World population likely to shrink after mid-century, forecasting major shifts in global population and economic power

The modelling research uses data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 to project future global, regional, and national population.

New approach refines the Hubble's constant and age of universe

Approaches to date the Big Bang, which gave birth to the universe, rely on mathematics and computational modeling, using distance estimates of the oldest stars, the behavior of galaxies and the rate of the universe's expansion. The idea is to compute how long it would take all objects to return

Solar Orbiter's first images reveal 'campfires' on the Sun: ESA/NASA mission returns first data, snaps closest pictures of the Sun

According to the scientists behind the mission, seeing phenomena that were not observable in detail before hints at the enormous potential of Solar Orbiter, which has only just finished its early phase of technical verification known as commissioning. "These are only the first images and we can already see interesting

Plato was right: Earth is made, on average, of cubes: The ancient Greek philosopher was on to something, researchers found

Science has steadily moved beyond Plato's conjectures, looking instead to the atom as the building block of the universe.Yet Plato seems to have been onto something, researchers have found.

Global methane emissions soar to record high

Between 2000 and 2017, levels of the potent greenhouse gas barreled up toward pathways that climate models suggest will lead to 3-4 degrees Celsius of warming before the end of this century.

Researchers convert female mosquitoes to nonbiting males with implications for mosquito control

Male mosquitoes do not bite and are unable to transmit pathogens to humans.Female mosquitoes, on the other hand, are able to bite.

First ever image of a multi-planet system around a sun-like star captured by ESO telescope

Just a few weeks ago, ESO revealed a planetary system being born in a new, stunning VLT image.

NASA astronauts safely splash down after first commercial crew flight to space station

SpaceX's Crew Dragon, carrying Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, splashed down under parachutes in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida at 2:48 p.m.

Cooling of Earth caused by eruptions, not meteors

Michael Waters, director of The Center for The Study of the First Americans and Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University, and colleagues from Baylor University and the University of Houston have had their work published in Science Advances. Some researchers believed the event -- which cooled the Earth by

'Little brain' or cerebellum not so little after all

Sometimes referred to by its Latin translation as the '"little brain"', the cerebellum is located close to the brainstem and sits under the cortex in the hindbrain.

NASA data helps new model predict big solar flares

As it progresses through its natural 11-year cycle, the Sun transitions from periods of high to low activity, and back to high again.

Surprising number of exoplanets could host life: New insight to inform future NASA missions

This is the conclusion of a study led by UC Riverside astrobiologist Stephen Kane published this week in the Astronomical Journal.

ALMA finds possible sign of neutron star in supernova 1987A

Ever since astronomers witnessed one of the brightest explosions of a star in the night sky, creating Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), they have been searching for a compact object that should have formed in the leftovers from the blast. Because particles known as neutrinos were detected on Earth on the

Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission to Red Planet successfully launched

Humanity's most sophisticated rover launched with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter at 7:50 a.m.EDT (4:50 a.m.

Study sheds light on the evolution of the earliest dinosaurs

In 2017, however, this classical view of dinosaur evolution was thrown into question with evidence that perhaps the lizard-hipped dinosaurs evolved first -- a finding that dramatically rearranged the first major branches of the dinosaur family tree. Now an MIT geochronologist, along with paleontologists from Argentina and Brazil, has found