Risks mount for sea eagle along TN coast due to habitat loss, says study
RAMANATHAPURAM: The White-bellied Sea Eagle, a majestic coastal raptor species, is facing increasing threats in Tamil Nadu due…
A rare supernova peeled back a star’s layers and revealed a hidden secret
Astronomers have glimpsed the inner structure of a dying star in a rare kind of cosmic explosion called…
Scientists estimate giant Caribbean sponge may be more than 2,300 years old and still filtering seawater today |
Imagine an animal that began its life centuries before the Roman Empire reached its height and has quietly…
China was effectively shut out of the International Space Station after the United States passed the Wolf Amendment in 2011, so it built its own. If the ISS retires on schedule around 2030 and no commercial successor is ready, China’s Tiangong could become the only permanently crewed outpost in Earth orbit.
The International Space Station is still the larger and more international laboratory in orbit. Tiangong is smaller, newer,…
A superconductivity record that stood for 30 years has been broken
For more than 30 years, one number stood as a stubborn barrier in superconductivity research: 133 kelvin, or…
Deuterium in Comets Tell Interesting Tales
Comets have played an interesting role in astronomy history. From antiquity, many cultures saw them omens or spirits,…
Giant Fire Tornadoes Could Help Clean Oil Spills, Scientists Say : ScienceAlert
Our oceans are under constant threat. In addition to plastic pollution, fentanyl-laden sewage, and skinny-dippers slathered in reef-harming…
Hot Jupiter CoRoT-2b Rotates Backward to Orbit
Hot Jupiter exoplanets have completely changed how we look at the universe. This is because before the first…
Scientists Think They’ve Uncovered the 15-Million-Year-Old Origin of Laughter
Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that yucked it up, went interstellar, controlled…
Lethbridge, Alberta, crowned Canada’s ‘most affordable city’
With some big-city dwellers still considering relocation, one report has found that an Alberta city ranked first in…
SpaceX stock has cooled. Hiring for space economy jobs hasn’t
Clearly, there’s money to be made in space. SpaceX’s historic initial public offering minted a $2 trillion company.…
There Is a Universal Law in The Shape of All Poop, Physicists Reveal : ScienceAlert
Charles Darwin has gone down in history for writing On the Origin of Species, but that wasn’t his…