As seas rise, American history could be washed away | Climate crisis
Sean Romo stops digging the moment he sees a faint line emerge in the sandy Virginia soil. It’s…
Isar Aerospace to launch German-built Planet imaging satellite
WASHINGTON — Isar Aerospace won a contract from Planet’s German subsidiary to launch an imaging satellite, demonstrating an…
Scientists Thought Ravens Followed Wolves for Food. They Were Wrong. Ravens Predict Them
Two ravens soar above a wolf pack in Yellowstone. This type of short-distance trailing is common, but prolonged…
‘Stellar death is not the end’: James Webb Space Telescope glimpses the fate of the solar system in a weird exoplanet orbiting a dead star
Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe an oddball gas giant exoplanet orbiting a…
A bargain price for reaching net zero in Britain | Climate crisis
I enjoyed Jonathan Freedland’s lampooning of climate sceptics suffering in the recent heatwave (Climate sceptics cheering as they…
Ars Live recap: When are the big rockets NASA desperately needs going to be ready?
New Glenn Catastrophe Aftermath: What’s Next for the Space Industry? | Ars Live This week Ars hosted a…
A supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy cluster has erupted after approximately 100 million years of complete silence, unleashing a jet of magnetised plasma across nearly a million light-years of space in what the astronomers who observed it have described as a cosmic volcano coming back to life after ages of calm
Every large galaxy in the observable universe is thought to host a supermassive black hole at its centre.…
Venezuelan security guard pulled alive from building eight days after quakes
Rescuers pulled a 43-year-old security guard alive from a collapsed basement, ending a gruelling days-long operation that became…
Drones Gain Pain Sense to Predict Instability
Imagine you’re running and you sprain your ankle. The pain makes you gingerly limp the rest of the…
China’s Energy Future Runs on Coal and Solar
China will continue spending heavily on both coal and alternative energy, such as wind and solar, over the…
Scientists uncover a giant hidden magma system beneath Mars
Mars looks like a planet whose best days are long behind it. Its volcanoes are extinct, its crust…
The universe isn’t as uniform as we thought
Modern cosmology rests on a simple assumption: if we look on large enough scales, matter should be distributed…