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What Kind of Targets Are Ideal for Rifle Shooting?
No matter what kind of gun you own, chances are you’ll want to head to a range for target practice sooner or later. There are countless types of targets to help you hone your aim with on the market, and many targets are fit for rifle shooting as well as shotgun...
Dinosaurs – Keeping Them Alive Today
History is an important part of life. There is the history of the universe and the planet, the history of the human race, the history of all other living things, and each individuals history. Each of these is equally important and should be given proper respect. It is...
Anyone Can Easily Find Plastic “Islands” in the Ocean
We use plastic every day of our lives — from grocery bags to fast food soda cups, plastics are an integral part of just about every industry. While a versatile tool, they also take a long time to biodegrade, if they do at all, making them a problem for the planet....
How to Buy and Use Research Chemicals Safely
The last few years have been marked by a surge in the number of scientific experiments thus performed and there is a reason behind the same as well. Earlier it was “legally” necessary to use a lab in a university or a similar institution to conduct a scientific...
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Eli Lilly signs up to $1.12 billion deal with private gene-editing firm Seamless
By Mariam Sunny and Bhanvi Satija Jan 28 (Reuters) - U.S. drugmaker Eli Lilly signed an agreement worth up to $1.12 billion with Seamless Therapeutics, the Germany-based startup said on Wednesday, to develop and commercialize treatments for hearing loss using the...
SpaceX launches advanced GPS satellite for US Space Force (video, photos)
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: SpaceXSpaceX launched an advanced, jam-resistant GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force from Florida on Tuesday night (Jan. 27).A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the...
40 years after the space shuttle Challenger disaster, spaceflight remains far from routine
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.The space shuttle Challenger launched from Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 28, 1986 with a crew of seven astronauts aboard. An accident 73 seconds after liftoff claimed...
The Challenger shuttle disaster that killed 7 crew members was 40 years ago. What happened and how they’re being remembered.
Forty years ago, the U.S. space shuttle Challenger set out on a mission to not just launch satellites but to carry the first teacher into space and to inspire the promise of spaceflight into classrooms. The seven crew members reflected a broad spectrum of American...
Doomsday Clock 2026: Scientists set new time
At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, nearly eight decades later, the clock was set at 85 seconds to midnight — the closest the timepiece has...
Shaped by ancient humans, 430,000-year-old wooden tools are the oldest ever found
The earliest known hand-held wooden tools, used by our early human ancestors around 430,000 years ago, have been uncovered by researchers at an archeological site in Greece.One is made from the trunk of an alder tree and could have been used for digging, and the other...
NASA’s Artemis II crewed mission to the Moon shows how US space strategy has changed since Apollo – and contrasts with China’s closed program
When Apollo 13 looped around the Moon in April 1970, more than 40 million people around the world watched the United States recover from a potential catastrophe. An oxygen tank explosion turned a planned landing into an urgent exercise in problem-solving, and the...
Venus may get a huge meteor shower this July, thanks to a long-ago asteroid breakup
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.An artist's impression of an asteroid fragmenting into multiple chunks. | Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechVenus could experience a dramatic meteor shower this summer, the...
Magnetic avalanches on the sun reveal the hidden engine powering solar flares
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.The sun lashes out with a powerful solar flare. Scientists may now know how these outflows are generated. | Credit: ESA/NASA/SOHOA giant solar flare on our sun was...
Super-Earth exoplanets may have built-in magnetic protection from churning magma — and that’s good news for life
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.A new experiment created the pressure experienced at the core of an alien world more than three times larger than Earth — a super-Earth — to investigate what happens...
Artemis 2 astronauts enter quarantine ahead of historic NASA moon launch
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.The Artemis 2 crew poses in front of an Orion simulator Jan. 23, 2026 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. From left: Reid Wiseman, Christina Koch, Jeremy...
Scientists recover the oldest wooden tools from a site in Greece
NEW YORK (AP) — Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years.One is a spindly stick about 2 1/2 feet (80 centimeters) long that could have been used for digging in the mud. The other is a...