NASA Announces Next Steps for Swift Rescue Mission
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, launched in 2004 to study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), has vastly outlived its original…
Webb reveals the chaotic aftermath of a galaxy merger
Webb peers into Arp 263, a nearby irregular galaxy still bearing the scars of a violent merger and…
Cameras on whale shark fins caught them feeding as deep as 68.8 metres
A whale shark tips nose down, holds its tail almost still, and sinks. The camera watching this is…
The last woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island until about 4,000 years ago, and a 2024 genetic study found inbreeding had not doomed them to a slow decline — their population appears to have vanished suddenly, for reasons that remain unresolved
A small group of woolly mammoths clung to a scrap of land off the Siberian coast for roughly…
A New Kind of Plastic Vaporizes When Heated And Then Reassembles Itself : ScienceAlert
The world is drowning in plastic waste. Our bodies are full of microplastics and no environment is safe.…
Thousands of Interstellar Objects May Be Lurking in Our Solar System
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that went interstellar, entombed the sky, hit…
Random walks get pushy | Santa Fe Institute
When physicists study a “random walk,” they’re investigating the path followed when you’re allowed to take each step…
Macaw Tries To Break a Branch While Standing on the Wrong Side of It
Andrea (@andreac2350) is an animal lover with a houseful of pets, including several birds. She recently brought home…
Spiders are barely noticed underfoot, but a peer-reviewed 2017 estimate put their annual global prey kill at 400–800 million tonnes — a range whose upper end is about twice the roughly 400 million tonnes of meat and fish humans consume each year
Most of us file spiders under one of two headings. Either they are pests to squash or usher…
Rising seas, rising stakes: What increasing sea-levels mean to humanity
Land is being inundated, homes are flooding, livelihoods are being lost, driving significant hardships on people in search…
Artemis II astronauts receive nation’s highest space honor for their successful moonshot | Artemis II
The Artemis II astronauts who flew around the moon in April received the US’s highest space honor on…
Tiny Wrinkles in Graphene Turn It Into a Battery, Physicists Find : ScienceAlert
Graphene is a very special material, only one atom thick. It has a rare combination of properties, including…