Jimothy the raccoon survived against the odds, a testament to sophisticated brains and devoted mothers
As a neuroscientist who studies raccoon and rats, I see the viral story of Jimothy the raccoon as…
Quantum Heat Waves Detected at Room Temperature
Key takeaways Researchers have demonstrated that phonons, atomic heat-carrying vibrations with quantum properties, can travel in focused, ray-like…
Crews Move Artemis IV Liquid Hydrogen Tank
Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall Artemis IV liquid hydrogen tank out of…
Are NYC swimmers facing more shark attacks than normal this summer? Experts reveal what’s going on
Is it a sign of the a-jaw-calypse? Just when you thought it was safe to go back in…
Sperm whales blow bubbles to achieve restful, vertical sleep
image: Sperm Whale at rest view more Credit: University of St Andrews New research from the University of St…
Later this decade NASA plans to launch Dragonfly, a car-sized nuclear-powered drone that will fly from site to site across Saturn’s moon Titan
Picture a car-sized machine sitting on an orange, frozen plain. It powers up eight rotors, rises into a…
Australia’s largest onshore wind farm just revealed one site killed 20 wedge-tailed eagles in 18 months, its deadliest anywhere for the 9-foot-wingspan raptor, and the fix that works needs a permit first
KeysQuestions4Explore4 Rye Park wind farm — Australia’s largest onshore — has quietly become the deadliest wind site on…
To make a single pound of honey, the bees in a hive may visit around two million flowers and can fly more than 50,000 miles between them — equivalent to more than twice around the planet
Let’s start with the flowers. To produce a pound of honey, a colony’s worker bees have to visit…
Vulcan Centaur swapped out again: NASA goes with SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for launch of space weather mission
NASA is shaking things up for its next mission to research the sun. The six satellites of NASA’s…
Tiny tree snails make historic comeback 40 years after vanishing from the wild
A captive-bred Partula tohiveana tree snail (right) and a newly born juvenile (left) move across a green leaf.…
Northern Lights: Geomagnetic Storms May Bring Aurora To These 9 States
Topline Several along the northern U.S. border may have a chance to see the northern lights Thursday, as…
Skylab cost roughly $2.2 billion, hosted nine astronauts across three missions and remained in orbit for just over six years — before breaking apart over Western Australia, where its remains became museum exhibits, Lucite-encased souvenirs and, according to local accounts, even a cattle trough.
Skylab began as one of the most ambitious machines the United States had ever placed in orbit and…