Astronomers Catch a “Dark Comet” Red-Handed
Our ability to track and visualize small rocks in space is still improving. And occasionally we’ll find a…
The world’s most expensive dinosaur may now be lost to science
A 67-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton known as Gus has sold for $50.1 million at Sotheby’s in New York,…
Global assessment shows blue carbon wealth dominated by ocean processes and unevenly distributed across countries
Data sources and spatial harmonization We compiled updated datasets on blue carbon ecosystem extent, annual carbon sequestration, biological…
The ISS toilet costs $23 million and separates urine into a centrifuge that recycles 98% of it back into drinking water — a closed-loop system that took NASA 40 years to perfect
Somewhere above your head, roughly 400 kilometres up, an astronaut is drinking yesterday’s urine. Not metaphorically. The water…
Guest Post: What a High School Student Found When He Stress-Tested a Quantum Benchmark
Guest Post By Jithesh Mithra, Independent Researcher, Jacksonville, Florida Here is a result that should not happen. Take…
“I didn’t know what I was looking at”: drone films one of the strangest and rarest animals on the planet
A videographer in Western Australia was amazed to see a critically endangered wedgefish leading a group of fish…
A black hole does not merely bend space; it bends time, pulling it so severely that at the event horizon, time as experienced from the outside appears to stop entirely, meaning something falling in would seem, to a distant observer, to freeze at the edge
A black hole warps the passage of time, not only the shape of space. Close to one, clocks…
‘It’s truly hell here’: airstrikes, repression and water shortages become ‘new normal’ for Iranians | Iran
As US airstrikes hit port and inland cities in Iran, and Tehran strikes at the US’s Middle East…
NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica
Data from the Earth-orbiting U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite’s L-band radar was used to produce an…
Costumed ‘Ugly Mom’ helps orphaned sandhill cranes
Minnesota wildlife rehabilitator and ornithologist Foxfeather Zenkova trades sequins for imitation bird feathers when getting dressed up for…
Tribes and Environmental Groups Sue to Block Trump’s Gutting of the Endangered Species Act – Mother Jones
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Rivers of magma once bubbled beneath crust of Mars, research suggests | Mars
Mars once had rivers of magma bubbling beneath its crust, new research suggests. The surprise find makes it…