Japan Earthquake Today: 5.9-Magnitude Quake Strikes Ibaraki, Strong Shaking Hits Tokyo, Weeks After Deadly Tremor
Tokyo and the eastern Kanto region were shaken at around 2 am Sunday by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake…
White Dwarf-Red Dwarf Binaries Power Cosmic Lasers
Astronomers have been intrigued by a certain type of binary systems that pulse with long-period bursts of radio…
Quantum Fluctuations Break a Crystal’s Symmetry Rules
Illuminating the crystal with light with a built-in sense of rotation (white beam) reveals regions where the star-of-David…
Fears for sea lions after mass bird mortality events at breeding grounds
There are concerns the endangered Australian sea lion could be devastated by bird flu, with mass bird deaths…
There Are Fungi in The Ocean, And They May Be Way More Important Than We Realized : ScienceAlert
Hidden inside tree trunks, between grains of soil, deep within our bodies, and below our feet, fungi seem…
Why big coffee is betting billions on sustainability
Why big coffee is betting billions on sustainability Why are some of the world’s largest coffee companies betting…
Skylab completists, clear some shelf space for 26 DVDs
offbeat Decades of archive hunting recover downlinks, silent reels, and footage once thought lost The team behind the…
CERN physicists recreate matter from the early universe using ‘Little Big Bangs’
Physicists created signs of primordial quark-gluon plasma by colliding oxygen and neon nuclei, much smaller nuclei than traditionally…
It’s longer than a shipping container, has a metre-wide mouth and a dorsal fin the length of a baseball bat: 9 biggest, most gigantic sharks on the planet
Some of the world’s most gigantic creatures can be found in the ocean. That’s because the buoyant water supports their…
On this day in space! Aug. 22, 1963: X-15 sets world altitude record
On Aug. 22, 1963, U.S. Air Force Captain Joe Walker flew an X-15 rocket plane higher than any…
A Manhattan-Sized Ice Island Just Broke Off Greenland
Petermann Glacier has shed a rare, Manhattan-sized Arctic ice island that researchers had watched develop for years. Credit:…
JWST finds early galaxies may be 4 times more massive than thought
Astronomers have found that some of the largest galaxies in the early universe contained many more small stars…