Simple water trick slashes diesel engine pollution by over 60%
Diesel engines power everything from freight trucks and farm equipment to generators and industrial machinery. They are valued…
NASA is looking for volunteers to live in a space simulator for a year
For the closest thing to spending a year on Mars, without leaving Earth, look no further than Houston. NASA…
A Maine couple thought they were about to photograph a moose. Instead, a calf and a bear burst from the woods, and they had seconds to decide whether to intervene
Bear chases moose calf in Telos Township, Maine (Picture credit: Elvia J Malcolm) What began as a quiet…
Two enormous structures — the Giant Arc and the Big Ring — appear in the same region of deep space at the same cosmic distance, a pairing so unexpected that Alexia Lopez, one of the astronomers who discovered them, says current cosmology struggles to explain even one of them, let alone both together.
Two of the largest reported structures in the distant universe do not just look strange on their own.…
Trump officials to slash public input on fossil fuel drilling on federal lands | Fossil fuels
The Trump administration is attempting to shrink public comment periods for fossil fuel leasing on federal land while…
NASA’s Hubble spots a stellar sparkler for the Fourth of July
A brilliant field of red, white, and blue stars sparkles across a new image from NASA’s Hubble Space…
Volunteer Pilot in Alaska Saves Injured Baby Seals Stuck 300 Miles Away in an Area Unreachable by Car
NEED TO KNOW Two injured seal pups were rescued near Cordova, Alaska, by a volunteer pilot Duke Marolf…
For much of the past century, scientists believed dinosaurs were already in decline when the asteroid struck 66 million years ago — but a 2025 study published in Science found fossils in New Mexico showing they were flourishing in diverse, thriving ecosystems right up until the moment of impact
For much of the past century, many scientists believed the dinosaurs were already in decline when the asteroid…
How climate change influences extreme weather
I am finalizing a textbook on climate risk and am posting chapters as I finish them. I’d previously…
NASA’s Hubble captures a star-spangled sea of 500,000 stars
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has released a dazzling new image featuring more than 500,000 stars glowing in shades…
Scientists may have finally solved the black hole information paradox
For decades, physicists have wrestled with one of the deepest puzzles in modern science: the “black hole information…
Have You Seen This? Toad goes for a spin
THE WHIRLPOOL — There are some days when it seems that nothing seems to go according to plan.…