There’s no doubt that Google is a forward-thinking technology company, but one of its cofounders is forging his own path when it comes to the future of transportation. Today, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that Larry Page is the enigmatic figure behind Zee.Aero, a secretive startup focusing on flying cars. The roughly 150-person company was created in…

A new discovery made by a Yale University-led team of astronomers is shifting our understanding regarding how supermassive black holes feed. One billion light years, the elliptical galaxy Abell 2597 Brightest Cluster Galaxy is getting some strange galactic weather. “This so-called cold, chaotic accretion has been a major theoretical prediction in recent years, but this…

Roughly 30 horses and mules were rounded up into an eel-filled pool, trapped inside by a barrier of humans. Below, eels emerged from the muck and leapt from the water, pushing themselves onto the horses and shocking them. While a couple of the horses died and others were injured, the task was physically exhausting for…

The steppe bison (Bison priscus), a larger version of the modern bison (Bison bison), is generally thought to be the first bison species to touch North American soil. Unlike other Pleistocene fauna, bison proved durable during an extinction event that wiped out various species, including mammoths. Fossil evidence from these horned creatures was used by…

So-called “mission approval” for a private mission to the moon is imminent, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. Moon Express, a space startup founded in 2010, seeks the U.S. government’s approval to land a 20-pound payload on the moon next year, with the payload consisting of scientific hardware. “The expected decision ……

The underwater features look as if they were fabricated. Situated off the coast of the Greek island Zakynthos, they resemble cobblestone paths and circular column bases. Following their discovery, researchers posited that the features belonged to an ancient port that was submerged when the island was hit by tidal waves. Curiously, there were no other…

Scientists have gotten under Jupiter’s colorful, cloudy, stripy exterior. Using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), located in New Mexico, University of California, Berkeley researchers and colleagues have created the most detailed radio map of the gas giant, uncovering some of the processes occurring beneath the cloudy surface. The maps have a spatial…

If you’re like most people, you probably come into contact with moths when you step outside onto your porch at night. Look up, and there they are, bumbling about the porchlight, running into the bulb again, and again, and again. But these insects are also important pollinators. After the sun sets, moths pick up pollinating…

Hydrogen is a plentiful element accounting for roughly 73 percent of mass in the visible universe. It’s also integral to the field of radio astronomy, being raw fuel for star formation. Scientists with the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research broke a cosmic record recently. Utilizing the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Karl G. Jansky Very…