Time to take forestry out of the emissions trading scheme – environment watchdog
Forestry should be phased out of New Zealand’s “rudderless” emissions trading scheme because it is allowing climate pollution…
Webb has produced the highest-resolution wide-area dark-matter map yet—more than twice as sharp as Hubble’s earlier view—using distortions in roughly 250,000 galaxies to expose previously unresolved clumps and filaments within a field containing nearly 800,000 galaxies.
The blue web spread across Webb’s new COSMOS image is not a photograph of dark matter. No telescope…
New Simulations Show How Galactic Centers Grow Together
Understanding the formation and evolution of galactic centers is a major challenge facing astrophysicists. For some time, astronomers…
Every wild land mammal on Earth — elephants, deer, wolves, mice and the rest — adds up to only about 20 million tonnes, a 2023 study estimated, roughly three kilograms per person, compared with about 390 million tonnes of humans
Add up every wild land mammal alive today, every elephant, wolf, red deer, field mouse and cave bat,…
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope detected water molecules and freshly produced silicate dust around a dying star seen just 0.55 light-years in projection from the Milky Way’s central black hole—showing that surprisingly fragile material can form and survive within the Galaxy’s radiation-drenched central environment.
The James Webb Space Telescope did not photograph water droplets or watch rocky grains condense beside the Milky…
From nightlife to life at night: cities must stay open later to beat the rising heat
Summer in Europe is normally cause for celebration. Not this one, however, which will rank as one of…
Redditors Are Skeptical of SpaceX’s Orbital Data Centers. Are They Right?
Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) wants to put AI compute in orbit, and plenty of Redditors on investment…
Reject Fluid Simulations, Return To Rheoscopic Fluid
Fluid simulations are one of the “killer apps” of high-performance computing, but if you can’t afford the performance,…
Indigenous rangers appeal for more bird flu funding to protect biodiversity, human health
Indigenous ranger groups working in Australia’s remotest wild areas are appealing to the federal government to increase their…
Griffith Observatory Hosts Stargazing Party For Blood Moon Eclipse
Who says the stars are brightest in Hollywood? On Thursday, August 27, a lunar eclipse will begin around 7:18pm and,…
PNG’s tinder-dry Central Province and NCD struggle under El Niño
Papua New Guinea’s Central Province is feeling the brunt of prolonged drought caused by the El Niño weather…
‘You just saved the video dish’: Two astronauts complete spacewalk to replace ISS antenna
“Houston, we have a working comm link again.” Thanks to the efforts of two astronauts, such a call…