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Europa Clipper launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 14, 2024 at 12:06 pm EDT, beginning a six-year journey to Jupiter's icy moon…
A recent discovery by a National Geographic documentary team suggests they may have uncovered part of the footprints of Andrew “Sandy” Irvine, the renowned climber who…
Tibetan PlateauNicolas Marino/Mauritius Images GmbH/Alamy Climate change is causing winter temperatures to rise faster than summer temperatures, especially in high-altitude regions. This “asymmetric” warming could change…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope detected Jupiter’s most distinctive feature, the Great Red Spot, on eight dates over a single 90-day oscillation period from…
Joy (Bel Powley) and William (Nick Robinson) after “discovering” sexMichael Tybulski/San Sebastian Film Festival turn me onmichael tybulski Truant Pictures (on digital platforms from November 4th)…
There are many ways computers store numbersAndrew Ostrovsky/Panther Media GmbH/Alamy Changing the way numbers are stored on computers could improve the accuracy of calculations without increasing…
Archaeological research has helped us understand the complex story of our species’ past, from early humans to the dawn of civilization and beyond. But some are…
Saturn photographed with an amateur telescopeGray Zone / Alamy Stock Photo When I was a teenager, I joined my school's urban astronomy club. It wasn’t popular.…
Westfield Shopping Center is not an ideal place for studying, but for Deborah Botende, it was one of her few options. Botende grew up in a…
Illustration of NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraftNASA/JPL-California Institute of Technology The largest spacecraft ever developed by NASA for an interplanetary mission will launch today to determine whether…
Using the ESPRESSO instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the HARPS instrument on ESO’s La Silla 3.6-meter telescope, astronomers discovered the hot Saturn-sized gas giant…
Reading time: 7 minutes As space agencies around the world set their sights on deep space missions, it is becoming increasingly important for scientists to understand…
WBack in 2011, Marc Andreessen was a venture capitalist with dreams of becoming a public intellectual. published an essay Titled “Why Software is Eating the World,'',…
Anemone: Soft gelatinous invertebrates, known as sea anemones, have a tubular body and poisonous tentacles surrounding the mouth. These carnivores live attached to rocks on the…
Despite lacking charisma or passion, she excels in maintaining a perfect rhythm and does not exhibit emotional outbursts towards the musicians under her three batons. Enter…
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a surprising new perspective of the intermediate spiral galaxy Messier 90. This Hubble image shows Messier 90,…
Don’t worry if the salted bodies, partial skeletons, and taxidermied carcasses that fill the museum seem a little, well, quiet. In the latest coup in artificial…
For decades, Jupiter’s icy moons have been considered one of the most promising places in the solar system to search for extraterrestrial life. Europa, thought to…
SpaceX conducted the fifth test flight of its Starship rocket on Sunday, achieving a significant milestone by making the first catch of the rocket’s over 20-story-tall…
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IE11 is not supported. For the best experience, please visit our site in a different browser. Currently playing SpaceX’s Starship rocket booster successfully returns to launch…
The frozen River Thames is being hit by cold winds, the Mersey docks are blocked by ice floes, and crops are failing in the UK. Meanwhile,…
The aftermath of Hurricane Milton continues to impact the state, with top priorities being power restoration, debris clearing, and fuel distribution. Over 1.5 million people are…
Q Wayne refused to use them. Musicians’ unions tried to ban them. Then computers overtook them. Synthesizers have been ridiculed, despised, and discarded throughout history, but…
TThe 71-year-old man’s trial shocked France and the world. That’s because he admitted to repeatedly drugging his wife and recruiting dozens of men online to rape…
According to the head of Australia’s top intelligence agency, individuals similar to the Christchurch terrorists are becoming radicalized through social media platforms, with the potential for…
Investors React Poorly to CyberCab Self-Driving Car, Tesla’s Value Drops $60 Billion | Auto Industry
Tesla shares dropped almost 9% on Friday, erasing roughly $60 billion from the company’s market value following the underwhelming announcement of its highly anticipated robotaxis that…
Have you ever wondered why moon dust is so sticky? It’s all because of static cling, the same phenomenon that causes thin clothes to stick to…
A rip current is essentially a strong current that flows through channels between sandbars and pulls the shore apart. It can reach speeds of up to…
The brightest comet of the year, Comet A3, will be visible for the last time in a century this weekend. This weekend marks its brightest appearance,…
When a new opening credits sequence was needed for Doctor Who, NASA provided a surprising new look at Comet A3, currently flying close to Earth at…
Archaeologists excavating Tam Parin (Monkey Cave) in northeastern Laos have discovered some of the earliest fossil evidence homo sapiens Presence in mainland Southeast Asia. Excavation survey…
The newly discovered isotope plutonium-227 has a half-life of 0.78 seconds, according to a team of Chinese physicists. Areas 87≤Z≤97 and 112≤N≤136 in the nuclear map…
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital was damaged by Hurricane Milton earlier this week. Dark Shad/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMA Wire/Alamy Children’s hospitals that lost access to water in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton are now using devices that can collect potable water directly from the air, and such atmospheric water collection systems are being used to respond
Paleontologists say they have identified a new species of marine reptile in the ophthalmosaurid family Platypterygius. It lived about 125 million years ago. a pair of…
overviewHurricane Milton’s tornado outbreak in Florida was the leading cause of death and damage from the storm. On Wednesday, South Florida experienced one of the strongest…
Andrea Vidaure, winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize, shared that her efforts to enhance air quality in California are deeply rooted in her own personal experience.Raised…
genus citrus refers to a group of flowering shrubs or treesLiv Frith Larsen / Alamy This is an excerpt from Our Human Story, a newsletter about…
Are you a cat person or a dog person? Lea Michelle Baines and Jessica Leigh Oliva from Australia’s James Cook University said they found that people…
Ducks receiving influenza vaccination on a farm in France in November 2023Shutterstock/Leitenberger photo Modeling studies show that hundreds of cases of H5N1 avian influenza would have…