New Zealand on tsunami alert after 5.9-magnitude earthquake
New Zealand authorities on Thursday lifted the tsunami warning issued after a 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the west…
Pluto’s moon Charon may have once spun once every 14 hours, and its ancient mountains still record how it slowed down |
For decades, Charon was often viewed as the quieter half of the Pluto system, a frozen world marked…
Honey bee larvae can’t smell – and that’s actually a good thing
A honey bee larva does almost nothing for itself. It lies curled inside a six-sided wax cell while…
Earth has a natural thermostat and scientists finally know how it works
Earth appears to have a natural climate control system that has helped keep the planet habitable for more…
Targeted tropical forest restoration can offset deforestation-induced water flux losses
Mitchard, E. T. A. The tropical forest carbon cycle and climate change. Nature 559, 527–534 (2018). Article CAS …
Watch SpaceX launch 21 ‘data transport’ satellites for US military today
Starship won’t be the only SpaceX rocket flying today, if all goes according to plan. A Falcon 9…
Is dark matter ‘tuned in’ to a hidden dimension?
Two major mysteries in science, the nature of dark matter and the possible existence of higher dimensions, could…
How shark teeth and rose thorns solve the same problem
A new study has found that nature’s puncture tools – its fangs, stingers, spines and thorns – are…
Four first-time astronauts with only four hours of training took the first diagnostic X-rays ever captured on human beings in orbit, and radiologists on the ground judged the images clinically usable enough to catch a fracture a quarter-million miles from the nearest hospital
The first X-ray ever taken of a human body, in 1895, was of Wilhelm Röntgen’s wife’s hand, wedding…
Ontario wildfires: Smoke in Toronto prompts air quality warning
CTV National News: Smoke from dozens of wildfires suffocates Toronto skyline Wildfire smoke leaves Toronto with some of…
11 Years After Historic Flyby, Scientists Discover Giant Landslides on Pluto
In July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft gave us our first look at Pluto’s surface in spectacular detail.…
In the 1980s, Guam’s kingfisher vanished from the wild after invasive snakes devastated the island’s birds: The last 29 were rescued and four new chicks are now helping rebuild the species |
The Guam Kingfisher is known as the “sihek” in Chamorro, the native language of the Marianas Archipelago and…