Softly hugging jellyfish, satellite refuelling, musical plants and detecting planets with aurorae.
Humans in suspended animation, oxygen on Mars, water on Europa, alien gases, and snakes with legs!
Our top stories from 2018. All the stories we thought particularly interesting, from wombat poop to very hot chilies!
Water-rich explanets, omnivorous sharks, space station sabotage and a looming deadline for the Opportunity rover.
Plastic-eating enzyme, NASA’s new planet-hunting spacecraft, and DNA that spreads to other species remarkably common in the oceans.
Different styles of whale song, massive solar flares and really hot chillies!
SoT 290: There’s No Fuel Gauge
- March 29, 2018
- Tagged as: astrophysics, birds, China, conservation, cosmology, DNA, exoplanets, genetics, Kepler, media, NASA, space debris, Stephen Hawking, twins
Remembering Stephen Hawking, space twins are still human, a parrot comeback, a plummeting space station and Kepler running on empty.
The weird and ugly naked mole rat can survive for 18 minutes without oxygen, and how we know that Alpha Centauri is a trinary star system.
An atmosphere around an Earth-like planet, possible new brain cancer treatment, superbugs in space, Shazam for mosquitoes!
Discovery of 7 Earth-like exoplanets, concerns over cancer initiative, early spotting of a supernova, and disappearing crickets.