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The dusty backbone of our spiral arm of the Milky Way is waving. We live near the end of a long, thin stream of gas, dust, and stars, which spirals outward from the center of the Milky Way. Our cosmic ...

Leaders of the Pacific Northwest’s space industry gather to discuss how far they’ve come — and how to go even farther. Read More Everett, Wash.-based Wave Motion Launch Corp. has won a contract worth ...

The control of matter motion at liquid–gas interfaces opens an opportunity to create two-dimensional materials with remotely tunable properties. In analogy with optical lattices used in ultra-cold ...

Over the years, we've seen a number of robots inspired by the animals kingdom – from jumpers and crawlers to swimmers and fliers. Inspired by the movement of snakes, an Israeli research team has now ...

Covering 71 per cent of the Earth’s surface, oceans are one of the world’s most valuable and yet largest untapped renewable ...