‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approaching | El Niño southern oscillation
The El Niño climate phenomenon is “supersizing before our eyes”, the UN has said. The event is near…
China’s private, reusable Pallas-1 rocket aces debut launch (video)
Another reusable Chinese rocket has taken to the skies. Pallas-1, a launcher developed by the Beijing-based company Galactic…
Adorable Baby Bear Spotted Taking a Little Field Trip Into Boise
Living in the Treasure Valley is often a cool, calm, and collected experience. Rarely are there major crimes,…
Hollywood exaggerates Martian storms in a specific and measurable way: because Mars’s atmosphere is roughly 100 times thinner than Earth’s, a 60-mph gust would push an astronaut about as hard as a gentle 6-to-8-mph breeze on Earth.
The opening storm in The Martian does exactly what a film storm should. It bends an antenna, hurls…
California lawmakers move to remake state forests centered on logging
California lawmakers have voted to shift a state forest system away from commercial logging and pave the way…
Physicists Determine Cause of “Runaway” Supermassive Black Hole
In September 2022, astronomers observed something very odd in a galaxy around 7.5 billion light-years from Earth. Extending…
Did Scientists Just Catch a Glimpse of a Dark Matter Particle?
“While we’re excited, we also need to be cautious,” says Daniel Akerib, a particle physicist at Stanford University, and…
The World Needs to Prep for ‘Black Swan Events’
Volcanoes that blot out the sun, solar storms that knock out power grids, a nuclear exchange that…
San Diego County approves $1 billion to treat Tijuana River sewage
After decades of pollution and years of beach closures caused by raw sewage in the Tijuana River, San…
In 1998, NASA sent oyster toadfish into space on Space Shuttle Columbia; over 16 days in orbit, researchers studied how their balance systems adapted to microgravity
A group of saltwater toadfish went aboard Columbia in April 1998. No one watching the launch would have…
Injured snapping turtle released back into the wild in Adams County
Injured snapping turtle released back into the wild in Adams County ADAMS COUNTY, Pa. — A snapping turtle…
A Solar Superstorm Caused a GPS Glitch Bad Enough to Crash Self-Driving Cars
On November 11, 2025, the Sun unleashed a series of solar flares that struck Earth, triggering a severe…