Extreme heat on Independence Day will be America’s new normal, experts say : NPR
People cope with extreme heat along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on Friday. Amid Farahi/AFP via Getty…
Wally Funk, aviation pioneer and oldest woman to go into space, dies at 87 | US news
Wally Funk, a trailblazing aviation pioneer who was denied the opportunity to become a Nasa astronaut and half…
Dead seabirds on Northland beach test negative for H5N1 bird flu
The discovery follows recent reports of dead and distressed seabirds, including prions and various petrel species, washing ashore…
To Ancient Astronomers, Theta Eridani Was Brighter For A Thousand Years. Now We Know Why
There’s a bit of a historical mystery surrounding the star Theta Eridani. Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD…
Global Warming Could Ravage the Amazon’s Useful Plant Species, Study Finds
Over centuries, the Amazon’s hundreds of Indigenous societies have built up an abundance of knowledge about the rainforest’s…
NASA Sets Coverage for Astronaut Anil Menon Launch to Space Station
NASA astronaut Anil Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station on…
Black swans flock to Auckland’s eastern suburbs beaches – and locals are divided about the influx
It’s here that she spends several hours a day feeding the swans, checking on the cygnets and politely…
Researchers confirm cause of Earth’s biggest mass extinction
image: Representative samples of the modern fauna (left three samples) and the Paleozoic fauna (right four samples). (Image credit:…
Death Divers Jump Off 65-Foot-Tall Iceberg in Greenland
Dumb ways to die. Photo: 00Nation // YouTube Death diving is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.…
Guy Who Took Photo Of Jupiter With A Game Boy Camera And Giant Telescope Publishes DIY Tutorial
The latest adventure for the kooky camera looks skyward.
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A British tokamak just came apart after more than 5,000 plasma pulses, a squashed doughnut that hit 100 million degrees, six times hotter than the core of the Sun, held together by magnets pushing seven million ampere turns through a column at 11.8 tesla
KeysQuestions4Explore4 The UK’s fusion ambitions just got a brutally honest reality check — Britain needs 30,000 kilometers of…
Dirty ‘button’ unearthed by metal detectorist turns out to be a rare 900-year-old coin from Norway’s last Viking king, Magnus Barefoot
A metal detectorist in Norway dismissed a rare 900-year-old silver coin as a button, before researchers realized it…