British couple named among 13 killed in Spanish wildfires | Wildfires
A British couple have been named among the 13 people killed by wildfires in Spain, as authorities race…
Did SpaceX puncture the AI bubble?
At the beginning of June, the Nasdaq hit a record high, climbing above 27,000. A week later, after…
Archaeologists Just Found the Earliest Known Named Scientist in the Ancient Americas
In 2010, archaeologist David Stuart and colleagues ran into a painted chamber at Xultun, a Maya relic in…
Around 252 million years ago, volcanoes across what is now Siberia erupted repeatedly for more than a million years, releasing perhaps 100,000 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide and helping wipe out roughly 90 per cent of marine species in the deadliest mass extinction Earth has ever known
The end-Permian extinction was not a single volcano exploding on one bad day. It was a long volcanic…
How China’s aerospace vision differs from Elon Musk’s SpaceX
China’s controlled seaborne recovery of a rocket booster using a net-capture vessel last week proved the viability and…
This Startup Wants to Use Space Mirrors to Light Up Earth at Night. Feds Just Said Go Ahead
California startup Reflect Orbital received clearance to launch its first satellite, aiming to build a constellation to illuminate…
The Late Ordovician extinction 443 million years ago struck in two pulses driven by opposite climate extremes: the first came as the planet cooled, glaciers spread and sea levels collapsed; then the ice retreated, the seas warmed and lost their oxygen, killing many of the species that had survived the cold
The Late Ordovician extinction, close to the Ordovician-Silurian boundary about 443 million years ago, is usually read as…
SpaceX Starship Flight 13 launch updates: SpaceX sets target date for next Starship rocket launch
SpaceX targeting July 16 for Starship Flight 13 The next Starship launch has arrived! SpaceX is targeting no…
Researchers froze the simplest amino acid to nearly minus 260°C and bombarded it with radiation that mimics cosmic rays — and it formed peptides, the building blocks of proteins, under conditions that exist before stars and planets are born
The experiment sounds almost designed to fail. Take glycine, the simplest amino acid used by life on Earth.…
Scientists Are Testing a New Underwater Habitat Where Humans Can Live on the Ocean Floor
The ocean covers 71% of the planet, and humans have colonized only a small fraction of it. That…
Astronauts insist space has a smell — a mix of seared steak, hot metal and welding fumes that clings to a suit after every spacewalk
The strangest thing about the smell of space is that no one can smell space directly. Vacuum does…
CUNY physicists recreate black hole energy extraction in a historic lab experiment
A black hole may be millions of light-years away, but some of its strangest physics has now been…