First Animals May Have Appeared 200 Million Years Earlier than Their Oldest Fossils Suggest
The oldest undisputed animal fossils, from the Ediacaran biota, are about 574 million years old, but chemical traces…
A New Space Mission Just Captured The Northern Lights Like Never Before
A European-Chinese spacecraft has captured the full ring of the northern lights around the North Pole in ultraviolet…
On this day in space! Oct. 2, 2015: The United Launch Alliance launches its 100th rocket with Atlas V flight for Mexico
On Oct. 2, 2015, the United Launch Alliance launched its 100th rocket! The United Launch Alliance (ULA) is…
On a 60-acre campus in Massachusetts, 18 superconducting magnets chilled to 8 kelvin are being assembled around a chamber that will bottle plasma 6 times hotter than the sun’s core, and the cryogenic plant hit its first commissioning target
A cryogenic plant beneath a converted industrial building in Devens, Massachusetts, hit minus 445 degrees Fahrenheit on September…
Gang of eight sperm whales sink yacht after ramming boat in South Pacific
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Scientists connect cosmic fingerprints of the universe’s first stars with MEGATRON simulation
MEGATRON is a good guy!?! Well, at least to cosmologists who are using this simulation to transform (sorry,…
How El Niño manages to cause both drought and floods
The Pacific Ocean is warming unusually quickly, and this year’s El Niño has already surpassed previous records. Forecasters…
Scientists Thought Mars’s North Polar Ice Was 25% Dust. They Were Way Off
When NASA’s Mars Phoenix mission successfully sampled ice from the Martian arctic regions, it made astrobiological history. This…
Australia began turning waste plastic into railway sleepers in 2015, saving timber; the recycled material could last up to 50 years | World News
Australia began experimenting with railway sleepers made from recycled plastic in 2015, turning material that might otherwise have…
New center boosts nuclear isotope output for deep-space missions
Canada is moving to expand its role in supplying nuclear isotopes that could power spacecraft on long-duration missions.…
SpaceX Just Launched 3 Rockets in 13 Hours. Here’s What Investors Need to Know Right Now.
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SPCX +7.73%) just launched three rockets in less than 13 hours, a pretty incredible…
Supply chain and environmental implications of waste-to-graphite
Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2024 https://www.iea.org/reports/global-critical-minerals-outlook-2024 (International Energy Agency, 2024). Bhattacharyya, S. et al. Graphite: the new critical…