Engineers affiliated with the China Academy of Space Technology and its Qian Xuesen Laboratory have laid out a concrete technical roadmap for building a kilometer-scale solar power station in orbit, ...

The coming decades of space exploration hinge on a single, stubborn number: the 225 million kilometres between Earth and Mars. Chemical rockets, the workhorses of every space programme to date, take ...

Scientists have found that ancient Martian lakes could have survived for decades despite freezing air temperatures. Using a newly adapted climate model, researchers showed that thin, seasonal ice ...

The 74 reports that U.S. eighth graders' science skills and interest have declined post-COVID, with proficiency falling from 33% to 29%.

Abstract: Aiming to match pedestrian images captured under varying lighting conditions, visible-infrared person re-identification (VI-ReID) has drawn intensive research attention and achieved ...

A Boone startup, with help from Ames Lab, has found a way to recover essential rare earth elements in an environmentally friendly manner. Critical Materials Recycling, Inc. (CMR) uses a patented, acid ...

Mice that experience the real world may be better models for human mental health conditions, compared with lab mice that never leave their cages, a study hints. When you purchase through links on our ...