Magnitude 6.4 earthquake rattles Papua New Guinea
A magnitude 6.4 earthquake has once again rattled the Pacific Ring of Fire — this time in Papua…
The Sun Is Physically Capable of Producing a “Superflare” According To A New Study
We have long known that the Sun is active. It “flares” quite often, sending huge amounts of energy…
Investigation into 10 lion deaths in Tanzania focused on poisoning : NPR
Lions walk in the Ngorongoro Crater in Ngorongoro Conservation Area, west of Arusha, northern Tanzania, Monday, Jan. 19,…
‘Supermountains’ Buried Under Antarctica Fueled Explosion of Life, Scientists Discover
Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that ate well, moved mountains, grew brains,…
Satellites show Earth lost more than 12 trillion tons of ice from Greenland, Antarctica in 47 years
IRVINE, Calif. — About 12.5 trillion tons of ice from glaciers in Greenland and Antarctica have melted since…
In 2011, NASA sent a solar sail the size of a small apartment into orbit; the thin reflective sheet flew without fuel |
A photo of the experimental solar sail, NanoSail-D. Credits – Wikimedia Commons Spacecraft have historically relied on transporting…
Lynx caught on camera in northern Minnesota
ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Minn. (FOX 9) – A wild lynx was spotted in a residential yard just outside…
Physicists find Einstein’s ‘spooky’ quantum effect inside Higgs boson decays
ATLAS physicists found strong evidence that pairs of massive Z bosons produced in Higgs decays emerge with entangled…
Canada’s Dempster Highway Is A 460-Mile Dirt Road Stretching Across One Of The Harshest Places On Earth
Having now done the Dempster up and back, I can pretty confidently tell you that almost anything can make…
People think Earth dies when the Sun becomes a red giant in five billion years — the more likely end is a billion years from now, when a star already 30 percent brighter than at birth pushes CO₂ too low for C3 plants, then a moist greenhouse strips the oceans of hydrogen and leaves a sterile Venus
The Sun is roughly 4.6 billion years old and about halfway through its main-sequence lifetime. The popular conception…
Hawk reportedly shot off power line in Cape Coral under investigation, FWC says
Hawk reportedly shot off power line in Cape Coral under investigation, FWC says CAPE CORAL, Fla. — Authorities…
Flavor-changing ‘ghost particles’ may reveal which stars go supernova — and which turn into black holes
The way in which the ghostly particles known as neutrinos can switch from one kind to another might…