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On our radar today: 1) A star mystery is solved; 2) U.S. amphibians are disappearing at an alarming rate; 3) You can now rent a launch pad from NASA, and…
On our radar today: 1) Astronomers spot two galaxies merging; 2) An octogenarian has become the oldest to reach the summit of Mount Everest; 3) A speedy new dinosaur has been found in Canada, and…
On our radar today: 1) Fire ants inspire new rescue robots; 2) NASA plans on printing pizza in space; 3) T. Rex’s cousin ate more like a falcon than a crocodile, and…
On our radar today: 1) A tornado in Oklahoma kills at least 91 people; 2) The largest python ever caught in Florida; 3) Researchers find that a piece of hair might be able to measure your soda intake, and…
On our radar today: 1) Honeybees are being trained to hunt land mines; 2) The world’s smallest liquid droplets have been created; 3) An anteater’s virgin birth in Connecticut, and…
On our radar today: 1) People need to learn to farm to live on Mars; 2) A Japanese reactor lies on an active fault line; 3) Shocks to the brain may improve your math skills, and…
Posted by The top 10 headlines on our radar today: A new planet has been discovered thanks to Einstein’s relativity theory, new research suggests that humans’ middle ear bones evolved early, and…
The top 10 stories on our radar today: Researchers have pinpointed the bacteria responsible for mass deaths in the 6th century, the UN suggests people should eat more bugs, and…
The top 10 headlines on our radar today: Astronauts are dealing with a dangerous leak on the International Space Station, stunning timelapses of Earth show how the planet has changed in the last few decades, and…
The top 10 stories on our radar today: Scientists discover that a moth has the best hearing in the animal kingdom, geologists study the mystery behind Earth’s ‘eternal flames,’ and…
Posted by How far would you go to push the bounds of discovery? What would you risk? From the top of Mount Everest to the surface of the Moon, astronaut Buzz Aldrin and mountaineer Conrad Anker have risked their lives to undertake humankind’s most stunning achievements.
The top 10 news stories on our radar today: A volcano in the Philippines has erupted and taken the lives of at least five people, NASA telescopes caught a glimpse of the most powerful star explosion ever seen, and…
The top 10 new stories on our radar today: Small eruptions have been detected at a volcano in Alaska, moles in the UK are helping archaeologists dig up ancient Roman artifacts, and…
The top 10 headlines on our radar today: Scientists are developing a spacecraft that will propel towards the sun, a lunar real estate agent has already sold a chunk of land on the moon, and…
The top 10 stories on our radar today: Archaeologists find evidence of cannibalism at historic Jamestown, zombie worms munch on whale bones, and…
The top 10 stories on our radar today: Atoms star in the world’s smallest movie, archaeologists find mysterious orbs in an ancient Mexican temple, and…
On National Geographic’s radar today: Scientists create world’s first glow-in-the-dark sheep, a newly developed skin may allow robots to feel, and…
On our radar today: Video footage shows killer whales attacking sperm whales, the space debris issue is becoming more and more dire, and…
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In honor of its launch 23 years ago the Hubble Space Telescope snapped a breathtaking, never-before-seen view of one of the most photogenic cosmic vistas in the night sky. Dubbed the Horsehead nebula because of its obvious resemblance to a steed or chess piece in profile, this dark cloud of gas and dust sits 1,500…
On our radar today: 1) Scientists discover a pair of Earth-like planets; 2) Hurricane Sandy shook more than just the East Coast; 3) A telescope in Chile sees more in an hour than older telescopes see in decades, and…
Scientists Create “Nano-Suits” That Allow Bugs to Survive in A Vacuum
Posted by Alyson Foster on April 18, 2013 
Scientists at the Hamamatsu University School of Medicine in Japan have come up with a special kind of spacesuit that can help keep insects alive in a vacuum. Unlike the gear astronauts wear, the nano-suit — as scientists are calling it — is more than 1,000 times thinner than a human hair and it’s made using electrons.
On our radar today: A ‘living fossil’ fish gets its genome sequenced, x-rays show remnants of an ancient supernova, and…
On our radar today: The Mars One organization is looking for astronauts and it could be you, 70 years later and the hunt is on to bring the last Nazis to justice, and…
On our radar today: The tragedy in Boston joins a number of other attacks on sporting events throughout history; a 7.8 magnitude quake rocks Iran, and…
On our radar today: The Supreme Court will debate whether we can—or should—patent genes; enormous, slimy snails are invading Florida; a lab-grown kidney has been successfully implanted into live animals; and…
