‘A sad inevitability’: after decades of climate warnings, why is Europe so unprepared for rising heat? | Extreme heat
On Wednesday, Pierre Masselot received a text from his daughter’s nursery – less than 50 miles from the…
Crystalline Clocks Confirm Earth’s Oldest Crater
A chip of zircon found in Western Australian rocks at a place called North Pole Dome revealed the…
NASA Moon Base Could Become Earth’s First Defense Against Alien Microbes
Scientists say the Moon could serve as Earth’s first biological shield by housing a secure facility for quarantining…
This is why Europe was so fatally unprepared for the June heatwave
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NASA used a drone to deliver a human kidney. Is this the future of transplant transport?
NASA is hoping to use drones to speed up organ delivery for transplant patients. A flight test earlier…
Researchers Demonstrate Stable Quantum Entanglement With Dissipation Control
Aziza Almanakly and colleagues at Research Laboratory of Electronics, in collaboration with Chalmers University of Technology, MIT and…
Science news this week: Life on Mars, weird water and a curious human cousin
This week, we’ve taken one tantalizing step closer to finding out if there really was life on Mars,…
BBC Audio | CrowdScience | Do animals care about the past?
“What separates humans from animals, is an interest in the past”. That’s a 900-year-old quote from a textbook…
Strange glowing ‘bow-and-arrow’ structure may be a giant cosmic shock wave created by a supersonic galaxy collision
A bizarre radio galaxy discovered by a citizen scientist has left astronomers puzzled, revealing a never-before-seen “bow-and-arrow” structure…
Distant galaxy could produce universe’s most mysterious particles
A distant star-forming galaxy nicknamed the “Shadow Blaster” could have sent a ghostly cosmic particle hurtling toward Earth.…
Researchers tickle gorillas, other apes and find out they giggle
NEW YORK — Humans and great apes have been giggling in similar ways since branching off the evolutionary tree, a…
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station witness 16 sunrises and 16 sunsets every 24 hours, orbiting Earth once every 90 minutes while traveling 5 miles a second
Aboard the International Space Station right now, crew members are watching the Sun drop below Earth’s limb roughly…