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Enceladus is a tiny world holding mighty secrets, and according to a new study, one of those secrets could be life.In research published yesterday in Nature Communications, a University of Vienna-led team reported that Earth-based bacteria survived in simulated Enceladus-like conditions. This work could be the key to finding life beyond Earth.Enceladus is a moon of Saturn with a radius of around 150 miles. While its surface is covered by an ice shell, evidence of geysers indicates that there’s a deep ocean below....

Media Platforms Design TeamCompared to Soylent, which is chemical powders, flour, and oil, and Soylent Green, which is people, seems downright normal. It’s not, of course: Like Soylent Green and Soylent, Ambronite is a “drinkable meal” intended to replace a regular, chewable meal. Made of 20 ingredients—including stinging nettles, spinach, and wild sea-buckthorn—that you mix with water, each package of Ambronite has 500 calories and, its founders proclaim, all the nutrients you need to be healthy....

The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of a revolutionary uncrewed surface ship, one capable of traveling long distances and conducting missions all without a human on board. The Sea Hunter Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel—or ACTUV for short—could someday lead to fleets of unmanned warships plying the world’s oceans, doing everything from hunting submarines to acting as spy ships.The U.S. Navy ordered the ACTUV in 2012 as part of the Pentagon’s broader push into unmanned air, sea, and land systems....

Nearly 1,000 people, including busloads of local school kids, have gathered at Orbital ATK’s rocket manufacturing facility in Promontory, Utah. They have come to catch a glimpse of the past and future of rocketry. And to see a big boom.Sitting on a test stand, its exhaust pointed at an empty section of Utah scrubland, is a SR118 solid rocket motor. It was originally built to launch Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles, a system that the Air Force discontinued in 2002....

More than 250 of the U.S. Army’s Abrams tanks will be equipped with a system designed to sense and destroy incoming anti-tank warheads. Breaking Defense reports the U.S. Army, as part of its 2019 budget, will purchase 261 Trophy anti-tank active protection systems (APS) for its Abrams tanks. The upgrades are designed to keep the tank alive on battlefields where advanced Russian rockets and missiles are a threat.The upgrades come after a two-year Army study into so-called active protection systems for its armored vehicles....

Media Platforms Design TeamLeonid meteor blast on Nov. 18, 2001, left this eerie ring. Do you think that UFOs are alien spacecraft? (surveys)The skies over Earth are home to regular displays of bizarre natural lights that could be mistaken for UFOs. * Venus: It’s responsible for the greatest number of sightings–including one by Jimmy Carter in 1969. The planet usually appears just above the horizon around dusk or dawn; it trails only the moon in luminosity; and depending on the air mass in front of the viewer, the planet can be magnified into a ball or seem to skip around....

We have squared up to the double unbroken yellow lines that separate the taxiway from runway 28 at Caldwell Airport in Fairfield, New Jersey. It is my second flight lesson inside Six-Two Romeo. My instructor is Tom Fischer: shaved head, tinted specs, a fresh company polo every day. Between lessons, Tom puts out fires set by regulators, mechanics, staff instructors, student pilots, calls of nature, and the demands of lunch. And that’s just what I know about....

Media Platforms Design TeamGENESISPrice Tag: $1.2 billionCompletion Date: 2009Total Length: 1180 feetPassengers: 6400In the cruise ship industry, the battle for bragging rights has turned into a QE2-size slugfest. In 2003, Cunard stole the crown for world’s largest cruise ship when it launched the 151,410-ton Queen Mary 2; three years later Royal Caribbean topped it with the 154,000-ton Freedom of the Seas. Now, Royal Caribbean is set to raise the stakes yet again with the 220,000-ton Genesis, slated to launch in 2009 from a shipyard in Turku, Finland....

Media Platforms Design TeamBack in the day when Bentleys and Rolls-Royces hailed from the same Crewe factory, the “Flying B” varieties were considered the car of choice for drivers, while the Rollers were the undisputed pick for those who preferred to be chauffered.Fast forward to 2013, and the new world order has dramatically shifted the relationship between those once entwined manufacturers. While Rolls-Royce has re-emerged under the tutelege of BMW AG, Bentley has redefined itself under the auspices of the Volkswagen Group....

23andMe, known for its at-home DNA testing kit, has developed its first in-house drug based on users’ aggregate DNA profiles.This new drug is targeted at the skin condition psoriasis. The company used aggregate DNA information from 80 percent of its 10 million users who gave permission for the company to use data for research purposes.You probably signed up for a 23andMe profile because you wanted to find out where your family is from—not because you wanted to help develop a new drug from your spit....

Media Platforms Design TeamBarefoot running is in for 2010. The fringe phenomenon has become mainstream, as witnessed by a popular book (, by Christopher McDougall, Knopf, a best-seller for 26 weeks and counting), by runners and coaches who are loudly backing natural biomechanics in training, and by the many stories of runners who’ve shed both shoes and chronic injuries. While the science has yet to give the full weight of a peer-reviewed thumbs up (or thumbs down, for that matter), casual joggers and ultra-marathoners alike are getting rid of supportive shoes and giving the ground a feel with their feet....

The armed forces of Belarus have demonstrated a new quadcopter drone that can carry a tank-killing rocket launcher. The drone carries a RPG-26 single-shot rocket that is remotely fired by the drone operator. And while the drone is of questionable effectiveness as a tank destroyer, it is a deadly harbinger of things to come on the unmanned battlefield.A video taken on May 18 at the Losvido Training Ground in Belarus shows off the new drone....

Supersonic airliners are poised for a comeback. But while we await the arrival of a new generation of commercial jets that break the sound barrier, Boeing is working on another way to speed up air travel: making planes lighter and more energy efficient. The aviation giant is building an ultra-lightweight folding “transonic” wing, which Boeing says will allow larger planes to fly at higher altitudes while nearly scraping the speed of sound, which is consistent with the speed of many of today’s airliners....

Although California’s six years of drought finally came to end on in April this year, the state morphed because of the extreme lack of rain. New NASA research shows that the drought altered the Sierra Mountains, making them even taller. From 2011 to 2015, at the height of the drought, the mountain range raised itself by a full inch.The Earth’s surface falls when water weighs it down, and when the water is removed it starts to rise....

China is no long making more artificial islands to bolster its territorial claims in the South China Sea—it has moved on to developing them, adding aircraft hangars, communications equipment, and weapons positions. That’s one conclusion of the Pentagon’s annual report on the Chinese military, and it’s a finding that contradicts Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s pledge to not militarize the contested region, which is also claimed by many of China’s neighbors.In 2009, Beijing set off alarm bells by circulating a map in which it appeared to claim up to 90 percent of the South China Sea....

Uranus is a weird planet. For starters, it’s pretty much sideways, which doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. All of the solar system’s other planets rotate around the same plane that they orbit in, but Uranus is different. Scientists think the reason Uranus’s axis is tilted sideways is because the planet experienced a violent collision early in its lifetime. Now, new research reveals that the same collision could also explain where the planet’s moons came from....

Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel have figured out a way to steal information from an isolated computer not connected to the internet.By taking advantage of small changes in color and brightness on LCD monitors, bad actors could use cameras to “see through” the ordinary screen’s content, revealing vulnerable data.Although this kind of attack would be complicated to pull off, it’s an example of ways that researchers are trying to stay one step ahead of the hackers....

Have you ever wanted your own fighter jet? Even better, one with an extra seat to take a friend to Mach 2? If so, and if you have nearly five million dollars in the bank, you’re in luck: A U.S.-based used airplane broker is selling a MiG-29UB fighter jet. The Cold War–era fighter has less than a thousand hours on it, and with proper maintenance you’ll be able to fly for thousands more....

Media Platforms Design TeamIf there’s one thing the past few years of theatrical 3D has taught us, it’s that not all 3D is created equal. For every block-busting , which was conceived and shot natively in 3D, there are a handful of stinkers that seem to have (and in many ways, actually did) tack on 3D at the last minute as a way to add a couple of dollars to ticket prices....

Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander is slated to land on the moon’s South Pole today between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. ET.If all goes well, India will become the fourth country to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon and the first to land on the moon’s South Pole.See where you can watch it all go down.Update 5:34 p.m. : Indian Space Research Organization said in a tweet that the agency lost contact with the Vikram lander within just 1....