‘It’s very moving’: The growth of dark sky tourism in Ireland as enthusiasts prepare for solar eclipse – The Irish Times
In a world of screens and urban haze, more people are finding something restorative in the act of…
Ireland gears up for ‘special’ partial solar eclipse
Parts of the world will see a rare total solar eclipse next week. Spain will be one of…
The AMOC stayed strong even as a major ocean “lifeline” nearly shut down
Scientists have long believed that warm, salty water flowing from the Indian Ocean around the southern tip of…
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto in 2015 and kept going, and in January 2019 it photographed a small icy world called Arrokoth four billion miles from the Sun, the most distant object ever visited, shaped like two snowballs gently stuck together since the solar system’s birth
At 5:33 UTC on 1 January 2019, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft passed roughly 3,500 kilometres from a small…
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…
For roughly a billion years of Earth’s deep past, the Moon’s ocean tides may have slowed the planet while a Sun-driven atmospheric tide sped it up, holding the day near 19 hours — but the rocks preserve a hypothesis, not a stopwatch
We built clocks around the day and then quietly began treating the day as though it were a…
The Mediterranean’s own odyssey: An ecological treasure feels the strain
Since Homer’s day, the Mediterranean has been much more than a beautiful body of water, where Odysseus journeyed…
NASA gives Voyager 2 a new lease on life nearly 48 years after launch
Nearly 48 years after its launch, NASA engineers have found a way to keep Voyager 2’s mission going…
8-foot python found living under family’s shed — and X-rays discovered what it ate
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Generative AI Could ‘Invent’ Biological Discoveries That Don’t Exist : ScienceAlert
An AI system could help scientists identify a promising new drug. But it could also convince them that…
Amazon sued over ‘dolphin safe’ and ‘sustainable’ seafood labels as consumers challenge how products are marketed
Amazon is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit from consumers who say the company misled shoppers about the environmental…
Elon Musk says SpaceX will hit $1 trillion in revenue by 2030 and build factories on the moon
Elon Musk loves a bold prediction. From humans colonizing Mars to flooding U.S. roads with robotaxis by 2020,…