Hayabusa2 drops MASCOT lander onto Ryugu's surface Japan's Hayabusa2 has deployed another lander onto the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. The MASCOT, a [...]

Mother giraffes pass spot patterns down to offspring, study says (Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP/Getty Images) Baby giraffes inherit their spot patterns from their mothers, a [...]

Japan to test mini space elevator Japanese scientists will send a miniature version of a space elevator to the International Space Station on [...]

Hidden sea life may lure great white sharks Scientists with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in California say they may have found [...]

Plastics found on one-third of Asia-Pacific's coral reefs One-third of the Asia-Pacific region's coral reefs are entangled in over 11 billion plastic items, [...]

World must protect half of Earth's wildlife area Protecting half of all land and oceans on Earth by 2050 is key to preserving [...]

Researchers seek plastic-to-fuel technologies Researchers around the world are exploring new methods for converting plastic waste to fuel, Scarlett Evans writes. Researchers from [...]

3D-printing research takes science closer to a bionic eye Researchers at the University of Minnesota have 3D printed an array of silver particles [...]

Japanese spacecraft to deploy asteroid rovers next month The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft is scheduled to deploy its first robots, Rover 1A and Rover 1B, [...]