Extreme Climate Survey Science News is collecting reader questions about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can… Read More »Bumblebees lose most of their sense of smell after heat waves
Roughly one in six people are affected by infertility worldwide. And with more than half the world’s population now living in urban areas, researchers are interested in whether living in… Read More »Pollution harms men’s fertility, but traffic noise affects women’s
How you deliver climate messaging matters, in terms of changing minds, researchers are finding.Credit: Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Telling people that scientists almost unanimously agree that human-caused climate change is… Read More »How to change people’s minds about climate change: what the science says
Adorama has slashed $401.99 off this Sony A7 IV bundle — now its lowest-ever price of $2,098. If you’ve been considering investing in a versatile full-frame camera that captures beautiful… Read More »Lowest ever price — save over $400 on one of our favorite cameras at Adorama
Starliner, without its astronauts, will make a twilight landing on Earth under parachutes on Sept. 7 after fully undocking from the International Space Station during the evening of Sept. 6.… Read More »‘We’re confident in it’: Boeing Starliner’s parachute team readies for Crew Flight Test landing without astronauts on Sept. 7
NASA is exploring potential partnerships for alternate use cases for the On-orbit Servicing, Assembly, and Manufacturing 1 (OSAM-1) flight hardware, test facilities, and experienced personnel. Through a Request for Information… Read More »OSAM-1 Partnership Opportunity
Biocrust in Utah Nihonjoe via Wikipedia under CC By-SA 3.0 Under the dry, piercing heat of the Utah sun, Sasha Reed is growing plots of plants—and bacteria, lichen and fungi,… Read More »Inside the Effort to Save Earth’s Biocrusts
Toxic surprises from the plastics industry — Science News, September 7, 1974 In the United States alone, more than 29 billion pounds of plastic are produced each year. An estimated… Read More »50 years ago, some of plastic’s toxic hazards were exposed
The oldest evidence of Earth’s ancient atmosphere may be lurking in rocks from the moon, a new study suggests. That’s the takeaway from a new analysis of moon rocks that… Read More »The oldest evidence of Earth’s atmosphere may be hiding in rocks on the moon
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Credit: Josh Dury To capture the spectacle of the Perseid meteor… Read More »Scientists almost have nuclear clocks ticking
Video circulating online shows a small asteroid named 2024 RW1, measuring approximately 1 meter in size, disintegrated harmlessly in Earth‘s atmosphere on Wednesday, as per Nasa reports. The asteroid, discovered… Read More »Watch: Small, harmless asteroid strikes Earth’s atmosphere; green fireball lights up sky
A dolphin attacking swimmers in Japan is probably lonely and sexually frustrated, experts say. At least 18 people have been injured in dolphin attacks in Fukui prefecture this year in… Read More »Sexually frustrated dolphin behind spate of attacks on humans off Japan
An experimental NASA solar sail can be seen in the night sky as it orbits the Earth. NASA’s Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) launched in April 2024 atop a… Read More »NASA’s solar sail spacecraft is visible in the night sky. Here’s how to see it
If IC 4709’s core just held stars, it wouldn’t be nearly as bright. Instead, it hosts a gargantuan black hole, 65 million times more massive than our Sun. A disk… Read More »Hubble Examines a Busy Galactic Center
United Nations Environment Programme. UNEA Resolution 5/14 entitled “End plastic pollution: towards an international legally binding instrument”. United Nations Environment Assembly of the United Nations Environment Programme. https://wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.11822/39812/OEWG_PP_1_INF_1_UNEA%20resolution.pdf (2022). United… Read More »A local-to-global emissions inventory of macroplastic pollution
In May, the most powerful geomagnetic storm in more than two decades slammed Earth, leading to intense northern lights displays as far south as Florida and Mexico. With solar activity… Read More »A particularly active ‘aurora season’ could be just weeks away
NASA Live: Official Stream of NASA TV – YouTube Watch On Boeing’s Starliner capsule will depart the International Space Station without astronauts today (Sept. 6), and you can watch the… Read More »Watch Boeing’s Starliner head home to Earth without astronauts today
These are far-ultraviolet Hubble images of Mars near its farthest point from the Sun, called aphelion, on December 31, 2017 (top), and near its closest approach to the Sun, called… Read More »NASA’s Hubble, MAVEN Help Solve the Mystery of Mars’ Escaping Water
Amylase gene naming conventions The reference genome GRC38 represents an H3 haplotype with three copies of the AMY1 gene and one copy each of the AMY2A and AMY2B genes. The… Read More »Recurrent evolution and selection shape structural diversity at the amylase locus
Ninety-three days after launching aboard, Boeing’s Starliner capsule is prepared to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday evening leaving Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, the two astronauts… Read More »After 93 days, Nasa’s troubled Starliner setting stage for unpiloted return to Earth
SpaceX continues to keep busy. One of the company’s Falcon 9 rockets lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base tonight (Sept. 5) at 11:20 p.m. EDT (8:20 p.m. local… Read More »SpaceX launches next-gen spy satellites for US government
NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have signed an interagency agreement to collaborate on a satellite servicing demonstration in geosynchronous Earth orbit, where hundreds of satellites provide… Read More »DARPA Robotic Satellite Servicing
Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. Differences are starting to emerge among the weight-loss and diabetes drugs… Read More »No one knows how smell really works — scientists are sniffing out the answers
A new research has revealed that a common food dye, tartrazine (FD&C Yellow No. 5), can temporarily render the skin of living mice transparent, allowing for unprecedented visualization of internal… Read More »Scientists make mouse skin transparent using common food dye, echoing HG Wells’ ‘Invisible Man’
Archaeologists in Bulgaria have unearthed five gold coins dating to the time of the emperor Justinian the Great (ruled from A.D. 527 to 565). Although it is not unusual to… Read More »1,500-year-old gold coins from Byzantine Empire discovered in medieval dwelling in Bulgaria
On April 23, NASA launched a solar sail protype to orbit around our planet — a piece of technology that could very well revolutionize the way we think about spacecraft… Read More »NASA spacecraft captures 1st photo of its giant solar sail while tumbling in space
From across the Atlantic Ocean and through the Gulf of Mexico, two ships converged, delivering key spacecraft and rocket components of NASA’s Artemis campaign to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center… Read More »New Hardware for Future Artemis Moon Missions Arrive at NASA Kennedy
New measurements taken with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have deepened the scientific controversy of the Hubble tension — suggesting it may not exist at all. For years, astronomers… Read More »One of the universe’s biggest paradoxes could be even weirder than we thought, James Webb telescope study reveals
Although ChatGPT and other generative AI chatbots are transformative tools, risks to privacy and content ownership are baked in.Credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto/Getty Timothée Poisot, a computational ecologist at the University of… Read More »the hidden risks of AI
If you have a dog, you may have noticed that its paws smell disturbingly similar to a popular snack food: Fritos. In fact, even the corn chip brand acknowledged the… Read More »Why do dogs’ paws smell like Fritos?
Alien: Earth | Official Teaser | Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Timothy Olyphant | FX – YouTube Watch On “Alien: Romulus” still has us all shuddering in our shoes, with its… Read More »Watch eerie 1st teaser for Hulu’s ‘Alien: Earth’ TV series (video)
Curiosity Navigation Curiosity Home Mission Overview Where is Curiosity? Mission Updates Science Overview Instruments Highlights Exploration Goals News and Features Multimedia Curiosity Raw Images Images Videos Audio More Resources Mars… Read More »Sols 4295-4296: A Martian Moon and Planet Earth
Robots smaller than most bacteria could deliver drugs right to the site of a brain aneurysm, preventing a devastating stroke, a new animal study suggests. The new technology has been… Read More »Scientists invent nanorobots that can repair brain aneurysms
A chemical process converts common types of plastic waste into the building blocks needed to make new plastics1. Access options Access Nature and 54 other Nature Portfolio journals Get Nature+,… Read More »Cheap catalysts close the loop on plastics production
Archaeologists in Germany have discovered the 1,700-year-old burial of a “barbarian” who lived on the edge of the Roman Empire and was given valuable grave goods, including glassware, pottery and… Read More »1,700-year-old ‘barbarian’ burial discovered along Roman Empire’s frontier in Germany
The Full Harvest Moon of September 2024 will be a special one. All full moons are impressive sights on their own, but this month’s Full Harvest Moon will be especially… Read More »A partial lunar eclipse of the Harvest Moon Supermoon is coming. Here’s everything you need to know
Researchers with a large network of unique collaborators have longer careers, finds study – Physics World Skip to main content Close search menu Discover more from Physics World Copyright ©… Read More »Researchers with a large network of unique collaborators have longer careers, finds study – Physics World
NASA has awarded the Center, Operations Maintenance, and Engineering II contract to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tennessee, to support operations at the agency’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.… Read More »NASA Selects Langley Research Center Support Contractor
Extreme Climate Survey Science News is collecting reader questions about how to navigate our planet’s changing climate. What do you want to know about extreme heat and how it can… Read More »A next-gen pain drug shows promise, but chronic sufferers need more options
Archaeologists have discovered a trove of ancient silver coins “hidden in a hole in the wall” on a Mediterranean island near Sicily, possibly during a pirate attack more than 2,000… Read More »Roman coin trove discovered on Mediterranean island may have been hidden during ancient pirate attack