NASA Modernizes Commercial Airline Systems
NASA’s researchers know that when you settle into your seat on a commercial flight, you expect a smooth…
Lu+ optical frequency references with accuracy verified at the 19th digit
Experimental sequence Each interrogation beginsonly after both ions have been subjected to Doppler cooling and prepared in the…
Olive ridley sea turtle nests in historic first on Southern California coast
A sea turtle has made its nest on the West Coast for the first time on record, laying…
Greenland Ice Shelf Weakened by Estuary Before Calving
In August 2026, an iceberg the size of Manhattan broke away from the Petermann Ice Shelf in northern…
178 Fossil Fuel Giants Have Already Locked In Centuries of Warming
The vast majority of planet-warming emissions come from just 178 oil, gas, and cement companies known as the…
SpaceX stacks massive Starship rocket ahead of 1st orbital launch attempt (video)
SpaceX has completed assembly of the Starship rocket slated to launch the test vehicle’s most ambitious mission to…
Gravitational torque drives multidecadal variations in length of day
Torque and changes in the LOD An axial torque Γz acting on the mantle causes a change in…
Great white shark attacks ‘ghost dolphin’ in Brazil. A predation event like this has never been recorded here before
Researchers have found and recorded the first forensic evidence of a white shark attacking a Franciscana dolphin along the coast…
NASA Aircraft Set for Low-Altitude Research in Colorado
A photo of the Dynamic Aviation A200 aircraft, which will conduct low-flying research flights over farmland near Greeley,…
UK to join EU ocean science scheme to better predict extreme weather events | Climate crisis
Britain is to join a major new ocean science programme, led by the EU, to better forecast extreme…
Aurora season is back! Pilot captures spectacular northern lights from 37,000 ft
Aurora season is well underway, folks, and pilot Matt Melnyk arguably has one of the best seats in…
A student built a particle detector for just $100; the pocket-sized device can track invisible particles raining down from space at light’s speed; it is now being used in high-altitude balloon missions and major physics experiments
A device that can detect particles arriving from space does not necessarily require a multimillion-dollar laboratory. A compact…