Gibbons reveal an evolutionary secret hidden in the eyes
Gibbons focus strongly on eyes, especially other gibbons’ eyes, offering clues about the evolution of primate social attention.…
Earth is in the minority. There may be more ‘starship’ planets wandering space than planets orbiting suns – and they could have life
Round and round Earth goes, year after year, bound by gravity to our Sun. Yet imagine I were…
Manhattan-sized ice island breaks off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier
An international team of researchers, led in part by the University of Ottawa, has documented a major calving…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Recovers Starship From Indian Ocean A Month After Launch
SpaceX has pulled off its biggest salvage operation yet, recovering its most recently launched Starship from the Indian…
How do you tag the world’s biggest fish? Fins and flexibility.
What does it take to swim up to the world’s largest fish and stick a monitoring tag on…
The electrically charged gas drifting between the stars rings at a pitch between a few hundred and a few thousand hertz, comfortably inside the range of human hearing, which is why NASA engineers can feed a recording straight from Voyager 1 into an ordinary loudspeaker and listen to interstellar space
“In space, no one can hear you scream.” Alien’s tagline is one of the most quoted lines in…
A Relentless Storm Pattern Is Making Arctic Sea Ice Disappear Faster
Aerial view of newly formed sea ice in the Arctic. Credit: Alfred Wegener Institute / IceCam / Stefan…
All’alba lo spettacolo dell’eclissi di Luna – Spazio e Astronomia
Poco prima dell’alba oltre il 96% del disco lunare è stato coperto dall’ombra della Terra e si è…
Helicopter Rescues Climber Stung Over 100 Times by Wasps
A rock-climbing outing north of Vancouver turned into an aerial rescue Tuesday after a 33-year-old woman was…
Before he was old enough to drive, a 14-year-old talked a university physics department into lending him a sub-basement — the machine he assembled there fused atoms in a plasma hotter than the sun’s core and made him the youngest person ever to achieve nuclear fusion
The first physicist Taylor Wilson pitched turned him down flat. Friedwardt Winterberg, an eminent professor at the University…
Antarctica gained 766 billion tons of ice in just 22 months
After decades of losses, satellites recorded a massive Antarctic ice gain between 2021 and 2023, but researchers say…
The James Webb Space Telescope studied 72 young star systems and revealed why Jupiter-like planets face a race against time: they must acquire their massive atmospheres within the gas-rich disc’s first several million years, before jets and disc winds disperse the material needed to build them.
Jupiter is mostly an atmosphere wrapped around a comparatively small heavy-element interior. That familiar description conceals a severe…