How and when to see a double meteor shower this week
A double meteor shower peak will occur this week — but sky-gazers might have a difficult time catching…
Volunteer activities fully start in quake-hit Kumamoto
HIKAWA, KUMAMOTO PREF. – Volunteers have fully started their activities in Kumamoto Prefecture, which was hit hard by…
Perseid meteor shower set to dazzle northern hemisphere this week | Meteors
The Perseid summer light show is back, and viewing conditions are especially promising across the northern hemisphere. The…
Blue whales can weigh 330,000 pounds, eat six tons of krill a day and communicate through powerful underwater songs |
The blue whale is not merely the biggest animal alive today. At roughly 33 metres in length, it…
NASA’s MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission studied the Red Planet’s atmosphere for more than a decade.…
Jeff Bezos Harshly Criticized for $200 Million Pledge to Protect the World’s Most Endangered Species
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and his actor buddy Leonardo DiCaprio are catching some heavy flak recently, but for…
China’s 2035 moon base could see robot dogs patrol, build and explore
In anticipation of its International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), China intends to usher in the new era of…
Perfect particle transmission through duality defects
Callan, C. G. Jr. Disappearing dyons. Phys. Rev. D 25, 2141–2146 (1982). Article ADS Google Scholar Rubakov, V.…
Operation Beluga — or how a Soviet ice breaker played music to thousands of ice-trapped whales to save them from starving
Credit: Library of Congress collection. The Soviet Union now belongs largely to memory and history books, and many…
Mercury is the Solar System’s smallest planet, but its metallic core fills about 85 per cent of its radius, leaving a rocky shell so thin that cooling has crumpled the surface into cliffs hundreds of kilometres long
Mercury is the smallest planet in the Solar System, but most of the distance from its centre to…
Hydraulic traits govern opposing range shifts of montane trees under warming
Sayre, R. et al. A new high-resolution map of world mountains and an online tool for visualizing and…
‘You’re hit with a slam of shadow’: Nasa’s air mission to capture rare eclipse data | Solar eclipses
After lunch on Wednesday, two Nasa aviators will climb into a research plane and take off from Keflavik…