We finally know what Ötzi the iceman was wearing when he died 5300 years ago and other top stories.

• We finally know what Ötzi the iceman was wearing when he died 5300 years ago

  Ötzi the iceman is a scientific celebrity, and we finally know what he was wearing when he died 5,300 years ago. Using complex DNA techniques, researchers identified the material in everything from his hat to his shoelaces and learned a little more about life in the Copper Age. Hikers discovered Ötzi’s frozen body in the Alps in September 1991. The ice had preserved his body remarkably well, turning him into a natural mummy and making him a rich source of information about life in the Copper Ag..

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• NASA completes important milestone with Asteroid Redirect Mission

  

  NASA completes important milestone with Asteroid Redirect Mission Larry Klaes August 20th, 2016 Artist’s rendition of Asteroid Redirect Mission vehicle with a boulder. (Click to enlarge) Image Credit: NASA One of the keys to the successful permanent colonization of the Solar System are those celestial objects called variously asteroids, planetoids, minor planets, meteoroids, Near Earth Objects (NEOs), and even “vermin” by astronomers in the past frustrated by their unwanted light streaks appe..

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• Rare Discovery: Fast Facts About the Lady Washington Shipwreck Found on Lake Ontario

  

  Aug 20, 2016 06:24 AM EDT This week, explorers have discovered the remains of a rare ship on Lake Ontario. Here are some interesting facts about the ship named Lady Washington. It's Rare and Extremely Ancient The sloop dates back in the 18th century. It is believed to have been built in the Erie County in 1797 and is considered to be one of the first commercial sailing vessels in the Great Lakes. Tagged as the Lady Washington, the ship measures 53 feet long and is the second intact oldest ves..

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• How to fight global poverty from space

  

  Satellites are best known for helping smartphones map driving routes or televisions deliver programs. But now, data from some of the thousands of satellites orbiting Earth are helping track things like crop conditions on rural farms, illegal deforestation, and increasingly, poverty in the hard-to-reach places around the globe.As much as that data has the potential to provide invaluable information to humanitarian organizations, watchdog groups, and policymakers, there is too much of it to sift ..

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• Astronauts on spacewalk install new front door for visitors

  

  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Spacewalking astronauts installed a new front door for visitors at the International Space Station on Friday, the crucial first step in welcoming commercial crew capsules as soon as next year. The two Americans, Jeffrey Williams and Kate Rubins, hooked up the docking port – their major objective – in just a few hours. They were about to tackle some extra chores, but a problem cropped up with the right earpiece in Williams’ helmet and he had trouble hearing. Mission Contro..

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• China's new quantum satellite will try to teleport data outside the bounds of space and time

  

  This week, China launched the world’s first quantum satellite. So what exactly does this mean? “[T]he satellite is designed to establish ultra-secure quantum communications by transmitting uncrackable keys from space to the ground,” Xinhua, China’s state news agency, wrote after the equipment was launched on a rocket from the Gobi desert. “It could also conduct experiments on the bizarre features of quantum theories, such as entanglement.” Uncrackable keys? Bizarre features? Both true. This sat..

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