a talented team of engineers and experts.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2024 has been awarded to three scientists, David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper. Their work in protein structure prediction and computational protein design has not only answered questions in biology but has also opened the doors to advancements in medicine, biotechnology and more.
The discovery of body fusion among comb jellies occurred unexpectedly during routine laboratory research conducted by a team led by Kei Jokura at the University of Exeter and Japan’s National Institutes of Natural Sciences.
The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for their contributions to machine learning and artificial neural networks.
Victor Ambros from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Gary Ruvkun from Harvard Medical School jointly received the 2024 Nobel Prize for their discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.
Researchers from the FlyWire Consortium have mapped out every single neuron and synaptic connection in the fruit fly brain. The fruit fly brain has 130,000 neurons and 50 million intricate connections, which form the basis of this new connectome. This is the most comprehensive wiring diagram of an adult animal’s brain ever produced.
Astronomers have made a discovery by identifying a sub-Earth exoplanet orbiting Barnard’s star, the closest solo star to the solar system. This newly found exoplanet called Barnard b and it is one of the lowest-mass exoplanets ever detected.
On September 28, 2024, China Manned Space Agency revealed the exterior design of its first lunar spacesuit. The spacesuit is designed to protect astronauts from the harsh conditions of the moon including extreme temperatures, solar radiation and the near-vacuum atmosphere.
