The U.S. Is Having One of Its Most Active Wildfire Seasons. Here’s How the Costs Are Adding Up
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Solar system’s smallest planet shrinking faster than we thought
There’s less Mercury in the system. Scientists found that Mercury, the solar system’s smallest planet, is shrinking far…
Mountain-dwelling marmots mysteriously appear in bustling Bay Area
A pair of marmots have mysteriously appeared in busy Bay Area cities, baffling experts as to how the…
Scientists got diamond’s melting point wrong by more than 1,000 degrees, crushing new laser experiment reveals
Scientists melted diamonds with a powerful laser to take some of the most precise measurements of the mineral’s…
Inside the mission to save orangutans from raging fires
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A New Catalog of Close to 3,000 Supernova Challenges Theories on Dark Energy
After decades of observations, an international effort led by researchers at the University of Queensland’s School of Mathematics…
Scorpion found in wrestling mats delivered to Maine club
Scorpion found in wrestling mats delivered to Oxford County wrestling club Scorpion native to Texas found inside shipment…
Physicists Just Turned The Entire Planet Into a Dark Matter Detector – And Strange Signals Kept Turning Up : ScienceAlert
Physicists have conducted a worldwide hunt for dark matter. Literally – they turned Earth itself into a giant…
Riverland residents reflect on 1956, the year of South Australia’s largest flood event
John Peterson was in his first year of university when floodwaters hit his South Australian hometown of Kingston…
Andromeda is visible from 2.5 million light-years because the light of hundreds of billions of stars blends together. But an Earth-like planet there would be roughly ten billion times fainter than its own star and separated from it by only about 1.3 microarcseconds—far beyond the direct-imaging ability of any existing telescope.
Andromeda can be found without a telescope under a sufficiently dark sky, even though its light has travelled…
Trump’s removal of wolf protections would change little in the Pacific Northwest
Gray wolves roaming parts of Oregon and Washington could lose federal protections as part of President Donald Trump’s…
A 67-year-old told her eleven children she was “going for a hike”, then hiked the Appalachian Trail alone in canvas sneakers, sleeping under a shower curtain with a 17-pound sack over one shoulder. She reached Katahdin on September 25, 1955, 146 days out and seven pairs of shoes down.
Most people who set out to walk more than two thousand miles of mountain footpath carry a tent,…