Afforestation and reforestation support coupled gains in soil life and carbon storage worldwide
Bastin, J. F. et al. The global tree restoration potential. Science 365, 76–79 (2019). Article CAS PubMed Google…
NASA awards SpaceX $946 million for 3 more astronaut missions to the ISS
SpaceX will continue launching astronauts for NASA for at least another four years. The agency just awarded Elon…
Chimpanzee mothers offer new clues about how humans respond to death
Chimpanzee mothers may carry dead infants longer depending on infant age, cause of death, maternal care, and temperature.…
Why does blond hair tend to darken with age?
If your blond preteen seems to be turning into a brunette, you’re not imagining things. For some children,…
A 37 percent carpet recycling rate in 1 state stands against 9 percent for the rest of the country, but the pounds it actually collected have been falling for three years
Pick up a three foot offcut of old carpet and the weight is wrong. It feels like a…
Final ViaSat-3 enters service as SES wraps up O3b mPower launch campaign
TAMPA, Fla. — The third and final terabit-class ViaSat-3 broadband satellite has entered service over the Americas, the…
Photographer Hides Behind Rock as Herd of 400 Wild Reindeer Comes Charging at Him
Image credit: Anton Freyr Birgisson A nature photographer filmed the extraordinary moment he had to hide behind a…
Methone, a moon of Saturn only about three kilometres across, has no observed craters larger than 130 metres: its porous icy surface may slowly shift and erase impact scars, while Saturn’s tides and the moon’s rotation mould it into a smooth, egg-like shape.
Saturn’s satellite system ranges from Titan, larger than Mercury, to bodies so small that a brisk cyclist could…
Retired wind turbines are being transformed into tiny solar-powered houses and recycled skis by a Swedish company
As much as wind turbines are important, once their blades are decommissioned, all that’s left for them is…
In 2004, scientists began installing 1,660 orange water tanks the size of small rooms across 3,000 square kilometers of Argentine grassland, and two decades later that grid is still waiting for cosmic rays far more energetic than any particle accelerator has produced to strike water and flash blue
Twenty-two years ago, trucks started rolling across Mendoza province in western Argentina, dropping off tanks that look, from…
Mountain lion tranquilized, captured in SF’s Outer Sunset
The Brief A mountain lion was spotted in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset neighborhood Friday morning. The animal was…
Scientists Find a Universal Rule for Black Hole Jets
Black holes of all sizes seem to follow the same playbook: when matter falls in, jets blast out.…