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"Shocking Spiral Secret": Webb Telescope Shows 60% Galaxies Turning Clockwise, Stirring Alarming Theory of Universe Inside Black Hole - Rude Baguette

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Researchers observed a consistent pattern in the rotational direction of galaxies using the James Webb Space Telescope. Approximately 6… [+5793 chars] Comments (0) ‘Ten Martini’ Proof Uses Number Theory to Explain Quantum Fractals - Quanta Magazine Posted at 2025-08-27 05:42:37 But in some ways, the proof was a bit unsatisfying. Jitomirskaya and Avila had used a method that only applied to certain irrational values of alpha. By combining it with an intermediate proof that c… [+2389 chars] Comments (0) Buried Secrets Reveal How Humans Changed the Great Salt Lake Forever - SciTechDaily Posted at 2025-08-27 05:42:11 The view of Great Salt Lake’s North Arm from Gunnison Island, which has long served as a nesting ground for pelicans. Credit: Brian Maffly, University of Utah For thousands of years, Utah’s Great Sa… [+6557 chars] Comments (0) New Fossil Discoveries Reveal the Mysterious Creatures That Roamed Earth Before the Cataclysmic Extinction - Indian Defence Review Posted at 2025-08-27 05:41:37 The Permian period, spanning from 299 to 252 million years ago, marked a crucial era in Earths history. The end of this period witnessed the most devastating mass extinction, known as the Great Dying… [+6327 chars] Comments (0) Huge Parts of the North Sea Seabed Are Upside Down, New Study Reveals - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-27 05:41:10 In the world of stratigraphy, or rock layers, superficial sediments are usually younger than the deeper ones they settle upon. The North Sea, however, has revealed giant mounds of sand that defy this… [+3055 chars] Comments (0) Inouye Solar Telescope delivers record-breaking images of solar flare and coronal loops - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-27 05:40:41 The highest-resolution images of a solar flare captured at the H-alpha wavelength (656.28 nm) ever captured may reshape how we understand the sun's magnetic architectureand improve space weather fore… [+5771 chars] Comments (0) 'Alien auroras' on Jupiter reveal a new kind of plasma wave, scientists say - Space Posted at 2025-08-27 05:39:57 The shimmering northern lights that streak across Alaska's skies have wilder cousins on Jupiter — they're bigger, stranger, and now tied to a discovery helping scientists better understand space weat… [+4229 chars] Comments (0) Flamingoes Can Slow Down Aging—But Only If They Embrace This Lifestyle - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-27 05:39:25 Despite the uniform appearance of pink flamingo flocks, individuals live very different lifestyles. In the Camargue region of France, some stay put for their entire lives while others migrate along t… [+4035 chars] Comments (0) Sonic boom expected ahead of next SpaceX launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base - KSBY News Posted at 2025-08-27 05:38:58 A sonic boom advisory has been issued ahead of SpaceX's planned launch Tuesday from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The launch of the OHB Italias NAOS spacecraft has a 27-minute launch window opening … [+872 chars] Comments (0) 'Potentially hazardous' asteroid Bennu contains dust older than the solar system itself — and traces of interstellar space - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-27 05:38:32 The near-Earth asteroid Bennu contains stardust that is older than our solar system, as well as organic materials and ices from interstellar space, three fresh studies of the asteroid's sample materi… [+4975 chars] Comments (0) Three NASA research rockets could paint the sky with colorful vapor trails tonight - NBC News Posted at 2025-08-27 05:38:02 The mesopause is the coldest layer of the planets atmosphere, with temperatures that can dip to nearly minus 148 degrees Fahrenheit, according to NASA. Scientists have been eager to learn more about… [+1258 chars] Comments (0) Giant planet discovered just 124 light-years from Earth - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-27 05:37:36 A nearby star has a new heavyweight companion, and it swings around on a path that is anything but neat. The world, labeled GJ 2126 b, traces a stretched orbit that pushes close to its star, then rac… [+5308 chars] Comments (0) Longest canyon in the solar system reveals new secrets — Space photo of the week - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-26 06:15:41 Mars' Valles Marineris stretches nearly a quarter of the way around the planet's equator. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona) What it is: Candor Chasma, a large canyon on Mars Wh… [+3008 chars] Comments (0) Black holes that transform matter into dark energy could solve 'cosmic hiccups' mystery - Space Posted at 2025-08-26 06:10:17 In a new study, scientists began pondering a pretty wild question: What if black holes can convert dead star matter into dark energy, the mystery force driving the acceleration of the expansion of th… [+7465 chars] Comments (0) Top AI models fail spectacularly when faced with slightly altered medical questions - PsyPost Posted at 2025-08-26 05:57:12 Artificial intelligence systems often perform impressively on standardized medical examsbut new research suggests these test scores may be misleading. A study published in JAMA Network Open indicates… [+7832 chars] Comments (0) 3I/ATLAS is Large and Releases Carbon Dioxide (CO2) - Avi Loeb – Medium Posted at 2025-08-26 05:53:04 Three images of 3I/ATLAS, taken by the SPHEREx Space Observatory. The images were observed at wavelengths of 3.0, 4.26, and 4.7 micrometers, corresponding to prominent emission lines of H2O, CO2 and … [+5319 chars] Comments (0) A Physicist Wants to Turn Jupiter’s Largest Moon Into a Gigantic Dark Matter Detector - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-26 05:52:35 When searching for the unknown, classic physics wisdom holds that a bigger detector boosts the chances of discovery. A physicist is taking that advice to heart, advancing a bold plan to use none othe… [+2433 chars] Comments (0) Giant Chunks of The Seafloor Are Mysteriously Upside Down, Scientists Find - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-26 05:52:10 Deep beneath the waves of the North Sea, the seafloor is behaving in an unexpected way. There, scientists have discovered hundreds of vast sand mounds, some on the scale of several kilometers across… [+3658 chars] Comments (0) High-fidelity entangling gates connect remote superconducting quantum processors - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-26 05:51:44 Quantum computers hold the potential of solving some optimization and data processing problems that cannot be tackled by classical computers. Many of the most promising quantum computing platforms de… [+5412 chars] Comments (0) "I Feel Sick Inside": Scientists Reveal Rare Mineral Discovery Suggests Colossal Ocean Hidden Beneath Earth Could Rewrite Human Survival - Rude Baguette Posted at 2025-08-26 05:51:18 IN A NUTSHELL Olivine plays a crucial role in transporting water deep into Earths mantle. Recent research reveals that infrared transparency of olivin… [+5485 chars] Comments (0) How Does Gravity Affect Time? - bgr.com Posted at 2025-08-26 05:50:55 Once the satellites and lab tests gave us a solid confirmation of the existence of gravitationaltime dilation, researchers decided to study the Earth instead. They wanted to know if this effect could… [+1141 chars] Comments (0) Scientists Sequenced the DNA of the ‘Last Neanderthal’—and It Alters Human History - menshealth.com Posted at 2025-08-26 05:50:25 Heres what youll learn when you read this story: In 2015, a paleoanthropology team discovered jaw remains of a roughly 42,000-year-old Neanderthal in France. Over the next several ye… [+3801 chars] Comments (0) Satellites Spotted a Strange Glow in the Ocean, and Scientists Have a Wild Explanation - Yahoo News Canada Posted at 2025-08-26 05:49:59 Since the early 2000s, scientists have been puzzled by a gleaming turquoise spot in the middle of the Antarctic Ocean showing up in satellite images. The patch is located just south of the great cal… [+2499 chars] Comments (0) Watch SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule arrive at the ISS on Aug. 25 with 5,000 pounds of supplies - Space Posted at 2025-08-26 05:49:34 A SpaceX cargo ship is scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday morning (Aug. 25), and you can watch the rendezvous live. A robotic Dragon capsule is expected to dock w… [+2389 chars] Comments (0) Introducing 'goldene': the world's newest supermaterial that is one atom thick - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-26 05:49:06 Gold behaves differently when it is reduced to a single layer of atoms. Electrons take new routes and light couples to the surface in surprising ways. A team reports they have isolated such a layer a… [+5656 chars] Comments (0) Revolutionary 'Breathing' Crystal Could Transform the Clean Energy Industry - Crude Oil Prices Today | OilPrice.com Posted at 2025-08-26 05:48:44 The U.S. East Coast dodged… Africa is poised to leapfrog… The large increase in refining… By Haley Zaremba - Aug 24, 2025, 2:00 PM CDTA new man-made crystal that can breathe oxygen may be a game c… [+4291 chars] Comments (0) 30 Years of Satellite Data Confirm Predictions from Early Models of Sea Level Rise - Slashdot Posted at 2025-08-26 05:48:21 "The ultimate test of climate projections is to compare them with what has played out..." says earth sciences professor Torbjörn Törnqvist, lead author on a new study published in the open-access jou… [+2252 chars] Comments (0) Shocking Footage Reveals the Most Deadly Hunting Technique Ever Seen in Orcas! - Indian Defence Review Posted at 2025-08-26 05:47:58 Orcas are known for their advanced hunting skills, but a recent discovery has shown an unexpected side to their predatory behavior. Filmed by the BBC in their documentary series Parenthood, the foota… [+2987 chars] Comments (0) DNA from extinct human cousins helped early humans colonize the Americas - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-26 05:47:32 Some of the first human settlers in the Americas carried more than primitive skills and tools, they also brought a small but powerful genetic variant called MUC19. That gene fragment, inherited fro… [+5384 chars] Comments (0) 100-year-old chemistry rule proven false, textbook updates needed - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-26 05:47:08 You know that feeling when everyone tells you something is impossible, so you never even try? That is what happened in chemistry for a hundred years. Students memorized a rule, one called Bredt’s rul… [+5510 chars] Comments (0) NASA launch of 3 rockets with colorful vapor trails may be seen from several eastern states - NJ.com Posted at 2025-08-26 05:46:43 NASAs launch of three rockets, including two with colorful vapor trails, could be visible across multiple mid-Atlantic states including New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. The launch window, whi… [+2588 chars] Comments (0) Shadow Realm at Black Hole's Edge Simulated For The First Time - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-26 05:46:19 The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) established a reputation worldwide in 2019 when it released the first-ever image of a black hole. This was made possible by the science of Very Long Baseline Interfe… [+4953 chars] Comments (0) You could fit every planet in the Solar System between Earth and the Moon - BBC Sky at Night Magazine Posted at 2025-08-25 05:27:29 Look up at the next full Moon and consider how far away it is. It looks pretty big and nearby, doesn't it? Now consider this: you could fit every planet in the Solar System between Earth and the Moo… [+2456 chars] Comments (0) Physics-inspired computer architecture solves complex optimization problems - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-25 05:27:07 A line of engineering research seeks to develop computers that can tackle a class of challenges called combinatorial optimization problems. These are common in real-world applications such as arrangi… [+3810 chars] Comments (0) Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold - ScienceDaily Posted at 2025-08-25 05:26:44 A new study led by the University of Oxford in collaboration with Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, University of Greenwich, and the Technical University of Denmark could provide a cost-effective and sustai… [+6758 chars] Comments (0) Earliest evidence discovered of interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-25 05:26:21 An international study led by researchers from Tel Aviv University and the French National Center for Scientific Research provides the first scientific evidence that Neanderthals and Homo sapiens had… [+4539 chars] Comments (0) Living on Mars would suck - vox.com Posted at 2025-08-25 05:25:58 The billionaire owners of Space X and Blue Origin have competing visions of a space-based future. Elon Musk wants a self-sustaining settlement on Mars as a backup for humanity in case the Earth gets … [+10194 chars] Comments (0) Fusion breakthrough uses inverted D plasma to solve key energy challenge - Interesting Engineering Posted at 2025-08-25 05:25:36 In 2023, the DIII-D facility conducted a dedicated experimental campaign to assess this operational method.  The findings show that negative triangularity plasmas can produce stable conditions that … [+727 chars] Comments (0) Saturday Citations: Beyond general relativity; gas giants and dark energy; the pleasures of difficult hobbies - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-25 05:25:14 This week, researchers pinned down the age of a complete Homo-genus skull found in Greece in 1960 to at least 286,000 years old. Medical researchers reported that the majority of chronic pain patient… [+5487 chars] Comments (0) A new perspective on how cosmological correlations change based on kinematic parameters - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-25 05:24:52 To study the origin and evolution of the universe, physicists rely on theories that describe the statistical relationships between different events or fields in spacetime, broadly referred to as cosm… [+6823 chars] Comments (0) New type of supernova 'looks like nothing anyone has ever seen before,' astronomer says - KSL.com Posted at 2025-08-25 05:24:30 EVANSTON, Ill. Astronomers have observed what they are calling a new type of supernova, which has provided an unparalleled glimpse into what happens deep within a star just before it explodes. A stu… [+8334 chars] Comments (0) A 'Third State' Exists Between Life and Death—And That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious, Some Scientists Say - menshealth.com Posted at 2025-08-25 05:24:06 The biological cycle of our existence seems relatively straightforward: were born, we live, we die. The end. But when you examine existence at the cellular level, things get a bit more interesting.… [+7333 chars] Comments (0) Rare ‘Black Moon’ means extra-dark sky for viewing Perseid meteor shower tonight - MLive.com Posted at 2025-08-25 05:23:35 This rare lunar occurrence is coming at the perfect time. The seasonal Black Moon will appear or rather, not appear tonight, during one of the final nights of the Perseid meteor shower, according t… [+1055 chars] Comments (0) NASA will announce its new astronaut class in September - Space Posted at 2025-08-25 05:22:40 NASA will announce its new astronaut class next month, and you'll be able to watch the unveiling live. The 2025 class of NASA astronaut candidates will be announced Sept. 22 during a livestreamed … [+3097 chars] Comments (0) Denisovan and Neanderthal DNA helped the first Americans survive, study finds - Archaeology News Online Magazine Posted at 2025-08-25 05:21:50 The first people to set foot in the Americas crossed with them not only stone technology and survival skills across the icy expanse of the Bering Strait. Along with these, a new study published in Sc… [+4147 chars] Comments (0) "It Felt Like Opening Another Earth": Scientists Reeling After Finding Ancient Hidden Ecosystem Thriving Beneath Antarctica’s Frozen Surface - Rude Baguette Posted at 2025-08-25 05:21:24 IN A NUTSHELL Beneath Antarctica’s ice, the ancient Transantarctic Mountains stretch over 2,175 miles, influencing ice flow and thickness. Researcher… [+5389 chars] Comments (0) Live coverage: NASA, SpaceX to launch Cargo Dragon on a mission to boost space station orbit - Spaceflight Now Posted at 2025-08-25 05:21:00 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the launch of SpaceX’s 33rd Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-33) mission. Image: SpaceX NAS… [+6956 chars] Comments (0) Why do some animals live just days while others live thousands of years? Scientists think they know - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-25 05:20:36 Bowhead whales can live more than 200 years. Tiny shrews barely make it a year. Some sea sponge species are over 15,000 years old. That gap raises a straightforward question: whats different at the b… [+6282 chars] Comments (0) "It Looked Alive In The Sky": Astronomers Stunned By Milky Way Cloud Holding Mass Of 160,000 Suns And Defying All Known Physics - Rude Baguette Posted at 2025-08-25 05:20:15 IN A NUTSHELL Astronomers discovered a massive molecular cloud in the Milky Way, weighing as much as 160,000 suns. The Green Bank Telescope played a … [+4859 chars] Comments (0) Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer Space Radio Wave - WIRED Posted at 2025-08-25 05:19:47 The Earth is constantly receiving space signals that contain vital information about extremely energetic phenomena. Among the most peculiar are brief pulses of extremely high-energy radio waves, know… [+3098 chars] Comments (0) A fisherman discovers a black iceberg off the northeast coast of Canada, leaving scientists in shock. - evidencenetwork.ca Posted at 2025-08-25 05:19:20 A Faroese fisherman’s extraordinary encounter with nature has left the scientific community stunned. Hallur Antoniussen was navigating his vessel Saputi through the icy waters near Carbonear when he … [+7097 chars] Comments (0) NASA spacecraft snaps photo of Earth from across the solar system - Mashable Posted at 2025-08-25 05:18:55 Comments (0) What appeared to be a normal galaxy concealed a ring of light never seen before - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-24 05:30:14 It is not every day that a nearby, cataloged galaxy reveals a secret hiding in plain sight. A new study reports a complete Einstein ring, a near perfect loop of light made when a more distant galaxys… [+5382 chars] Comments (0) Measuring a previously mysterious imaginary component of wave scattering - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-24 05:29:53 There has long been a mystery when calculating how an incoming light wave scatters off an object and becomes a modified, outgoing light wave. In particular, the time delay of the transition from one … [+6304 chars] Comments (0) Busy Beaver Hunters Reach Numbers That Overwhelm Ordinary Math - Quanta Magazine Posted at 2025-08-24 05:29:31 But just how much harder? In 1962, the mathematician Tibor Radó invented a new way to explore this question through what he called the busy beaver game. To play, start by choosing a specific number o… [+5012 chars] Comments (0) All Life on Earth Comes From One Single Ancestor. And It's So Much Older Than We Thought. - yahoo.com Posted at 2025-08-24 05:29:09 "Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." All life on Earth can be traced back to a Last Universal Common Ancestor, or LUCA. A … [+3831 chars] Comments (0) NASA’s Bennu Samples Reveal Complex Origins, Dramatic Transformation - NASA Science (.gov) Posted at 2025-08-24 05:28:48 Asteroid Bennu, sampled by NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission in 2020, is a mixture of dust that formed in our solar system, organic matter from interstellar space, and pre-solar system stardust. Its unique an… [+5821 chars] Comments (0) New dinosaur species with sail on its back discovered on Isle of Wight - NBC News Posted at 2025-08-24 05:28:28 LONDON A former PhD student analyzing 125-million-year-old fossils has made waves with the discovery of a new species of dinosaur that had a sail on its back. The findings,published in the journal P… [+3363 chars] Comments (0) Humans may have had a competitive edge over our ancient relatives, study suggests - CNN Posted at 2025-08-24 05:28:06 Modern humans are evolutionary survivors, thriving generation after generation while our ancient relatives died out. Now, new research into our brain chemistry suggests that an enzyme unique to Homo … [+6314 chars] Comments (0) Astronomer Discovery Shocks: Enormous 200-Light-Year Structure Found Channeling Energy Into Milky Way’s Core Stuns Scientists Worldwide - Rude Baguette Posted at 2025-08-24 05:27:44 IN A NUTSHELL Astronomers discovered the Midpoint cloud, a vast structure within the Milky Way, revealing new insights into star formation. The Green… [+6031 chars] Comments (0) Scientists are building cyborg jellyfish to explore ocean depths - Ars Technica Posted at 2025-08-24 05:27:22 Comments (0) What's a black moon? Here's what to expect this weekend - KSL.com Posted at 2025-08-24 05:27:01 ATLANTA The moon goes by many names. August saw the full sturgeon moon while in March sky-gazers may have witnessed the blood moon, which occurs when the satellite appears to turn red during a lunar … [+3699 chars] Comments (0) US military’s X-37B spaceplane stays relevant with launch of another mission - Ars Technica Posted at 2025-08-24 05:26:41 Comments (0) Sea-level projections from the 1990s were spot on, study says - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-24 05:26:17 Global sea-level change has now been measured by satellites for more than 30 years, and a comparison with climate projections from the mid-1990s shows that they were remarkably accurate, according to… [+3820 chars] Comments (0) Astronomers Capture Jaw-Dropping New Image of a Hand Amid the Stars - Good News Network Posted at 2025-08-24 05:25:56 Pulsar B1509-58 and a hand-shaped nebula known as MSH 15-52 – credit, NASA / CXC / Un Hong Kong Zhang et al. via SWNS A coalition of telescopes have allowed astronomers to produce an image of the ne… [+1950 chars] Comments (0) Mysterious 300,000-year-old Greek cave skull was neither human nor Neanderthal, study finds - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-24 05:25:33 A mysterious skull with a stalagmite growing out of its head is about 300,000 years old and neither human nor Neanderthal , a new study finds. The skull was reportedly discovered attached to the wa… [+3234 chars] Comments (0) One of the earliest galaxies in the universe was rich in oxygen. Could it mean life evolved earlier than we thought? - Space Posted at 2025-08-24 05:25:12 A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its present age, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how … [+3741 chars] Comments (0) Never-before-seen type of supernova reveals a peek inside a massive star before it dies - CNN Posted at 2025-08-24 05:24:50 Astronomers have observed what they are calling a new type of supernova, which has provided an unparalleled glimpse into what happens deep within a star just before it explodes. A study detailing th… [+9558 chars] Comments (0) Black Holes Are the Elusive Source of the Universe’s Dark Energy, Study Argues - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-24 05:24:28 Dark energythe hypothetical force accelerating our universes expansionsometimes raises more questions than it answers. A new study, however, presents surprising evidence that black holes may be an in… [+3196 chars] Comments (0) Watch Blue Origin launch its 200th payload on 35th New Shepard spaceflight Aug. 23 - Space Posted at 2025-08-24 05:23:54 Blue Origin plans to launch its 35th New Shepard mission on Saturday (Aug. 23), and you can watch live. The commercial spaceflight company, which was founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, will send its… [+2929 chars] Comments (0) Moon phase today: What the moon will look like on August 22, 2025 - Mashable Posted at 2025-08-24 05:23:04 Comments (0) Scientists discover that North America is 'dripping' underneath, down into Earth's mantle - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-24 05:22:20 Beneath the stable crust of North America, scientists have discovered something extraordinary: the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in blobs of rock.  This unusual geologic proce… [+5203 chars] Comments (0) Meet Wukong, the AI Chatbot China Has Installed on Its Space Station - WIRED Posted at 2025-08-23 05:22:33 The latest addition to Chinas Tiangong space station is an AI chatbot with expertise in navigation and tactical planning. Named Wukong AIafter the protagonist of the Monkey King legend in Chinese myt… [+2699 chars] Comments (0) Curiosity rover images 3 intersecting Mars ridges photo of the day for Aug. 21, 2025 - Space Posted at 2025-08-23 05:22:10 On August 8, 2025, NASA's Curiosity rover found itself at the intersection of three ridges found on the Martian landscape. This "peace sign" shape, as called by NASA engineers, is part of a larger bo… [+1904 chars] Comments (0) What happened before the Big Bang? Computational method may provide answers - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-23 05:21:46 We're often told it is "unscientific" or "meaningless" to ask what happened before the Big Bang. But a new paper by FQxI cosmologist Eugene Lim, of King's College London, UK, and astrophysicists Katy… [+6365 chars] Comments (0) SpaceX Dragon Capsule Delivers 6,700 Lbs of Futuristic Robots From Space Mission That Sparks Global Debate Over Humanity’s Technological Limits - Rude Baguette Posted at 2025-08-23 05:21:22 IN A NUTSHELL SpaceX’s Dragon capsule returned with 6,700 pounds of advanced equipment from the ISS. The MISSE-20 project tested material durability … [+5450 chars] Comments (0) Reining in the sun: Venus, Earth and Jupiter may work together to reduce the risk of extreme solar storms - Space Posted at 2025-08-23 05:20:57 A new study suggests that the planets in our solar system may be helping to keep the sun calmer than other sun-like stars, potentially lowering the risk of powerful solar storms that could disrupt mo… [+3619 chars] Comments (0) Close-Up Views of NASA’s DART Impact to Inform Planetary Defense - NASA Science (.gov) Posted at 2025-08-23 05:20:33 On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination was NASAs DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft flying towar… [+5135 chars] Comments (0) Mystery hominin skull discovered in 1960 dated to at least 286,000 years old - Archaeology News Online Magazine Posted at 2025-08-23 05:20:10 A mystery in human evolution may be close to being solved, thanks to a new study by the Institut de Paléontologie Humaine in France. A nearly complete cranium discovered in 1960 inside the Petralona … [+3269 chars] Comments (0) Astronomers trace massive cosmic explosion back 12 billion years. 'This is the most distant event where we can directly see light escaping from around stars' - Space Posted at 2025-08-23 05:19:43 Astronomers have used a newly discovered and still mysterious class of cosmic explosions to better understand the process of stellar life and death in the distant universe. The blasts in question ar… [+5055 chars] Comments (0) Bones of ancient child suggest humans could have interbred with Neanderthals earlier than thought - AP News Posted at 2025-08-23 05:19:19 TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) Modern humans and Neanderthals were interacting 100,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who used CT scans and 3D mapping to study the bones of a … [+5161 chars] Comments (0) Black holes may be the engines driving the universe's dark energy - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-23 05:18:57 Researchers at Durham and collaborators in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) mission have proposed a bold new theory that black holes could be converting matter into dark energy. The i… [+3260 chars] Comments (0) Astronomers found a tiny moon orbiting Uranus. There are likely more waiting to be spotted - CNN Posted at 2025-08-23 05:18:24 Astronomers using the powerful eye of the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a previously unknown moon whirling around Uranus, according to NASA. The discovery boosts the number of moons known t… [+7720 chars] Comments (0) People were getting high and hallucinating from smoking this psychoactive plant 2,700 years ago - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-23 05:17:37 New analysis of ancient household burners from Qurayyah in northwest Saudi Arabia points to smoke from Peganum harmala seeds being inhaled in daily life nearly 2,700 years ago. The work opens a win… [+5943 chars] Comments (0) There will be a 'Black Moon' this weekend in Portland. What does that mean? - KGW Posted at 2025-08-23 05:16:50 PORTLAND, Ore. Look up in the sky this weekend, and you'll see ... not much. A rare "Black Moon" is rising late Friday night. It may not be as dramatic as an eclipse or a meteor shower, but this rar… [+1780 chars] Comments (0) How do the biggest stars in the universe grow so large? - Space Posted at 2025-08-23 05:16:28 There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the width of the sun. If it were placed in our solar system, it would stretch to … [+4362 chars] Comments (0) The first Americans had Denisovan DNA. And it may have helped them survive. - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-23 05:16:03 The first people to step foot in the Americas were harboring a sliver of DNA from two extinct Eurasian human groups: the Neanderthals and the Denisovans , a new study finds. This genetic relic c… [+4907 chars] Comments (0) Astronomers discover strange new type of supernova: 'This is the first time we have seen a star that was essentially stripped to the bone' - Space Posted at 2025-08-23 05:15:41 Astronomers have used a new type of extreme supernova in which a massive star was stripped right "down to the bone" to better understand the process of stellar life and death. When other massive sta… [+6471 chars] Comments (0) Underwater volcano off Oregon coast could erupt by the end of the year, researchers say, but nothing ‘looks imminent’ - yahoo.com Posted at 2025-08-23 05:15:18 An underwater volcano off the coast of Oregon that was forecast to erupt sometime this year doesnt look imminent, according to volcanologists who are closely monitoring it. The Axial Seamount is loc… [+3026 chars] Comments (0) Secretive mini space shuttle launches on Space Coast - Orlando Sentinel Posted at 2025-08-23 05:14:55 It won’t have any crew, but the U.S. Space Force hitched a ride on SpaceX to send the Boeing-built X-37B spacecraft which looks like a miniature space shuttle back for a long-duration mission to orbi… [+5378 chars] Comments (0) Scientists think they detected the first known triple black hole system in the universe — and then watched it die - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-22 05:20:45 Chinese astronomers may have discovered a never-before-seen triple black hole system. The team identified this triplet, which is locked in a complex "waltz," after spotting a hidden supermassive bla… [+4181 chars] Comments (0) New Insights in Today’s Research Notes on 3I/ATLAS - Avi Loeb – Medium Posted at 2025-08-22 05:20:19 Avi Loebs research notes on 3I/ATLAS (August 24, 2025). Before my morning jog at sunrise, I sketched a model for the dust outflow around the new interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS, which appears as a fuz… [+6740 chars] Comments (0) The Pursuit of Life Where It Seems Unimaginable - Quanta Magazine Posted at 2025-08-22 05:19:56 Its surprising because they would be the only organisms on Earth to do this. There are many metabolic processes that go in the forward direction and the reverse direction. That is something that life… [+1624 chars] Comments (0) Electrochemical loading enhances deuterium fusion rates in a metal target - Nature Posted at 2025-08-22 05:19:32 Comments (0) Accidental double zoom reveals millimeter waves around supermassive black hole - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-22 05:19:10 An international team of astronomers led by Matus Rybak (Leiden University, Netherlands) has proven, thanks to accidental double zoom, that millimeter radiation is generated close to the core of a su… [+3324 chars] Comments (0) Uranus has a new, hidden moon, James Webb Space Telescope reveals - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-22 05:18:47 The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet's count of natural satellites to 29. The moon, for now dubbed S/2025 U1, is just 6 miles (10 … [+3501 chars] Comments (0) Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy says the agency will 'move aside' from climate sciences to focus on exploring moon and Mars - Space Posted at 2025-08-22 05:18:25 NASA's acting Administrator Sean Duffy says the agency will step back from climate science to focus on space exploration — highlighting a growing shift in the agency's overall mission. The remarks e… [+4753 chars] Comments (0) "We’re Seeing Something Massive": Astronomers Detect Possible Ninth Planet Beyond Neptune And Trigger Global Shock Over Discovery - Rude Baguette Posted at 2025-08-22 05:18:04 IN A NUTSHELL Astronomers have identified a promising candidate for the elusive Planet Nine using archival satellite data. The discovery has sparked … [+5371 chars] Comments (0) Searching for answers behind the extinction of the largest primate that ever lived - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-22 05:17:42 An international team of researchers is looking for answers behind the mystery of Gigantopithecus blacki, a giant prehistoric primate that once lived in what is now southern China. The species is kn… [+5260 chars] Comments (0) Mammals that chose ants and termites as food almost never go back - Ars Technica Posted at 2025-08-22 05:17:20 Comments (0) Scientists Goofed and Accidentally Created a New Kind of Fish - AOL.com Posted at 2025-08-22 05:16:58 Scientists Goofed and Created a Fish Hybrid Paris Golfinopoulos / 500px - Getty Images "Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Heres what youl… [+2809 chars] Comments (0) NASA: Ceres May Have Had Long-Standing Energy to Fuel Habitability - NASA (.gov) Posted at 2025-08-22 05:16:36 The dwarf planet is cold now, but new research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived energy source that may have maintained habitable conditions in the past. New NASA research has fou… [+4486 chars] Comments (0) Engineered yeast provides rare but essential pollen sterols for honeybees - Nature Posted at 2025-08-22 05:16:14 Comments (0) X-ray and Radio go ‘Hand in Hand’ in New Image - NASA (.gov) Posted at 2025-08-22 05:15:53 In 2009, NASAs Chandra X-ray Observatory released a captivating image: a pulsar and its surrounding nebula that is shaped like a hand. Since then, astronomers have used Chandra and other telescopes … [+6114 chars] Comments (0) Abrupt Antarctic climate shifts could lead to "catastrophic consequences for generations," experts warn - CBS News Posted at 2025-08-22 05:15:32 Abrupt and potentially irreversible changes in Antarctica driven by climate change could lift global oceans by meters and lead to "catastrophic consequences for generations," scientists warned Wednes… [+5201 chars] Comments (0) The latest on BREC’s delayed 2023 state audit - Baton Rouge Business Report Posted at 2025-08-22 05:15:10 External auditors have issued an unmodified opinion on BRECs 2023 financial statements as the agency works to complete its delayed annual state audits. EisnerAmper issued the opinion, which … Comments (0) SpaceX Returns 3 Tons of Cutting-Edge Robotics, Sending Shockwaves Through Space Tech - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-22 05:14:47 On May 25, 2025, SpaceXs Dragon capsule made a successful splashdown off the coast of California, bringing back an impressive 6,700 pounds of scientific experiments, hardware, and innovative technolo… [+7740 chars] Comments (0) Scientists program cells to create biological qubit in multidisciplinary research - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-22 05:14:25 At first glance, biology and quantum technology seem incompatible. Living systems operate in warm, noisy environments full of constant motion, while quantum technology typically requires extreme isol… [+4997 chars] Comments (0) Pacific coast on high alert for massive underwater volcano eruption - Axios Posted at 2025-08-22 05:14:03 Driving the news: Researchers have been monitoring the recent activity of the Axial Seamount, a volcano located about 4,900 feet underwater in the northeastern Pacific Ocean, because there are indica… [+2490 chars] Comments (0) Scientists Unveil Game-Changing Solar Sail Tech That Could Make Fuel-Free Space Travel A Reality! - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-21 05:14:15 A recent study from the University of Nottingham has unveiled groundbreaking research into fuel-free spacecraft propulsion systems, providing hope for more sustainable space exploration. The study, t… [+4530 chars] Comments (0) Scientists put a dead cow on the deep ocean floor and filmed something very unexpected - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-21 05:13:56 Eight Pacific sleeper sharks showed up for dinner when researchers dropped a cow carcass to the seafloor of the South China Sea at 5,344 feet (1,629 meters) near Hainan Island. The visit offered a … [+5431 chars] Comments (0) This Famous Star Is a Total Fraud, Astronomers Say - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-21 05:13:37 In March 2022, the Hubble Space Telescope peered through the distant cosmos and detected the light of an apparent star located 12.9 billion light-years away. Astronomers named it Earendel, meaning “m… [+2537 chars] Comments (0) "We Shouldn’t Be Here": Astronomer Reveals Bizarre 200-Light-Year Structure Pouring Matter Into Milky Way’s Dark Center - Rude Baguette Posted at 2025-08-21 05:13:18 IN A NUTSHELL Astronomers discovered the Midpoint cloud, a Giant Molecular Cloud spanning 650 trillion miles. The Green Bank Telescope played a cruci… [+5776 chars] Comments (0) LHCb collaboration observes ultra-rare baryon decay - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-21 05:12:59 Baryons, composite particles made up of three quarks bound together via the so-called strong force, make up the most visible matter and have thus been the focus of numerous physics studies. Studying … [+5854 chars] Comments (0) It Looks Like China's Getting Ready to Land Astronauts on the Moon While NASA Flails Helplessly - Futurism Posted at 2025-08-21 05:12:41 Over half a year into Donald Trump's second term, NASA still doesn't have a long-term head. That leadership vacuum comes as the space agency is staring down the barrel of some devastating cuts to it… [+3501 chars] Comments (0) Researchers May Have Finally Cracked One Of The Universe's Oldest Mysteries - yahoo.com Posted at 2025-08-21 05:12:22 The early universe is perhaps one of the biggest mysteries of our time, and while we've come close to unraveling some of those earliest mysteries thanks to advancing tech like the James Webb Space Te… [+3801 chars] Comments (0) California’s Next ‘Big One’ Might Not Follow the Script - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-21 05:12:01 On March 28, a devastating magnitude 7.7 earthquake rocked Myanmar, splitting the Sagaing Fault at speeds of over 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) per second. You know which other fault resembles the Sagaing… [+3952 chars] Comments (0) Octopus with special trick filmed drifting through the darkness 1,047m down - BBC Wildlife Magazine Posted at 2025-08-21 05:11:43 Imagine a life spent riding currents, never touching solid earth, says Schmidt Ocean Institute on Instagram alongside a captivating video of a pelagic octopus drifting along. "Youd have to be differe… [+718 chars] Comments (0) A rare Black Moon rises with the sun on Aug. 23: Here's what to expect - Space Posted at 2025-08-21 05:11:24 On Aug. 23, the night sky will play host to an unusual lunar event known as a Black Moon. While you won't actually see anything unusual (in fact, you won't see the moon at all), this event is still… [+3037 chars] Comments (0) NASA’s Psyche Captures Images of Earth, Moon - NASA (.gov) Posted at 2025-08-21 05:11:06 Headed for a metal-rich asteroid of the same name, the Psyche spacecraft successfully calibrated its cameras by looking homeward. On schedule for its 2029 arrival at the asteroid Psyche, NASAs Psych… [+4467 chars] Comments (0) Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved from - Good News Network Posted at 2025-08-21 05:10:47 Skull of a female A africanus – credit, Didier Descouens, CC BY-SA 4.0, From Ethiopia comes an incredible discoveryearly humans seem to have potentially lived alongside the very apes they evolved fr… [+3079 chars] Comments (0) How 30 years of NOAA research led to one very accurate and timely tsunami forecast - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) (.gov) Posted at 2025-08-21 05:10:27 Comments (0) Genetic mutation in key enzyme may explain why humans survived while Neanderthals went extinct - Archaeology News Online Magazine Posted at 2025-08-21 05:09:21 A minor genetic difference in one of the enzymes may have helped separate modern humans from Neanderthals and Denisovans, our closest extinct relatives, and may have even contributed to the fact that… [+5649 chars] Comments (0) NASA's Webb telescope finds a new tiny moon around Uranus - ABC News Posted at 2025-08-21 05:08:11 NEW YORK -- The Webb Space Telescope has spotted a new tiny moon orbiting Uranus. The new member of the lunar gang, announced Tuesday by NASA, appears to be just six miles (10 kilometers) wide. It w… [+704 chars] Comments (0) Fireball meteor lights Japan's sky up in blue, caught on camera | WATCH | World News - Hindustan Times - Hindustan Times Posted at 2025-08-21 05:07:24 A fireball meteor tore through the Earth's atmosphere and lit up the sky with bright blue light in Japan's Kyushu and Shikoku, with Fukuoka Airport's camera catching the event on footage. The fireba… [+1429 chars] Comments (0) The Milky Way's faintest satellite may not be what astronomers thought. 'These results solve a major mystery in astrophysics' - Space Posted at 2025-08-21 05:06:49 A ghostly object orbiting the Milky Way has left astronomers questioning its composition: Is it a dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxy or a star cluster bound by a hidden swarm of black holes? Ursa Ma… [+2323 chars] Comments (0) "We Ignited Pure Fury": Venus Aerospace Rocket Test Unleashes Rotating Detonation Power and Signals Start of a New Space Age - Rude Baguette Posted at 2025-08-21 05:06:32 IN A NUTSHELL Venus Aerospace’s test of the Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine marks a breakthrough in propulsion technology. The engine uses superson… [+5242 chars] Comments (0) Mile-deep underwater volcano off West Coast could erupt soon, scientists say - ABC News Posted at 2025-08-21 05:06:14 Comments (0) There’s Something Really Suspicious About the Way This Star Died - Yahoo News UK Posted at 2025-08-20 05:15:01 Stellar death is a complex and mysterious process but in the case of a supernova known as 2023zkd, things were more gruesome than any astronomer had ever seen before. As its name suggests, this supe… [+3217 chars] Comments (0) The Top Ten Differential Equations in Astronomy, Ranked! - Astrobites Posted at 2025-08-20 05:14:43 Mathematics is often accused of being too esoteric and abstract to matter in everyday life – even by astronomers – and maybe this is a valid criticism. In the real world, a neighborhood is where your… [+13902 chars] Comments (0) Scientists Confirm What Every Beachgoer Secretly Fears About Seabirds - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-20 05:14:25 As a seabird researcher, Leo Uesaka spends most of his time reviewing hours of bird footage. That can get quite tedious and demanding at times, but every second is worth paying attention toafter all,… [+3002 chars] Comments (0) Astronomers Capture the “Eye of Sauron” Beaming at Earth - SciTechDaily Posted at 2025-08-20 05:14:08 Looking inside the plasma jet cone of the blazar PKS 1424+240 with a radio telescope of the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). Credit: NSF/AUI/NRAO/B. Saxton/Y.Y. Kovalev et al. A cosmic jet aimed at … [+7552 chars] Comments (0) These Chunks of Ice Move All By Themselves, Thanks to a Cool Engineering Trick - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-20 05:13:50 It looks like something straight out of a Ouija board horror movie, but frostyresearchers have figured out how to make ice move by itself. A video capturing the creepy dynamic features an ice disk m… [+3292 chars] Comments (0) First Insect Proven To Use Milky Way For Orientation Uses Its Superpower To Push Big Balls Of Poop - IFLScience Posted at 2025-08-20 05:13:33 The sky at night. It inspires awe. It inspires thoughts of an existential nature: Who are we? Why are we here? And, perhaps most importantly of all, in which direction should I roll this big ball of … [+2969 chars] Comments (0) How An Eclipse And One Of The World’s Most Dangerous Volcano Changed Chemistry For Good - IFLScience Posted at 2025-08-20 05:13:05 If you think of helium, you are probably thinking of party balloons and squeaky voices. That doesn't do the element justice. It has a large number of technical and industrial applications, and is the… [+3086 chars] Comments (0) This Newly Launched Satellite Just ‘Bloomed’ a Record-Breaking Antenna in Orbit - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-20 05:11:53 A first-of-its-kind satellite recently launched into orbit to monitor Earth’s changing surfaces, detecting movement of the planet’s crust down to fractions of an inch. The satellite packed a giant ra… [+3080 chars] Comments (0) The Mystery of Mercury’s Shrinking Revealed: New Study Estimates 5.6 km Contraction - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-20 05:11:34 In a groundbreaking study published in AGU Advances, shed new light on the long-standing question of how much Mercury, the smallest planet in our solar system, has shrunk since its formation over 4.5… [+4721 chars] Comments (0) Gene that differs between humans and Neanderthals could shed light on the species' disappearance, mouse study suggests - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-20 05:11:16 A protein that helps synthesize DNA is different in modern humans than it is in Neanderthals and Denisovans — our closest extinct relatives — and new experiments in mice genetically modified to expre… [+5778 chars] Comments (0) This Bright Dot May Be an Entirely New Type of Space Object - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-20 05:10:58 At first, the dot looked like any other star. Then the astrophysicists switched to polarized light and found themselves looking at an entirely unexpected sight. Everything else disappeared, even the… [+3602 chars] Comments (0) After recent tests, China appears likely to beat the United States back to the Moon - Ars Technica Posted at 2025-08-20 05:10:40 Comments (0) SpaceX sends 24 Starlink satellites into orbit on 100th Falcon 9 launch of the year (video) - Space Posted at 2025-08-20 05:10:22 SpaceX sent another batch of its Starlink broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit today (Aug. 18), atop a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The laun… [+1657 chars] Comments (0) It's Official: NASA Is Giving Up on Climate Change Science - Futurism Posted at 2025-08-20 05:10:04 Houston, we have a problem. Junk Science In a major blow to climate change science, NASA is officially not continuing its work studying global warming and will instead just stick to space explorati… [+2055 chars] Comments (0) Look for Mercury in the morning sky as it hits peak distance from the sun on Aug. 19. - Space Posted at 2025-08-20 05:09:46 Mercury will be farthest from the sun on Tuesday (Aug. 19), granting early risers a perfect opportunity to spot the fleet-footed world somewhat separated from the glare of our parent star. Mercury … [+2960 chars] Comments (0) Mysterious Object Hurtling Toward Us From Beyond Solar System Appears to Be Emitting Its Own Light, Scientists Find - Yahoo News Canada Posted at 2025-08-20 05:09:28 Last month, astronomers made an exciting discovery, observing an interstellar object only the third ever observed hurtling toward the center of the solar system. The object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, has cau… [+2859 chars] Comments (0) Parker Solar Probe confirms decades-old theoretical models about magnetic reconnection - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-20 05:09:09 New research led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has confirmed decades-old theoretical models of magnetic reconnection, the process that releases stored magnetic energy to drive solar flares, … [+3949 chars] Comments (0) Chinese astronauts beef up Tiangong space station's debris shield during 6.5-hour spacewalk (video) - Space Posted at 2025-08-20 05:08:51 Chinese astronauts added more debris shielding to the Tiangong space station during a 6.5-hour spacewalk on Friday (Aug. 15), according to state media. Two astronauts from the three-person Shenzhou … [+2211 chars] Comments (0) New Study Fuels Debate Over World-Changing Comet Strike 12,800 Years Ago - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-20 05:08:33 Roughly 12,800 years ago, as Earth was emerging from its last great ice age, temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere suddenly plummeted back to near-glacial conditions. The cause of this abrupt shift… [+3701 chars] Comments (0) Map shows Oregon, 15 other states, where northern lights could be visible Monday night - OregonLive.com Posted at 2025-08-20 05:08:15 The northern part of the United States could get a chance to see lights in the sky Monday night, when the view line for the auroras lands on the Oregon-Washington border. The planet is still experie… [+1164 chars] Comments (0) Six-Planet Parade On Monday: When And Where To See It By A Crescent Moon - Forbes Posted at 2025-08-19 05:22:25 The planet parade mistakenly being called an alignment by many continues on Monday, Aug. 18, with four planets visible to the naked eye an hour before sunrise. Uranus and Neptune will also be in the … [+3891 chars] Comments (0) Giant 'X' appears over Chile as 2 celestial beams of light cross: Space photo of the week - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-19 05:22:07 The Milky Way and zodiacal light crisscross above the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. (Image credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)) What it is: T… [+2736 chars] Comments (0) Lab-grown stem cells initiate key steps of human egg and sperm formation - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-19 05:21:49 More than one-sixth of adults around the world experience infertility in their lifetime. There is a high unmet need not only for increased access to affordable, high-quality fertility care for those … [+8435 chars] Comments (0) A Mega-Quake Shocked Myanmar. Could California Be Next? - SciTechDaily Posted at 2025-08-19 05:21:30 Myanmar’s 2025 quake reveals that major faults may unleash far larger, more unpredictable earthquakes than scientists once believed. Credit: Shutterstock A massive quake in Myanmar revealed the Saga… [+6081 chars] Comments (0) Predicting the topological properties of quantum spin liquids using Rydberg atom lattices - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-19 05:21:13 Topological quantum systems are physical systems exhibiting properties that depend on the overall connectivity of their underlying lattice, as opposed to local interactions and their microscopic stru… [+4615 chars] Comments (0) Astronomers Say They’ve Finally Solved the “Little Red Dots” Mystery - Yahoo News Australia Posted at 2025-08-19 05:20:55 When the James Webb Space Telescope first came online in 2022, it immediately spotted something astronomers had never seen before: "little red dots" peppering the ancient expanse of deep space, origi… [+3654 chars] Comments (0) Billions of Sea Stars Are Wasting Away, And We Finally Know Why - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-19 05:20:36 Billions of sea stars have wasted away in recent years, their crustose, spiny bodies melted to goop by a mysterious illness known as sea star wasting disease. The culprit behind this epidemic has ev… [+5557 chars] Comments (0) Triassic freshwater deposits at Petrified Forest preserve diverse tanystropheids - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-19 05:20:18 Researchers report three distinct tanystropheid taxa from the upper Blue Mesa Member of the Chinle Formation in the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, including a new genus and species, Akido… [+4501 chars] Comments (0) Mysterious Radio Bursts Unveil Hidden Cosmic Matter Between Galaxies - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-19 05:19:59 Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that unveils one of the universes greatest mysteries: the elusive ordinary matter that lies between galaxies. For decades, scientists have struggled t… [+4260 chars] Comments (0) Self-propelled ice could be the green power of the future - Tech Xplore Posted at 2025-08-19 05:19:40 Scientists from Virginia Tech have discovered a way to make ice move on its own. It's not a magic trick or a supernatural occurrence but a clever engineering feat. The team designed a flat metal surf… [+3535 chars] Comments (0) Blue Origin’s New Glenn Rocket Set to Launch Mars Probes in Historic Mission - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-19 05:19:21 Blue Origin is gearing up for the second-ever launch of its New Glenn rocket, set to carry NASA’s ambitious ESCAPADE mission to Mars on September 29, 2025. According to a report from Space.com, Blue … [+3339 chars] Comments (0) Astronomer Stuns World After "Blazing Spine Feeds Galactic Heart" With Shocking Revelation of 200-Light-Year-Wide Structure Hidden in Milky Way’s Core - Rude Baguette Posted at 2025-08-19 05:19:03 IN A NUTSHELL Scientists have discovered the Midpoint Cloud, a massive structure within the Milky Way spanning 650 trillion miles. The Green Bank Tel… [+5680 chars] Comments (0) Russia Set to Launch "Noah’s Ark" Mission: Mice, Fruit Flies, and Lunar Simulants to Explore Space - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-19 05:18:44 On August 20, 2025, Russia will launch the Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite atop a Soyuz-2.1b rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, marking a key step in studying the effects of spaceflight on … [+5816 chars] Comments (0) How Much Has Mercury Shrunk? - Space Posted at 2025-08-19 05:18:26 What do many baked goods and the planet Mercury have in common? They shrink as they cool. Evidence suggests that since it formed about 4.5 billion years ago, Mercury has continuously contracted as i… [+2445 chars] Comments (0) Does 3I/ATLAS Generate Its Own Light? - Avi Loeb – Medium Posted at 2025-08-19 05:18:08 The Hubble Space Telescope of 3I/ATLAS on 21 July 2025 shows a sun-facing glow ahead of the object and no tail as often observed in comets. (Image credit: D. Jewitt et al/NASA/Wikimedia) The best im… [+7638 chars] Comments (0) The Hidden Geometry That Could Explain the Universe - SciTechDaily Posted at 2025-08-19 05:17:49 Illustration of a set of real zeros of a graph polynomial (middle) and two Feynman diagrams. Credit: Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences How can the tiniest particles and the vast s… [+7285 chars] Comments (0) Mind-blowing footage of SpaceX Dragon orbiting Earth has everyone saying the same thing - UNILAD Posted at 2025-08-19 05:17:31 SpaceX's Dragon spacecrafts orbit has shown something phenomenal about the Earth, and it's left social media users making the same point. After the Fram2 mission successfully shared the 'first views… [+3092 chars] Comments (0) Geologists Unearth Mysterious Hidden Oases Beneath the Great Salt Lake - Indian Defence Review Posted at 2025-08-19 05:17:12 As water levels in the Great Salt Lake continue to drop, a hidden and fascinating geological discovery has surfaced, bringing new scientific interest to an already fragile ecosystem. At the heart of … [+3251 chars] Comments (0) Oops! Earendel, most distant star ever discovered, may not actually be a star, James Webb Telescope reveals - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-19 05:16:54 The most distant star ever discovered may have been misclassified: Instead of being a single star, the object — nicknamed Earendel from the Old English word for "morning star" — may be a star cluster… [+5344 chars] Comments (0) New early Homo species discovered that challenges 'ape-to-human' evolution theory - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-19 05:16:35 The story of human evolution is not a simple ladder from early forms to more advanced ones. For decades, fossils shaped a picture of steady, linear progress – one form giving rise to another in a nea… [+5289 chars] Comments (0) Scientists Baffled by "Alien Mineral" That Acts in a Weird Way When Heated Up - Futurism Posted at 2025-08-18 05:26:25 There is quite literally nothing like this on Earth. Alien Crystals A strange mineral found in a meteorite does not behave like anything on Earth when it's heated. In a paper published in the jour… [+1773 chars] Comments (0) Fossils show two types of ancient human ancestors lived at the same place and time. One was possibly an unknown species - CNN Posted at 2025-08-18 05:26:05 Ancient, fossilized teeth, uncovered during a decades-long archaeology project in northeastern Ethiopia, indicate that two different kinds of hominins, or human ancestors, lived in the same place bet… [+9561 chars] Comments (0) Topological spin textures: Scientists use micro-structured materials to control light propagation - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-18 05:25:46 Topological spin textures, spatially organized patterns linked to the intrinsic angular momentum of particles, have proved to be highly advantageous for the development of spintronics and quantum tec… [+7884 chars] Comments (0) Incredible Fossil Reveals Two-Headed Creature From The Dinosaur Age - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-18 05:25:27 Rare malformations can cause animals to grow two heads and it seems that kind of thing has been happening for millions of years. In 2006, paleontologists in China described a two-headed fossil from t… [+1970 chars] Comments (0) Saturday Citations: A new category of supernovas; neurons beat machine learning; depression and vitiligo - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-18 05:25:06 Based on simulations, researchers report that the next big earthquake along the San Andreas fault is unlikely to resemble previous quakes. Researchers at the intersection of algebra, geometry, partic… [+4600 chars] Comments (0) Dinosaur tracks reappear at San Antonio. Here's where to find them. - MySA Posted at 2025-08-18 05:24:47 The dinosaur tracks are now visible at Government Canyon State Natural Area. Courtesy of Government Canyon State Natural Area After spending weeks underwater, ancient dinosaur tracks dating back to… [+1723 chars] Comments (0) Scientists have finally made an elusive meteorite diamond, predicted to be 50% harder than Earth diamonds - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-18 05:24:28 Scientists have created the first sizable meteorite diamond — also known as lonsdaleite or hexagonal diamond — a material predicted to be even harder than the diamonds normally found on Earth. The h… [+5254 chars] Comments (0) Titan darkens Saturn in rare shadow transit on Aug. 19: Here's how to see it - Space Posted at 2025-08-18 05:24:08 Grab your telescope and aim it at Saturn in the early morning hours of Aug. 19 to see Titan's colossal shadow sweep across the majestic gas giant's cloud tops. (Image credit: Jason Parnell-Brookes) … [+2980 chars] Comments (0) If everyone in the world turned on the lights at the same time, what would happen? - Space Posted at 2025-08-18 05:23:49 This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The biggest effect of everyone turning lights … [+5488 chars] Comments (0) Scientists convert living flies into microrobots, forcing swarms to write "HELLO WORLD" - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-18 05:23:30 Tiny robots often struggle with batteries, sensors, and navigation, yet a common fruit fly already packs all three in a two and a half millimeter body. Researchers at Harvards Rowland Institute have … [+7157 chars] Comments (0) NASA’s Curiosity Rover Just Found ‘Dinosaur Eggs’ on Mars… Is This a Clue to Ancient Life? - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-18 05:23:11 NASA’s Curiosity rover continues its trek through the Martian terrain with a new stop that has captured both scientific and visual intrigue. In a blog update from NASAs Science Mission Directorate on… [+5375 chars] Comments (0) Scientists just recreated the universe's first ever molecules — and the results challenge our understanding of the early cosmos - Space Posted at 2025-08-18 05:22:52 This story was provided by Live Science, a sister site of Space.com. For the first time, researchers have recreated the universe's first ever molecules by mimicking the conditions of the early unive… [+3327 chars] Comments (0) Meet the 'neglectons': Previously overlooked particles that could revolutionize quantum computing - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-18 05:22:34 Mathematicians have found a way to transform an unproductive quantum computing approach by reviving a class of previously discarded particles. Quantum computers can solve problems beyond the capab… [+4169 chars] Comments (0) Australian Paleontologists Discover Weird ‘Pokémon’ Ancestor of Modern Whales - The Daily Beast Posted at 2025-08-18 05:22:15 Researchers have named a bizarre, prehistoric species of whale discovered on a beach in Australia. Janjucetus dullardi might have looked for all the world like some weird kind of mash-up between a wh… [+906 chars] Comments (0) 'Mysterious Giant' Hints at The First Detection of a Black Hole Trinary - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-18 05:21:53 A strange signal in the background hum created by a merger between two black holes could be the first ever detection of a system of three stellar-mass black holes locked in a gravitational waltz. Ac… [+3902 chars] Comments (0) NASA shares photos of an extraordinary event witnessed by astronauts on the ISS - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-18 05:21:34 While most people witness only the familiar crack of thunder and flash of lightning from storms on Earth, brilliantly-colorful electric fireworks detonate much higher, in the thin air up to 55 miles … [+5493 chars] Comments (0) Could Comet 3I/Atlas Be A Threat? Here's What Experts Are Saying - yahoo.com Posted at 2025-08-18 05:21:14 On the 1st of July 2025, the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) in Chile spotted a new comet entering our solar system. This comet was named 3I/ATLAS, as it's only the third inters… [+4291 chars] Comments (0) Washington-made rockets taking NASA to the moon for the first time in half a century - KOMO Posted at 2025-08-18 05:19:43 REDMOND, Wash. NASAs Artemis campaign is a bold series of missions to take humans back to the moon... and those astronauts will get there thanks to help from rocket engines made right here in Washing… [+1604 chars] Comments (0) This 8,200-foot giant in Alaska has just provided the key to the mystery behind the eruption of the most sneaky of volcanoes: the stealth type. - evidencenetwork.ca Posted at 2025-08-18 05:19:14 The Mount Veniaminof volcano in Alaska stands as a perfect example of nature’s most deceptive geological phenomena. This 2,507-meter giant has baffled scientists for decades with its ability to erupt… [+7551 chars] Comments (0) Supervolcano shows signs of waking up, which is not a good thing, but scientists have a plan - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-18 05:18:50 If you live around Naples, you know the ground breathes. Streets crack, the harbor silts up, steam curls from the earth, and swarms of small quakes rattle windows. All that action comes from Campi Fl… [+6268 chars] Comments (0) This baby star's big explosion fired back: 'Nature is far more complex than humans think' - Space Posted at 2025-08-17 05:17:07 A team of Japanese astronomers have spotted an explosion in deep space that is not only influencing the very star that triggered it, but also distorting the planet-forming disk surrounding it. The d… [+3122 chars] Comments (0) James Webb Space Telescope uncovers 300 mysteriously luminous objects. Are they galaxies or something else? - Space Posted at 2025-08-17 05:16:49 Hundreds of unexpectedly energetic objects have been discovered throughout the distant universe, possibly hinting that the cosmos was far more active during its infancy than astronomers once believed… [+2595 chars] Comments (0) Our Closest Sun-Like Star May Host a World Where Life Could Thrive - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-17 05:16:30 There may be a habitable world at the Sun's closest solar twin. In the complex space inhabited by the Alpha Centauri triple star system, JWST has just discerned the presence of a giant exoplanet orb… [+4904 chars] Comments (0) Astronomers Detect Oxygen in a Galaxy from the Dawn of Time - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-17 05:16:13 A groundbreaking discovery has reshaped our perception of how fast galaxies evolved in the early universe. Astronomers have detected oxygen in the light from the galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0, the most dista… [+5268 chars] Comments (0) An Underwater Volcano Off The US Coast Is Set To Erupt in 2025, Raising Excitement And Worry - IFLScience Posted at 2025-08-17 05:15:52 A submarine volcano off the coast of the Pacific Northwest of the US is set to blow in 2025. Seamounts like this are providing scientists with the perfect opportunity to study the evolution of early … [+5031 chars] Comments (0) Astronomers discover an 'interstellar tunnel' that connects our solar system to other stars - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-17 05:15:35 Space can surprise even those who spend their lives studying it. People often think of our solar system as just a few planets and a bunch of empty space. Yet new observations suggest we have been l… [+5958 chars] Comments (0) 10-Million-Year-Old Fossils in Turkey Challenge What We Thought We Knew About Mammal Evolution - Indian Defence Review Posted at 2025-08-17 05:15:17 A groundbreaking study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has redefined the evolutionary timeline of mammals and possibly early human ancestors. Thanks to the precise ap… [+5951 chars] Comments (0) NASA’s acting chief calls for the end of Earth science at the space agency - Ars Technica Posted at 2025-08-17 05:14:59 Comments (0) San Andreas fault could unleash an earthquake unlike any seen before, study of deadly Myanmar quake suggests - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-17 05:14:41 Faults like San Andreas don't necessarily repeat past behavior, which means the next big earthquake in California has the potential to be larger than any seen before, a new study suggests. The fresh… [+3923 chars] Comments (0) Scientists Discover 'Deceptively Cute' Prehistoric Species That Looked Like a Pokémon - IGN Posted at 2025-08-17 05:13:35 Scientists have identified a new species of ancient whale with cartoonish bulging eyes that they say would have made it look like a Pokémon. A precursor to today's modern whale species, the 25 milli… [+2279 chars] Comments (0) My Mother-in-Law Thinks My Daughter Is “Hopelessly Ugly.” She Won’t Stop Trying to Change Her. - Slate Posted at 2025-08-17 05:11:18 Care and Feeding is Slates parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My daughter, Fiona is 12 and not a girly girl. Shes not unattractive… [+5907 chars] Comments (0) Giant, cosmic 'Eye of Sauron' snapped staring directly at us in stunning 15-year time-lapse photo - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-17 05:10:57 The new image, dubbed the "Eye of Sauron," shows the complex magnetic field of a high-energy jet being shot directly at Earth by a distant blazar. (Image credit: Y.Y. Kovalev et al.) Astronomers hav… [+4905 chars] Comments (0) X-ray telescope finds something unexpected with the 'heartbeat black hole' - Space Posted at 2025-08-17 05:10:31 A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave. Observations of IGR J17091-3624 — a black hole in a binary system roughly 28,000 light-y… [+2482 chars] Comments (0) Miss the Perseids meteor shower peak? There's still time to watch. Here's how and when - Akron Beacon Journal Posted at 2025-08-17 05:09:44 Rural areas with dark skies offer the best viewing opportunities, away from city lights. Ohio residents can visit designated dark sky parks like Geauga Observatory Park and Fry Family… [+4828 chars] Comments (0) Physicists solve 90-year-old puzzle of quantum damped harmonic oscillators - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-17 05:08:49 A plucked guitar string can vibrate for seconds before falling silent. A playground swing, emptied of its passenger, will gradually come to rest. These are what physicists call "damped harmonic oscil… [+5297 chars] Comments (0) Giant Radar Antenna Reflector on NASA-ISRO Satellite in Full ‘Bloom’ - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) (.gov) Posted at 2025-08-17 05:08:30 The mission carries the most sophisticated radar systems ever launched as part of a NASA mission. In a first, the satellite combines two synthetic aperture radar (SAR) systems: an L-band system that … [+1631 chars] Comments (0) NASA wants new spacecraft to fly to hard-to-reach orbits around Earth and in deep space - Space Posted at 2025-08-17 05:08:12 NASA is asking six companies to help the agency move spacecraft between difficult-to-reach orbits. The agency recently awarded a total of $1.4 million to the group, which includes companies like Blu… [+3813 chars] Comments (0) This tiny animal could help humans colonize Mars - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-17 05:07:54 If humans ever leave Earth to colonize other planets, they will need companions that are incredibly resilient and able to shrug off the lethal conditions found in outer space. Tiny animals called tar… [+5888 chars] Comments (0) New Species Of Early Human Lived Alongside The Oldest Known Homo Over 2.6 Million Years Ago - IFLScience Posted at 2025-08-17 05:07:36 Fossilized teeth discovered in Ethiopia have revealed a new-to-science species of Australopithecus, a genus of early hominins that lived from the Pliocene to the Early Pleistocene. Not only does it a… [+2665 chars] Comments (0) Mysterious Denisovan interbreeding shaped the humans we are today - ScienceDaily Posted at 2025-08-16 05:12:46 Researchers think that members of the most recently identified “hominin” group (the Denisovans) mixed with early modern humans and passed along parts of their DNA. Evidence points to several separate… [+2819 chars] Comments (0) 115-million-year-old dinosaur tracks unearthed in Texas after devastating floods - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-16 05:12:28 Floodwater in Texas has uncovered 15 dinosaur footprints dating to 115 million years ago, researchers say. The prints were discovered in northwest Travis County by volunteers who were helping to cle… [+3114 chars] Comments (0) 131 feral cats removed from remote Japanese islands – then something exceptional happens - BBC Wildlife Magazine Posted at 2025-08-16 05:12:09 The red-headed wood pigeon, found only on Japans remote Ogasawara Islands, has staged an incredible recovery from the early 2000s, when the bird's numbers fell to fewer than 80 individuals. The tur… [+4719 chars] Comments (0) Scientists Unearth 240-Million-Year-Old ‘Dragon’ Fossil in China – A Stunning Triassic Find - Indian Defence Review Posted at 2025-08-16 05:11:25 In February 2024, paleontologists from across the globe unveiled new and groundbreaking details about the Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, a marine reptile that roamed the Earth over 240 million years a… [+4442 chars] Comments (0) Astronomers in Awe of Terrifying "Eye of Sauron" That's Pointed Straight at Earth - Yahoo News Canada Posted at 2025-08-16 05:10:26 A bright galactic nucleus with a supermassive black hole that spews out cosmic radiation is pointing straight at us. Thankfully, the object, unimaginatively dubbed "PKS 1424+240," is located roughly… [+2599 chars] Comments (0) Scientists achieve first observation of phonon angular momentum in chiral crystals - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-16 05:10:08 In a new study published in Nature Physics, scientists have achieved the first experimental observation of phonon angular momentum in chiral crystals. Phonons are the quantized lattice vibrations re… [+7914 chars] Comments (0) Misunderstood “photophoresis” effect could loft metal sheets to exosphere - Ars Technica Posted at 2025-08-16 05:09:50 Comments (0) Swimming sperm appear to break Newtonian laws of physics with their tails - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-16 05:09:31 Human sperm are famously good swimmers, yet the physics of their motion has puzzled scientists for decades. Thick cervical mucus or lab-made gels should throttle any cell only fifty microns long, but… [+5077 chars] Comments (0) Ice discs slingshot across a metal surface all on their own - Ars Technica Posted at 2025-08-16 05:09:14 Comments (0) Would you board a spacecraft that takes 400 years to reach Alpha Centauri? - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-16 05:08:56 Imagine leaving Earth forever and boarding a spaceship designed to carry you and thousands of others on a one-way trip to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri — a journey that could take 400 yea… [+1213 chars] Comments (0) Scientists Just Confirmed It: A Powerful Geological Force Is Moving Beneath Earth! - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-16 05:08:39 A recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment has unveiled an extraordinary discovery: the solid rock deep beneath our feet is not as rigid as previously thought. Scientists have… [+6079 chars] Comments (0) DNA has an expiration date. But proteins are revealing secrets about our ancient ancestors we never thought possible. - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-16 05:08:20 The moment a creature dies, its DNA begins to break down. Half of it degrades every 521 years on average. By about 6.8 million years, even under ideal preservation conditions in cold, stable enviro… [+8829 chars] Comments (0) TRAPPIST-1d isn't the Earth-like planet scientists had hoped it to be, according to JWST data - Space Posted at 2025-08-16 05:08:01 There's bad news for our hopes of habitable planets existing around TRAPPIST-1, with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) finding no evidence for an Earth-like atmosphere on a third world orbiting t… [+4672 chars] Comments (0) Spotify-like AI helps discover never-before-seen supernova as greedy star attempts to eat a black hole - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-16 05:07:43 Scientists may have spotted a never-before-seen kind of supernova, after using a Spotify-like artificial intelligence (AI) to scan the skies for strange activity. The AI unearthed signs of what co… [+5062 chars] Comments (0) Chemists synthesize a new allotrope of carbon - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-16 05:07:26 In a new study led by Oxford University's Department of Chemistry, chemists have demonstrated the synthesis of a cyclocarbon that is stable enough for spectroscopic characterization in solution at ro… [+2911 chars] Comments (0) NASA's new sun-studying mission 'PUNCH' attains its final form in Earth orbit - Space Posted at 2025-08-16 05:07:08 On Wednesday (Aug. 13), NASA announced that the four satellites of its exciting new sun-studying mission, PUNCH, have successfully reached their stations in orbit around our planet. They all lie alon… [+3936 chars] Comments (0) No One Knew Why This Owl Wouldn't Fly — Until Rescuers Looked Into His Eyes - The Dodo Posted at 2025-08-16 05:06:50 A few weeks ago, New England Wildlife Center (NEWC) received a call for help that immediately raised concerns. The caller reported finding a small owl on the side of a busy road in Harwich, Massachus… [+2719 chars] Comments (0) Scientists 'Hack' Fruit Fly Romance By Transferring Vomit-Based Courtship Between Species - Study Finds Posted at 2025-08-16 05:06:32 Drosophila subobscura males regurgitate food and offer it as a gift to females during courtship. (Credit: Tanaka et al., 2025) Male Drosophila subobscura woo females with a regurgitated nupt… [+7173 chars] Comments (0) Climate pollution is making GPS and communications satellites even more vulnerable to solar storms - CNN Posted at 2025-08-16 05:06:14 Satellites, including those used for GPS and communications, will face greater risks in coming decades during solar-triggered geomagnetic storms because of the effect climate pollution has on Earths … [+3949 chars] Comments (0) This prehistoric whale had razor teeth, bulging eyes and a face only evolution could love - AP News Posted at 2025-08-16 05:05:57 WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were tiny, weird and feral. A chance discovery of a 25 million-year-old fossil on an … [+4449 chars] Comments (0) Signs of recent life on Mars could be detected using new simple test - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-15 05:12:23 A Ph.D. student and his supervisor have developed a simple way to test for active life on Mars and other planets using equipment already on the Mars Curiosity rover and planned for future use on the … [+4285 chars] Comments (0) These tiny flyers levitate on the Sun’s heat alone - Nature Posted at 2025-08-15 05:12:04 Comments (0) Perseid meteor shower 2025: Where and when you can still watch the year's brightest shower before it ends next week - yahoo.com Posted at 2025-08-15 05:11:47 Although the Perseid meteor shower peaked late Tuesday night into early Wednesday morning, stargazers can still catch a glimpse of the meteors until Aug. 23. The Perseid shower, which has been activ… [+2021 chars] Comments (0) Multiple oestradiol functions inhibit ferroptosis and acute kidney injury - Nature Posted at 2025-08-15 05:11:29 Comments (0) The genomic origin of the unique chaetognath body plan - Nature Posted at 2025-08-15 05:11:11 Comments (0) NASA's Perseverance rover spies mysterious 'helmet' on Mars (photo) - yahoo.com Posted at 2025-08-15 05:10:53 Comments (0) Scientists Found Air Trapped Inside A Rock For 815 Million Years And Set It Free - IFLScience Posted at 2025-08-15 05:10:34 Some of the oldest air ever studied by scientists was trapped inside rock over 800 million years ago. Cracking the rock open and allowing the air to escape, the team who found it got a pretty astonis… [+3485 chars] Comments (0) New discoveries of Australopithecus and Homo from Ledi-Geraru, Ethiopia - Nature Posted at 2025-08-15 05:10:17 Comments (0) AI helps astronomers make a potentially major find — an exploding star being attacked by a black hole - Space Posted at 2025-08-15 05:09:59 Astronomers have observed what may be the first known case of a massive star exploding while interacting with a black hole, marking a discovery that could reveal an entirely new class of stellar expl… [+3982 chars] Comments (0) After first operational launch, here’s the next big test for ULA’s Vulcan rocket - Ars Technica Posted at 2025-08-15 05:09:41 Comments (0) The shape of the universe revealed through algebraic geometry - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-15 05:09:22 How can the behavior of elementary particles and the structure of the entire universe be described using the same mathematical concepts? This question is at the heart of recent work by the mathematic… [+7077 chars] Comments (0) Don't throw away those cannabis leaves—they're packed with rare compounds - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-15 05:09:05 Analytical chemists from Stellenbosch University (SU) have provided the first evidence of a rare class of phenolics, called flavoalkaloids, in cannabis leaves. Phenolic compounds, especially flavono… [+3640 chars] Comments (0) A Dark Mirror Universe May Be Hiding Right Next Door, Scientists Say - Yahoo News Canada Posted at 2025-08-15 05:08:46 Heres what youll learn when you read this story: We have not been able to detect dark matter yet, even though there are many aspects of the universe that suggest the existence of invisible m… [+4549 chars] Comments (0) Colossal black hole 36 billion times the mass of our sun is one of the largest ever seen in the universe - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-15 05:08:28 The massive "Cosmic Horseshoe " galaxy system likely hosts a colossal black hole measuring 36 billion times the mass of our sun — one of the largest ever seen in the universe, a new study finds. Sc… [+3647 chars] Comments (0) Strange light observed in Iowa night skies, astronomer explains why - KCRG Posted at 2025-08-15 05:08:09 CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) - A strange light was observed in Iowa night skies Tuesday. One astronomer provided an explanation for the light on X. Jonathan McDowell shared his expertise, writing in hi… [+387 chars] Comments (0) The Bizarre Biological Trick That Makes These Teeth Tougher Than Steel - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-15 05:07:50 At first glance, chitons look like any other mollusk: round, bashful creatures creeping across seashore rocks. Flip one over, however, and youll notice rows of freakishly sharp, polished teethindestr… [+2815 chars] Comments (0) NASA's Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft fuels up and moves closer to launch - Space Posted at 2025-08-15 05:07:32 The Orion spacecraft flying humanity's next crewed mission to the moon has completed propellant loading and is headed to the next phase of launch preparations. Teams at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (… [+3482 chars] Comments (0) Genomics pioneer George Church earns first retraction for anti-aging gene therapy paper - Retraction Watch Posted at 2025-08-15 05:07:14 George Church A paper coauthored by geneticist George Church has been retracted following an internal review at a university where several coauthors are based. The article appeared in the Proceedin… [+6913 chars] Comments (0) Victoria, Alta Vista men arrested for allegedly battering juveniles - Hays Post Posted at 2025-08-15 05:06:55 Courtesy of Pixabay By TONY GUERREROHays Post Two men allegedly started a parking lot fight with three young people from Hays. Hays Deputy Police Chief Tim Greenwood said 26-year-old Chase Hartman… [+605 chars] Comments (0) It's Official: 'Ghost Particle' That Smashed Into Earth Breaks Records - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-15 05:06:34 The verdict is in. The detection of a cosmic neutrino that smashed into Earth with an unprecedented energy level is not a glitch or an error, but a real detection of a real particle. In February 202… [+5351 chars] Comments (0) "It’s Practically Next Door": James Webb Telescope Detects Possible New Exoplanet Only 4 Light-Years From Earth, Stirring Scientific Excitement - Rude Baguette Posted at 2025-08-14 05:16:22 IN A NUTSHELL The James Webb Space Telescope may have discovered a new exoplanet orbiting Alpha Centauri A. The potential planet is about 10,000 time… [+5293 chars] Comments (0) Meet Chrysalis, The Generational Ship Designed To Take Humans On A 400-Year Trip To Alpha Centauri - IFLScience Posted at 2025-08-14 05:16:00 For beings of our size and lifespans, space is pretty big. So big, in fact, that to make it to our nearest star system you would need to factor in the fairly sizeable downside that you will die of ol… [+6249 chars] Comments (0) New Fossil Discovery in Africa Unveils Hidden Secrets About Earth’s Largest Mass Extinction - Indian Defence Review Posted at 2025-08-14 05:15:39 In a groundbreaking study published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, an international team of paleontologists has uncovered a rich treasure trove of Permian fossils from southern Africa. Th… [+5027 chars] Comments (0) New Pluto mission could uncover dwarf planet's hidden ocean — if the 'queen of the underworld' gets to fly - Space Posted at 2025-08-14 05:15:17 When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft sped by Pluto in 2015, it revealed an incredible world of ice and haze carved by various geological processes — hinting that an ocean may have played a role in the… [+11317 chars] Comments (0) The Arctic’s Shifting Foundations Could Unleash Catastrophic Global Climate Fallout - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-14 05:14:55 In a recent study published in Nature Climate Change, scientists explored the changing dynamics of the Antarctic phytoplankton communities over a span of nearly three decades. The comprehensive resea… [+5254 chars] Comments (0) Astronomers spot something totally new in space - Chron Posted at 2025-08-14 05:14:34 This image shows the spiral NGC 4945 galaxy, where Punctum is located.  ESO Astronomers have detected an unusually powerful and compact object in a nearby galaxy, one so bright and unique that it m… [+2607 chars] Comments (0) Paperclip-sized spacecraft could visit a nearby black hole in the next century, study claims - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-14 05:14:12 An astrophysicist has made an ambitious proposal for how humanity could probe the extreme physics of black holes — by sending a spaceship no bigger than a paperclip to our nearest one. The spacecraf… [+3082 chars] Comments (0) A ‘black moon’ is coming this summer. Here’s when and what that means - OregonLive.com Posted at 2025-08-14 05:13:49 Weve all been enjoying these bright full moons of summer, but a black moon is now on the rise. Not an official astronomical term, a black moon refers to the second new moon in a single calendar mon… [+1468 chars] Comments (0) Couples who bond over this nasty habit are happier, study reveals: ‘Partners are on the same team’ - yahoo.com Posted at 2025-08-14 05:13:27 Did you hear? Couples that gossip together stay together. A new study from UC Riverside, titled Spill the Tea, Honey: Gossiping Predicts Well-Being in Same- and Different-Gender Couples, revealed th… [+4616 chars] Comments (0) James Webb telescope spots earliest black hole in the known universe, looking 'as far back as you can practically go' - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-14 05:13:06 Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have identified the earliest black hole found thus far, dating back to more than 13 billion years ago. The black hole and its home galaxy, to… [+3308 chars] Comments (0) Astronomers spot the 'Eye of Sauron' in deep space - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-14 05:12:44 A stunning new image of a cosmic jet has helped astronomers unlock the mystery behind the unusually bright emission of high-energy gamma rays and neutrinos from a peculiar celestial object. The sourc… [+4244 chars] Comments (0) What exactly is “life?” Astrobiologists still have more questions than answers - Big Think Posted at 2025-08-14 05:12:23 Comments (0) 'Rogue waves' can be 65 feet tall, but they aren't 'freak occurrences,' data from North Sea reveals - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-14 05:12:02 Rogue waves have captivated the attention of both seafarers and scientists for decades. These are giant, isolated waves that appear suddenly in the open ocean . These puzzling giants are brief,… [+7601 chars] Comments (0) Astronaut catches gigantic jet on camera - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-14 05:11:41 On July 3, 2025, NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers captured a stunning photo of an event originally thought to be a sprite. However, "Nichole Ayers caught a rare and spectacular form of a TLE [Transient … [+2277 chars] Comments (0) James Webb Telescope Shocks Astronomers As "Galaxies Sleep In Wrong Era" With Discovery Of Rare ‘Sleeping Beauty’ Systems From Universe’s Youth - Rude Baguette Posted at 2025-08-14 05:11:19 IN A NUTSHELL The James Webb Space Telescope discovers over a dozen dormant galaxies in the early universe. Supermassive black holes and neighboring g… [+5783 chars] Comments (0) Scientists Discover What Appears to Be the Largest Black Hole in the Universe, So Heavy That It Completely Bends the Light Around It Into a Giant Ring - yahoo.com Posted at 2025-08-14 05:10:58 Astronomers have discovered what could be the largest black hole ever detected. With a mass of 36 billion times that of our Sun, its gravity is so powerful that it bends the light of an entire galaxy… [+4436 chars] Comments (0) Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS Seen in Stunning New Hubble Image - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-14 05:10:36 Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed 3I/ATLAS, only the third known object from outside our Solar System to visit our neighborhood. This interstellar interloper is putting on qu… [+3759 chars] Comments (0) Perseid Meteor Shower: Peak Time, Locations to See Shower Tonight - Newsweek Posted at 2025-08-14 05:10:15 One of the most anticipated celestial events of the year is set to dazzle skywatchers as the Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak on the night of August 12 into the early hours of August 13. Known … [+16336 chars] Comments (0) United Launch Alliance's new Vulcan rocket blasts off on first Space Force-sanctioned flight - CBS News Posted at 2025-08-14 05:09:54 United Launch Alliance fired off its first operational Vulcan rocket Tuesday, boosting two military satellites into space in the first U.S. Space Force-sanctioned flight of a new launcher that eventu… [+6649 chars] Comments (0) Mars orbiter looks deep into chasms and valleys on the Martian surface - Space Posted at 2025-08-13 05:18:26 For more than 20 years, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express orbiter has been imaging the surface of the Red Planet. One region, in particular, continues to fascinate the Mars Express team,… [+2464 chars] Comments (0) The DNA of Great White Sharks Defies Explanation. Here's Why. - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-13 05:18:04 The genes of great white sharks defy scientific explanation. An animal's genome can be deeply revealing, but ever since researchers started decoding great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) DNA mo… [+4062 chars] Comments (0) How to instantly be better at things - Big Think Posted at 2025-08-13 05:17:43 Comments (0) 3I/ATLAS Is Fastest Interstellar Comet Ever Recorded, Clocking 130,000 MPH, NASA Reports - IFLScience Posted at 2025-08-13 05:17:22 Comet 3I/ATLAS has been observed by the Hubble Space Telescope, which delivered new insights into this third interstellar visitor. The orbital observatory has refined the estimates about the size of … [+3249 chars] Comments (0) Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of alkylidenecyclopropanes - Nature Posted at 2025-08-13 05:17:01 Comments (0) NASA's Roman Space Telescope gets its 'extremely strong sunblock' installed - Space Posted at 2025-08-13 05:16:39 In a major step forward for one of NASA's most anticipated space observatories, engineers at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have successfully installed two sunshields on the … [+3548 chars] Comments (0) Amazon's Starlink Competitor Tops 100 Satellites. What Project Kuiper Means For Amazon Stock. - Investor's Business Daily Posted at 2025-08-13 05:16:17 Amazon (AMZN) launched another batch of satellites for its Project Kuiper internet service initiative Monday, reaching more than 100 satellites total. Amazon stock was slightly lower. The launch fro… [+4125 chars] Comments (0) Ultra-metal-poor star discovered in Milky Way's halo - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-13 05:15:55 By analyzing the data from ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers from the University of Chicago, Illinois and elsewhere, have identified a new ultra-metal-poor star. The newfound star, designated GDR3_52… [+3590 chars] Comments (0) NASA Leadership Announcement: International, Interagency Relations - NASA Watch Posted at 2025-08-13 05:15:33 Keith’s note:First of all: Karen Feldstein: thank you for the decades service you provided NASA and your support not only of NASA but of space exploration by/for everyone – everywhere . According to… [+2032 chars] Comments (0) Scientists say they cruised the ocean in a deep-sea submersible and came across an undiscovered ecosystem - CNN Posted at 2025-08-13 05:14:55 Marine researchers exploring extreme depths say they have discovered an astonishing deep-sea ecosystem of chemosynthetic life thats fueled by gases escaping from fractures in the ocean bed. The exped… [+5935 chars] Comments (0) James Webb telescope reveals 'Sleeping Beauty' galaxies in the early universe — snoozing where they weren't supposed to exist - Space Posted at 2025-08-13 05:13:52 This story was provided by Live Science, a sister site of Space.com. Astronomers have discovered over a dozen "dormant" galaxies that paused their star formation within the first billion years after… [+5622 chars] Comments (0) 'Space hurricane' caught raging over North Pole during one of the sun's quietest days - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-13 05:13:31 A rare hurricane that raged high above Earth's North Pole in 2014 packed a surprising punch, and may be even stranger than scientists first thought. The phenomenon, called a "space hurricane," unlea… [+3650 chars] Comments (0) A Never-Before-Seen 95-Million-Year-Old Plant-Eating Dinosaur Finally Reveals Itself - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-13 05:13:09 In Argentinas Patagonia, researchers have uncovered a previously unknown dinosaur species that lived approximately 95 million years ago. Named Astigmasaura genuflexa, this massive plant-eating saurop… [+3264 chars] Comments (0) Perseids to peak overnight, followed by bright Jupiter and Venus - WTOP Posted at 2025-08-13 05:12:48 It’s a busy time in the sky with the bright waning gibbous moon competing with the predicted overnight peak of the Perseid Meteor Shower, followed by bright Jupiter and Venus at their closest on the … [+1905 chars] Comments (0) Cosmic Explosion Wiped Out Ancient Advanced Civilization, Scientists Say - GreekReporter.com Posted at 2025-08-13 05:12:27 A cosmic blast may have wiped out a lost civilization 12,800 years ago. Credit: Kevin Gill / CC BY 2.0 A powerful cosmic explosion may have wiped out an early, advanced human civilization around 12,… [+3395 chars] Comments (0) Meteorite that punched a hole through Georgia roof may be older than Earth itself - Space Posted at 2025-08-13 05:12:03 University of Georgia researcher Scott Harris holds a chunk of the McDonough Meteorite (Image credit: University of Georgia) A meteorite that survived atmospheric entry and smashed through the roof … [+2624 chars] Comments (0) Scientists Design Huge Spacecraft That Could Carry 2,400 Colonists to Alpha Centauri - Futurism Posted at 2025-08-13 05:11:40 A team of engineers has come up with designs of a 36-mile spacecraft, dubbed Chrysalis, designed to carry up to 2,400 passengers to Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our own. As first spott… [+3113 chars] Comments (0) Northern Lights Forecast: 10 States Could Experience Aurora Borealis Monday Night - Forbes Posted at 2025-08-13 05:11:19 The majority of states along the U.S.-Canada border could have a shot at seeing the northern lights Monday night, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which issued a simi… [+2229 chars] Comments (0) What is tonight's moon phase? Here's what to look for on Aug. 11 - USA Today Posted at 2025-08-13 05:10:55 During such a busy stretch for stargazing, it can be hard to keep track of all thats happening in the solar system, including what we can see from our backyards. There are meteor showers, different … [+3474 chars] Comments (0) Scientists discover surprising cause of massive flood that unleashed more than 20 billion gallons of water: 'It was so unexpected' - yahoo.com Posted at 2025-08-13 05:10:32 Scientists were left perplexed by the impact of an undetected flood in Greenland that occurred over a decade ago. The findings are raising as many questions as answers. What's happening? Unknown to… [+2465 chars] Comments (0) "Five Times Deeper Than Ever": MIT’s Light-Triggered Sound Imaging Reveals Brain Structures Without Dyes or Genetic Modifications - Rude Baguette Posted at 2025-08-12 05:21:15 IN A NUTSHELL Researchers at MIT have developed a groundbreaking imaging system using light-triggered sound waves to see deeper into the brain. The n… [+5253 chars] Comments (0) When will Voyager 1 go silent and what are NASA’s plans for its final days? - WION Posted at 2025-08-12 05:20:52 Communication depends on Voyagers 3.7-metre high-gain antenna transmitting narrow, low-power X-band radio signals. Those signals are captured by NASAs Deep Space Network, three arrays of huge dishes … [+261 chars] Comments (0) A giant virus wags its tail - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-12 05:20:31 University of Hawai'i at Mnoa oceanographers have identified PelV-1, a dinoflagellate-infecting giant virus whose micron-length tail reaches 2.3 µm, stretching current notions of viral architecture. … [+2714 chars] Comments (0) 'Ice cube' clouds discovered at the galaxy's center shouldn't exist — and they hint at a recent black hole explosion - Space Posted at 2025-08-12 05:20:10 Two of the strangest structures in the galaxy just got even stranger. Ballooning above and below the Milky Way's center like a massive hourglass, the mysterious Fermi bubbles loom large over our gal… [+4153 chars] Comments (0) Bad weather for Falcon 9 booster recovery prevents launch of Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellites - Spaceflight Now Posted at 2025-08-12 05:19:49 Poor weather in the booster recovery zone caused a scrub of the KF-02 mission, preventing the launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket for a fourth time in as many days. Image: SpaceX via livestream Upd… [+4442 chars] Comments (0) Cosmonaut instructed to immediately leave area as he discovers 'blob' growing outside International Space Station - supercarblondie.com Posted at 2025-08-12 05:19:27 A Russian cosmonaut and his colleague venturing outside the International Space Station (ISS) on a spacewalk were told to immediately leave the area after finding a blob in space. Astronauts are tra… [+1594 chars] Comments (0) 'Building cities on the Moon': Chinese scientists develop machine to turn lunar dust into bricks - WION Posted at 2025-08-12 05:19:05 The device operates like a 3D printer but replaces conventional heat sources with concentrated solar energy. A parabolic reflector gathers sunlight and channels it through fibre optic bundles, intens… [+335 chars] Comments (0) Warning issued for an invasive 'Frankenstein' hybrid insect that harms plants and humans - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-12 05:18:44 A new hybrid fire ant is marching across the United States, and scientists say it can handle nearly any weather conditions or terrain that it encounters in the country. Dubbed the “Frankenstein ant”… [+5422 chars] Comments (0) Light pollution is encroaching on observatories around the globe – making it harder for astronomers to study the cosmos - Space Posted at 2025-08-12 05:18:22 This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Outdoor lighting for buildings, roads and adve… [+7703 chars] Comments (0) Researchers have discovered how to rewind time in massive scientific breakthrough - Dexerto Posted at 2025-08-12 05:18:02 A massive breakthrough in quantum mechanics has been made. Researchers in Austria have discovered how to reverse the flow of time for a single particle within a quantum system, effectively bending th… [+4598 chars] Comments (0) A Bridge Of Lost Stars Betrays Two Giant Galaxies In The Midst Of Destruction - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-12 05:17:41 Astronomers have captured the first optical evidence of a million-light-year-long bridge of stars being torn from one massive galaxy and pulled into another, a rare galactic interaction occurring in … [+3318 chars] Comments (0) Fraudulent research is 'destroying trust in science' - DW Posted at 2025-08-12 05:17:20 Fraudulent scientific research is on the rise and is jeopardizing medical research, experts have warned. A new study has found that networks of bad actors work together to publish bogus research. Th… [+4539 chars] Comments (0) Scientists May Have Found the Ultimate Dark Matter Detector - SciTechDaily Posted at 2025-08-12 05:16:58 Researchers are developing a thorium-229 nuclear clock so sensitive it could detect the faint, wave-like effects of dark matter, potentially solving one of physics’ greatest mysteries. Credit: SciTec… [+8625 chars] Comments (0) The Dead Sea's 'Salt Giants' Reveal Deep Secrets About Earth's Past - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-12 05:16:38 The large-scale deposits of salt around the Dead Sea, known as salt giants, are built up as the lake's highly saline water evaporates, and a new study of their formation has revealed some of the secr… [+3463 chars] Comments (0) Scientists discover a new species of vegetarian piranha with human-like teeth - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-12 05:16:15 Myloplus sauron, a newly described Amazonian fish, looks like trouble at first glance. Its round silver body wears a stark black stripe that tapers toward the belly, a pattern that recalls the fiery … [+4756 chars] Comments (0) Perseid meteor shower nears its 2025 peak, but viewing might be 'hampered' - USA Today Posted at 2025-08-12 05:15:54 Its that time of year again, and the peak of whats revered as the best meteor shower of the year is approaching. The Perseid meteor shower is considered the best of the year due to how many meteors … [+3736 chars] Comments (0) ‘Sturgeon moon’ rises over Seattle, and it’s quite the catch - The Seattle Times Posted at 2025-08-12 05:15:33 Theres something fishy about the name of Seattle’s most recent lunar event. Known as a “sturgeon moon,” the August full moon Saturday evening bathed the city in abundant evening light.  A full moon … [+1370 chars] Comments (0) Meteorite that tore through southeastern US skies this summer determined to be older than Earth itself, researchers say - CNN Posted at 2025-08-12 05:15:12 A meteorite that tore through the sky in June shaking the Southeast with a sonic boom is now believed to be 4.56 billion years old, according to researchers who studied it following its crash landing… [+4294 chars] Comments (0) 36 Billion Suns: Record Black Hole Discovery Could Be as Big as They Get - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-12 05:14:49 A black hole deep in the cosmos, some 5 billion light-years away, could be the most massive ever found. The galaxy SDSS J1148+1930 harbors a behemoth, around 36.3 billion times the mass of our Sun, … [+4689 chars] Comments (0) Ancient viral DNA may play a key role in early human development, new study suggests - CNN Posted at 2025-08-11 05:25:22 The human genome is made up of 23 pairs of chromosomes, the biological blueprints that make humans well, human. But it turns out that some of our DNA about 8% are the remnants of ancient viruses that… [+6538 chars] Comments (0) A massive earthquake could be brewing beneath North America, study suggests - BBC Science Focus Magazine Posted at 2025-08-11 05:24:58 A hidden tectonic fault in Canadas Yukon could be gearing up to unleash a major earthquake of at least magnitude 7.5, according to a new study. The Tintina fault, which runs from northeastern Britis… [+3818 chars] Comments (0) IBM and Moderna have simulated the longest mRNA pattern without AI — they used a quantum computer instead - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-11 05:24:36 Researchers at IBM and Moderna have successfully used a quantum simulation algorithm to predict the complex secondary protein structure of a 60-nucleotide-long mRNA sequence, the longest ever simul… [+4275 chars] Comments (0) Meet The 'Genital King' Tarantula And Its Record-Breaking Sexual Organ - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-11 05:24:00 Four new species of tarantula have been discovered and if they knew the name they were going to get, they might have presented themselves sooner. The males are so well-endowed that scientists essent… [+2116 chars] Comments (0) NASA's Space Probe Finds Evidence Of A "Helicity Barrier" In The Sun's 2 Million Kelvin Atmosphere - IFLScience Posted at 2025-08-11 05:22:55 A study analyzing data from NASAs Parker Solar Probe has uncovered evidence of a helicity barrier in the Suns atmosphere.In 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe on a trajectory that would event… [+5026 chars] Comments (0) A fiery meteor that punched through a Georgia home's roof is older than Earth, a scientist says - AccessWDUN Posted at 2025-08-11 05:22:34 ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — A meteorite that punched a hole i n a Georgia homeowner’s roof after blazing across the sky in a fiery streak is older than the Earth itself, according to scientist who examined fr… [+1152 chars] Comments (0) This Machine Turns Moon Dust Into Bricks And Paves The Way For Cities On The Moon - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-11 05:22:09 Chinese scientists have unveiled a solar-powered 3D printing device that transforms lunar regolith into durable bricks, potentially changing how humans will build on the Moon. The breakthrough, detai… [+3910 chars] Comments (0) Robot Crab Meets Terrible Fate When Its True Nature Is Discovered by Real Crab - Futurism Posted at 2025-08-11 05:21:46 Scientists apparently underestimated the aggression of itty-bitty male fiddler crabs when they deployed a friendly robot version during mating season. In a paper published in the journal Proceedings… [+2513 chars] Comments (0) NASA’s Satellites Kept Spotting a Strange Glow Near Antarctica — Now We Know What’s Hiding There - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-11 05:21:19 For over two decades, scientists have puzzled over bright, glowing patches of water in the Southern Ocean visible in satellite imagery. These unusual light reflections, concentrated in remote and icy… [+5158 chars] Comments (0) Congressperson Urges NASA to Send Its Jupiter Probe Chasing in Pursuit of the Weird Visitor Coming From Interstellar Space - Futurism Posted at 2025-08-11 05:20:58 Earlier this year, astronomers spotted a mysterious interstellar object, dubbed 3I/ATLAS, hurtling through the solar system at a blistering speed. It's only the third confirmed interstellar object t… [+4726 chars] Comments (0) New York to Los Angeles in 3 hours? Executive order could make it possible by 2027, reopening the door for commercial supersonic flight - Space Posted at 2025-08-11 05:20:35 Supersonic commercial travel could soon be coming to the U.S. following a new executive order lifting a 52-year ban on overland commercial supersonic flights. While supersonic flights could cross th… [+2408 chars] Comments (0) 4 space station fliers return to Earth with Pacific Ocean splashdown - CBS News Posted at 2025-08-11 05:20:10 Two NASA astronauts, a Japanese flier and a Russian cosmonaut plunged back to Earth on Saturday, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, west of San Diego, to wrap up a five-month mission to spac… [+3387 chars] Comments (0) Scientists say they have solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-11 05:19:47 Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea starsoften known as starfishtyp… [+4317 chars] Comments (0) Scientists Discover an Organism That Defies All Rules of Life! - Indian Defence Review Posted at 2025-08-11 05:19:23 In a groundbreaking study published in BioRxiv, researchers have unveiled a mysterious microbe that forces us to rethink what it means to be alive. The study, led by Ryo Harada and his colleagues, in… [+4886 chars] Comments (0) Wild New Theory Suggests Gravitational Waves Shaped The Universe - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-11 05:19:00 Just as ocean waves shape our shores, ripples in space-time may have once set the Universe on an evolutionary path that led to the cosmos as we see it today. A new theory suggests gravitational wave… [+3865 chars] Comments (0) SpaceX pushes back launch, now aiming for Monday evening from Vandenberg - KSBY News Posted at 2025-08-11 05:18:37 SpaceX is planning a launch out of Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday evening, pushing back its original launch target of Saturday evening. Base officials say the launch window for the Falcon 9 … [+443 chars] Comments (0) Rare 115-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Footprints Discovered in Texas After Flooding Reveals Hidden Fossils - Indian Defence Review Posted at 2025-08-11 05:18:16 In a remarkable discovery following recent flooding, ancient dinosaur footprints that had been hidden beneath layers of Texas soil for millions of years were revealed. According to a report from ABC … [+4419 chars] Comments (0) NASA Rovers Keep Getting Stuck, And We Finally Know Why - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-11 05:17:52 Although humanity is getting better at sending robotic probes out into the Solar System to explore the places no human can tread, we're still very much on a learning curve. The first extraterrestria… [+2826 chars] Comments (0) Full moon dazzles in the night sky: See photos of 2025 Sturgeon Moon - USA Today Posted at 2025-08-11 05:17:28 This week marked the arrival of the Sturgeon Moon, a moon rising that wows stargazing enthusiasts in the Northern Hemisphere each year. Named after a massive fish that traces back 136 million years … [+971 chars] Comments (0) First-Ever Footage Shows Seabirds Catching Flying Fish Mid-Air - PetaPixel Posted at 2025-08-10 05:14:44 A red-footed booby hones in on a flying fish. Scientists attached minuscule cameras to two red-footed boobies, which recorded footage of the seabirds hunting a shoal of flying fish in the Indian Oce… [+2298 chars] Comments (0) Northern Lights Update: 15 States Might See Aurora Borealis Friday Night - Forbes Posted at 2025-08-10 05:14:23 A recent coronal mass ejection is expected to disrupt Earths magnetic field once again Friday night, potentially bringing the northern lights to more than a dozen states in the northern U.S., accordi… [+2504 chars] Comments (0) Scientists may finally know why the first stars in the universe left no trace - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-10 05:14:03 The first stars in the universe may have been much smaller than we thought, new research hints — possibly explaining why it's so hard to find evidence they ever existed. According to the new researc… [+4901 chars] Comments (0) A mysterious substance on Mars might be an undiscovered mineral - Space Posted at 2025-08-10 05:12:52 One way scientists study planets is by looking at the minerals on their surfaces. They can tell us a lot about how worlds form. Scientists have been looking at unusual layers of iron sulfates on Mar… [+2465 chars] Comments (0) ‘It’s a Mess’: A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory’s 100th Birthday Party - Quanta Magazine Posted at 2025-08-10 05:12:31 Those Who Dont Know The evening before Fuchs and I had lunch, he had given the first official physics talk of the conference, a lightning review of QBism and a report on some conjectures in number t… [+8143 chars] Comments (0) There’s a hot rock blob under New Hampshire. It could be why the Appalachian Mountains are standing tall - CNN Posted at 2025-08-10 05:12:11 Theres a giant blob of incredibly hot rock beneath New Hampshire and it may be part of the reason the Appalachian Mountains are still standing tall, according to new research. It has, however, been s… [+8541 chars] Comments (0) NASA Releases Closest Ever Images Of The Sun, Snapped As Probe Travels Through Its Atmosphere - IFLScience Posted at 2025-08-10 05:11:52 NASA had a special Christmas gift last year. On December 24, the Parker Solar Probe reached the closest it will ever get to the Sun. As it flew just 6.1 million kilometers (3.8 million miles) from it… [+2888 chars] Comments (0) "We Have No Idea": Decades-Old Mystery About Great White Sharks Just Got Even Stranger - IFLScience Posted at 2025-08-10 05:11:35 Great white sharks are magnificent creatures and an icon among sea predators. But despite their fame across the world, inspiring stories, books, films, games, and more, theres still a great deal we d… [+7716 chars] Comments (0) NASA's Hubble telescope reveals most detailed photos of interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS to date - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-10 05:11:17 NASA has revealed the most detailed images yet taken of comet 3I/ATLAS, the interstellar visitor that is currently barreling its way through our solar system. The images, taken by NASA's Hubble Spac… [+2915 chars] Comments (0) What would Mars look like under an Earth-like blue sky? NASA's Perseverance rover just showed us - Space Posted at 2025-08-10 05:10:59 NASA's Perseverance Mars rover continues to beam home incredible sights from the Red Planet surface. This week, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) released an enhanced-color mosaic of 96 separat… [+4176 chars] Comments (0) A black hole 300 million times bigger than the sun may be a portal to universe's first days, scientists say - NBC News Posted at 2025-08-10 05:10:41 With spectroscopy, astronomers can look for telltale signs of stars, galaxies and other celestial objects. Black holes gobble up dust and matter around them, compressing and heating the material as i… [+1754 chars] Comments (0) NASA finds coral-shaped rock on Mars that could be billions of years old - ABC News Posted at 2025-08-10 05:10:08 Comments (0) August’s full sturgeon moon to dazzle with yellow-orange color - WTOP Posted at 2025-08-10 05:09:03 The rising moon may display some lovely yellow-orange color due to being low on the horizon and from a bit of haze from wildfire smoke coming from Canada. WTOPs weather forecast looks good for Friday… [+1290 chars] Comments (0) Heaviest Black Hole Ever Found Pushes Limit of What’s Cosmologically Possible - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-10 05:08:45 The largest black hole ever detected is 36 billion times the mass of our Sun. It exists near the upper limit predicted by our cosmological models, leaving astronomers with burning questions surroundi… [+4224 chars] Comments (0) Spacecraft headed to DART asteroid crash site images 2 faint space rocks to boost planetary defense tactics - Space Posted at 2025-08-10 05:08:27 The Hera mission to follow-up on the aftermath of NASA's DART asteroid crash has caught sight of two other asteroids in an important test of its camera ahead of its rendezvous its main target: the do… [+5713 chars] Comments (0) Scientists Discover Sea Spiders Thriving in Total Darkness, Feeding on Methane Deep on the Ocean Floor - Indian Defence Review Posted at 2025-08-10 05:08:10 A fascinating study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) reveals a groundbreaking discovery about the feeding behavior of sea spiders in methane-rich ecosystems off the… [+7853 chars] Comments (0) Dinosaur footprints from 115 million years ago found after Texas flood - ABC News Posted at 2025-08-10 05:07:53 Comments (0) For giant carnivorous dinosaurs, big size didn’t mean a big bite - Ars Technica Posted at 2025-08-10 05:07:35 Comments (0) SpaceX's Crew-10 astronauts undock from ISS, head home to Earth (video) - Space Posted at 2025-08-10 05:07:17 SpaceX's Crew-10 astronauts headed home to Earth on Friday (Aug. 8). The Crew-10 quartet's Crew Dragon capsule, named Endurance, undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) Friday at 6:15 p.… [+2459 chars] Comments (0) Jim Lovell, commander of Apollo 13 mission, dies at 97 - ABC News Posted at 2025-08-10 05:06:59 Comments (0) NASA's Perseverance Snaps One Of Sharpest 360° Panoramas On Mars Ever Taken - IFLScience Posted at 2025-08-09 05:12:35 What a time to be alive, when you can pull a tiny computer from your pocket and gaze at a high-resolution panorama of Mars captured by a space-traveling robot.The image is a mosaic of 96 images taken… [+2462 chars] Comments (0) Tarantula Species With Penis That Dwarfs Its Body Discovered By Stunned Scientists - The Daily Beast Posted at 2025-08-09 05:12:17 Scientists have stumbled upon four new species of tarantulas whose males have such outrageously long genitals that they had to invent an entirely new genus to classify them: Satyrex, named after the … [+992 chars] Comments (0) Hubble Space Telescope takes best picture yet of the comet visiting from another solar system - AP News Posted at 2025-08-09 05:12:00 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the best picture yet of a high-speed comet visiting our solar system from another star. NASA and the European Space Agency released … [+1061 chars] Comments (0) Astronomers Discover the Earliest Black Hole Ever Confirmed - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-09 05:11:42 An international team of astronomers has identified the earliest black hole ever confirmed, an ancient behemoth that existed just 500 million years after the Big Bang. The discovery could offer new c… [+4066 chars] Comments (0) Proposed spacecraft could carry up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-09 05:11:23 Engineers have designed a spacecraft that could take up to 2,400 people on a one-way trip to Alpha Centauri, the star system closest to our own. The craft, called Chrysalis, could make the 25 trillio… [+3953 chars] Comments (0) 3,000-year-old burial of elite teen unearthed in Iran, with gold jewelry and astonishing 'scorpion' cosmetics box - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-09 05:11:06 Archaeologists in Iran have unearthed the lavish grave of a teenager who lived more than 3,000 years ago, when the region was part of the Greater Khorasan Civilization. The woman died at about age 1… [+4890 chars] Comments (0) NASA finds multi-billion-year-old 'coral' on Mars - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-09 05:10:48 NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back intriguing images of what looks like a piece of coral on Mars . The strange object is in fact a small, light-colored, wind-eroded rock, which the rover found in… [+2454 chars] Comments (0) Identify bird calls like a pro with these bird ID apps - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-09 05:10:31 Whether you're a keen birder or just starting out, using one of the best bird identification apps can enhance your birdspotting experiences. Bird identification apps can help you learn and distinguis… [+21321 chars] Comments (0) Stone tool discovery could offer new clue in mystery of ancient ‘hobbit’ humans - CNN Posted at 2025-08-09 05:10:14 Archaeologists have uncovered primitive sharp-edged stone tools on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, adding another piece to an evolutionary puzzle involving mysterious ancient humans who lived in a… [+8613 chars] Comments (0) Louisiana fossils reveal mosasaur life before dinosaur-killing asteroid impact - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-09 05:09:55 Millions of years before jazz filled New Orleans streets or fishing boats were harvesting shrimp in the Gulf, Louisiana was home to terrifying sea monsters, a tenacious mammal and a seismic cataclysm… [+5432 chars] Comments (0) Discovery of New Manta Ray Species in the Atlantic Ocean - Indian Defence Review Posted at 2025-08-09 05:09:37 The discovery of Mobula yarae, the third manta ray species, has been officially confirmed after 15 years of research and observation, marking a monumental moment for marine biology and conservation. … [+5716 chars] Comments (0) ULA CEO Tory Bruno Outlines plans for Vulcan and beyond - NASASpaceFlight.com - Posted at 2025-08-09 05:09:20 31In a teleconference ahead of the United Launch Alliances (ULA) first mission for the U.S. Space Force (USSF) with its Vulcan rocket, President and CEO Tory Bruno shared insights on a range of topic… [+6654 chars] Comments (0) Direct visualization of quantum zero-point motion in complex molecule reveals eternal dance of atoms - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-09 05:09:03 Most of us find it difficult to grasp the quantum world. According to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, it's like observing a dance without being able to see simultaneously exactly where someone is… [+4528 chars] Comments (0) Nature's hardest teeth: Chitons offer blueprint for advanced dental and industrial materials - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-09 05:08:45 Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Japan's Okayama and Toho universities have conducted a first-of-its-kind study to understand how chitons, mollusks that feed on algae growing o… [+5344 chars] Comments (0) Auroras may be visible from 18 states this weekend as solar storm barrels toward Earth - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-09 05:08:27 Space weather experts warn that a moderate-strength geomagnetic storm could hit Earth Friday or Saturday (Aug. 8 or 9) — possibly bringing auroras to northern U.S. skies. On Wednesday (Aug. 6), the … [+2644 chars] Comments (0) New study reveals surprising clues about the beginning of subduction on Earth - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-09 05:08:10 Subduction, a crucial geological process on Earth, may have begun hundreds of millions of years earlier than traditionally believed. This surprising discovery comes from a new study published by res… [+2664 chars] Comments (0) Scientists Think They Have Found a Brand-New Mineral on Mars - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-09 05:07:53 Scientists have a fairly good idea of what Mars surface looks like. But exactly what that surface is made up of is more of a mystery.  Now, scientists believe they have discovered an entirely new mi… [+2022 chars] Comments (0) A laser-propelled mini spacecraft could travel to a nearby black hole, astrophysicist says - Space Posted at 2025-08-09 05:07:36 Future technology could one day allow a miniature, laser-propelled spacecraft — no heavier than a paperclip — to travel to a nearby black hole, according to a bold new proposal published on Thursday … [+3989 chars] Comments (0) The biggest black hole ever seen? Scientists find one with mass of 36 billion suns - Space Posted at 2025-08-09 05:07:18 About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an astonishing black hole. It was only just measured by scientists who managed … [+8135 chars] Comments (0) Researchers say they have identified the mysterious killer of more than 5 billion sea stars - PBS Posted at 2025-08-09 05:07:00 WASHINGTON (AP) Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea stars  often kn… [+3858 chars] Comments (0) Record-Setting Tarantulas Boast Longest Sex Organs to Avoid Getting Eaten by Females - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-08 05:15:58 Researchers have just identified four new species of tarantulas whose genitals are so long they had to make a new biological classification for them. Meet the Satyrex ferox, S. arabicus, S. somalicu… [+2684 chars] Comments (0) Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene - Nature Posted at 2025-08-08 05:15:40 Comments (0) Microglia–neuron crosstalk via Hex–GM2–MGL2 maintains brain homeostasis - Nature Posted at 2025-08-08 05:15:23 Comments (0) A diverse and distinct microbiome inside living trees - Nature Posted at 2025-08-08 05:15:04 Comments (0) Data-driven de novo design of super-adhesive hydrogels - Nature Posted at 2025-08-08 05:14:47 Comments (0) Some AI tools don’t understand biology yet - Ars Technica Posted at 2025-08-08 05:14:28 Comments (0) Artemis 2 moon astronauts suit up and enter their Orion spacecraft together for 1st time - Space Posted at 2025-08-08 05:14:10 The four crewmembers of NASA's next moon mission are moving closer to their upcoming launch. The Artemis 2 crew consists of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman (commander), Victor Glover (pilot), Christina… [+4743 chars] Comments (0) The Earth didn’t just crack, it curved. "It sent chills down my spine!" - ScienceDaily Posted at 2025-08-08 05:13:52 Dramatic CCTV video of fault slip during a recent large earthquake in Myanmar thrilled both scientists and casual observers when it was posted to YouTube. But it was on his fifth or sixth viewing, sa… [+3869 chars] Comments (0) “Potentially Huge Implications” – Scientists Discover Ancient Carbon Is Leaking Into the Atmosphere - SciTechDaily Posted at 2025-08-08 05:13:33 Aerial image of rivers in northeast Siberia which are known to emit old carbon. Credit: University of Bristol A new global study reveals that ancient carbon, once thought securely stored in soils an… [+4397 chars] Comments (0) 'Most remarkable' fossil of Jurassic sea monster from Germany is previously unknown species - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-08 05:13:15 A "most remarkable" monster's fossilized remains from Jurassic Germany is a never-before-seen species, a new study reports. The marine reptile, which swam in prehistoric oceans about 183 million yea… [+3231 chars] Comments (0) Evidence of World-Changing Comet Explosion 12,800 Years Ago Found in The Ocean - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-08 05:12:57 Microscopic grains of alien dust buried in the sediment at the bottom of the ocean could be evidence of a comet that exploded in Earth's atmosphere 12,800 years ago. This hypothetical event, known a… [+3139 chars] Comments (0) Mystery of why sea stars keep turning into goo finally solved — and it's not what scientists thought - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-08 05:12:38 Researchers have discovered the cause of a mysterious marine epidemic that has turned billions of sea stars into goo along the West Coast — and it's not what they expected. Sea star wasting disease … [+4472 chars] Comments (0) Rarer Than a Diamond: This Tiny Fossil Has Scientists Completely Shook - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-08 05:12:18 A newly discovered 16-million-year-old fossil of an elusive dirt ant preserved in Dominican amber has stunned scientists and reshaped our understanding of ant evolution. The study, published in the P… [+3399 chars] Comments (0) NASA’s new chief has radically rewritten the rules for private space stations - Ars Technica Posted at 2025-08-08 05:11:57 Comments (0) ‘Battle of the Big Bang’ Review: A Question of Origins - The Wall Street Journal Posted at 2025-08-08 05:11:36 In the 1920s, scientists discovered that the universe was not static in size, as had previously been assumed, but was expanding in all directions. Galaxies were rushing away from one another as the v… [+2389 chars] Comments (0) "Earthquakes Fuel Hidden Life Deep In Earth’s Crust": Scientists Uncover Startling New Ecosystem Below - Energy Reporters Posted at 2025-08-08 05:11:09 IN A NUTSHELL Scientists uncover how earthquakes fuel life deep within Earth’s crust, challenging traditional beliefs. Research shows that rock fract… [+5863 chars] Comments (0) Meet the universe's earliest confirmed black hole: A monster at the dawn of time - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-08 05:10:44 An international team of astronomers, led by The University of Texas at Austin's Cosmic Frontier Center, has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed. It and the galaxy it calls home, CA… [+5639 chars] Comments (0) Perseverance rover captures Mars vista as clear as day - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-08 05:10:16 The imaging team of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has taken advantage of clear skies on the red planet to capture one of the sharpest panoramas of its mission so far. Visible in the mosaic, which wa… [+3755 chars] Comments (0) NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-10 Return, Splashdown - NASA (.gov) Posted at 2025-08-08 05:09:48 NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Aug. 7, for the undocking of the agencys SpaceX Crew-10 mission from the International Space Station. Pending weather condition… [+2825 chars] Comments (0) Astronaut Butch Wilmore retires from NASA after 25 years - Space Posted at 2025-08-08 05:09:18 Astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore is leaving NASA after a quarter-century of service. Wilmore flew on four different spacecraft during his astronaut career, which began way back in 2000. He spent a to… [+3024 chars] Comments (0) 'Hot Blob' Heading For New York Following Ancient Greenland Rift - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-07 05:15:42 A vast blob of hot rock moving slowly beneath the Appalachian Mountains in the northeastern US is now thought to be the result of a divorce between Greenland and Canada some 80 million years ago. A … [+2975 chars] Comments (0) A Massive Fault Line Was Supposed to Be ‘Dead’. It Sure Seems Like It’s Stirring Again. - Yahoo News Canada Posted at 2025-08-07 05:15:24 Heres what youll learn when you read this story: The Tintina fault is thought to have been inactive for more than 40 million years, but new research suggests that earthquakes occurred in the… [+3843 chars] Comments (0) AI wearables are quietly listening to everyone in Silicon Valley - The San Francisco Standard Posted at 2025-08-07 05:15:05 Warning, San Francisco: That cute necklace your coworker is wearing might be recording you. A crop of startups is selling stealthy AI-powered recording devices and software thats becoming increasing… [+9299 chars] Comments (0) Dark Mirror of Our Own Universe Could Explain Quirks in Gravity - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-07 05:14:45 Since conventional explanations have failed to pony up dark matter, one physicist is looking towards the unconventional. In a series of two papers, physicist Stefano Profumo of the University of Cal… [+3470 chars] Comments (0) Baby star sets off explosion, gets caught in blast - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-07 05:14:01 Astronomers have observed an explosion in space that is pushing back against and influencing the baby star which triggered the explosion in the first place. If explosions like this one are common aro… [+3696 chars] Comments (0) "Chinese Researchers Produce Water Oxygen And Fuel" From Lunar Soil In A Breakthrough That Could Transform Moon Missions - Energy Reporters Posted at 2025-08-07 05:13:29 IN A NUTSHELL Chinese researchers have developed a solar-powered device to extract water, oxygen, and fuel from the Moon’s regolith. The device utili… [+5571 chars] Comments (0) “Earth 2.0?” Breakthrough Discovery Reveals Potentially Habitable Super-Earth - SciTechDaily Posted at 2025-08-07 05:12:55 Astronomers have found a concealed super-Earth in the habitable zone of a distant Sun-like star, using a groundbreaking detection technique. The discovery could reshape the hunt for life beyond our p… [+4334 chars] Comments (0) Experiment Recreates The Universe's Very First Chemical Reactions - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-07 05:12:21 The first chemical reactions in the wake of the Big Bang have been recreated for the first time in conditions similar to those in the baby Universe. A team of physicists Led by Florian Grussie of th… [+3772 chars] Comments (0) The Sun Erupts with 3 Major Solar Flares in 24 Hours – What It Means for Earth - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-07 05:11:49 After weeks of relative quiet, the Sun has erupted with a series of powerful solar flares, signaling a return to more active space weather conditions. Over the weekend, three M-class solar flares wer… [+5974 chars] Comments (0) Scientists heat gold to 14 times its melting point — without turning it into a liquid - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-07 05:11:27 Scientists have used ultrafast high-intensity lasers to superheat gold to 14 times its melting point without turning the solid metal into a liquid. The record-breaking experiment, which was describe… [+4315 chars] Comments (0) Baby shark washes up on Pacific City beach - OregonLive.com Posted at 2025-08-07 05:11:08 Roy Cabal was on the beach Sunday in Pacific City when a co-worker alerted him to an unusual sight nearby: a shark wiggling in the sand. The young fish was there for about 20 minutes near Bob Strau… [+2913 chars] Comments (0) Is NASA Wallops Going GOCO? - NASA Watch Posted at 2025-08-07 05:10:48 NASA Watch founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber. Comments (0) NASA declares troubled Lunar Trailblazer moon orbiter dead - Space Posted at 2025-08-07 05:10:31 NASA has finally given up on Lunar Trailblazer. The 440-pound (200-kilogram) moon orbiter went dark on Feb. 27, 2025 a day after it launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. NASA kept trying to … [+2750 chars] Comments (0) The World’s First Commercial Spaceplane Won’t Be Launching Anytime Soon - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-07 05:10:13 The highly anticipated launch of the Dream Chaser spaceplane may be delayed yet again as Sierra Space continues to test its experimental vehicle. The inaugural Dream Chaser, named Tenacity, is slate… [+3294 chars] Comments (0) Fossil evidence reveals early primates evolved in cold climates, not tropical forests - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-07 05:09:55 Primatesthe group of animals that includes monkeys, apes and humansfirst evolved in cold, seasonal climates around 66 million years ago, not in the warm tropical forests scientists previously believe… [+2858 chars] Comments (0) Deepest-Ever Field Image of Giant Galaxy Cluster Is a Brutal Reminder of Your Cosmic Insignificance - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-07 05:09:38 When it comes to deep space observations, our cosmological insignificance seems to grow with the resolution of our telescopes cameras. In the latest advance, astronomers constructed the deepest-ever … [+3051 chars] Comments (0) Earth's 'oldest' impact crater is much younger than previously thought, new study finds - Space Posted at 2025-08-07 05:09:21 This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Ever been late because you misread a clock? So… [+6351 chars] Comments (0) China found something very strange in moon dust samples that shouldn't be there - Earth.com Posted at 2025-08-07 05:09:03 Chinese researchers found something surprising in the dust brought back by the Chang’e-5 mission: thin layers of carbon called graphene. The spectral fingerprint matched multilayer graphene, a carbo… [+5173 chars] Comments (0) Earth Is Spinning Weirdly Faster, Making Today One of the Shortest Days Ever - CNET Posted at 2025-08-07 05:08:46 Earth's rotation is randomly speeding up, and nobody is quite sure why. These speedups, which have occurred several times over the last few years, haven't had any effect on daily life, but they also … [+2381 chars] Comments (0) Gorillas seek out old female friends when they move - BBC Posted at 2025-08-07 05:08:27 Victoria GillScience correspondent, BBC News Female gorillas appear to maintain their social relationships for many years The relationships built up between female mountain gorillas are more impor… [+3353 chars] Comments (0) How NASA fixed a camera 370 million miles away - Boing Boing Posted at 2025-08-06 05:18:39 When a camera on a spacecraft 370 million miles away malfunctions, NASA can't just send a technician to repair it, so they have to get creative. They recently revealed the details of a repair of the … [+1777 chars] Comments (0) Science Reveals the Surprising Origins of the Potato - WIRED Posted at 2025-08-06 05:18:15 There are more than a hundred ways to prepare a potato, and thousands of stories have begun with a shot of vodka distilled from this tuber. For centuries, the potato has been instrumental in feeding … [+2804 chars] Comments (0) 3 powerful solar flares erupt in less than 24 hours, ending weeks of calm on the sun (video) - Space Posted at 2025-08-06 05:17:51 After more than three weeks without a powerful solar flare, the sun has suddenly ramped up its activity, firing off three M-class solar flares in less than 24 hours. While the sun has been popping… [+4111 chars] Comments (0) 3I/ATLAS Has No Visible Tail or Spectral Fingerprints of Gas Around It - Avi Loeb – Medium Posted at 2025-08-06 05:17:28 Intensity maps of 3I/ATLAS from stacking datasets collected on the 4th (top row) and 29th (bottom row) of July 2025, showing no visible cometary tail. The arrows point the directions to the Sun, nort… [+6580 chars] Comments (0) Marking 13 Years on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity Picks Up New Skills - NASA (.gov) Posted at 2025-08-06 05:17:04 New capabilities allow the rover to do science with less energy from its batteries. Thirteen years since Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are finding ways to make the NASA rover even more product… [+5619 chars] Comments (0) Scientists just recreated the universe's first ever molecules — and the results challenge our understanding of the early cosmos - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-06 05:16:40 For the first time, researchers have recreated the universe's first ever molecules by mimicking the conditions of the early universe . The findings shake up our understanding of the origin of stars… [+3162 chars] Comments (0) White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite - Futurism Posted at 2025-08-06 05:16:17 The White House has instructed NASA employees to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. As NPR reports, Trump officials reached out to the space agency to draw up plans for … [+3313 chars] Comments (0) Ancient Human Ancestors Showed Extreme Size Differences Between Males and Females - ZME Science Posted at 2025-08-06 05:15:36 Credit: Ken Zirkel,the Museum of Natural History By the time Lucy took her final steps across the Ethiopian landscape 3 million years ago, her kind may have been living in a social world far more co… [+5053 chars] Comments (0) Scientists Discovered a Way to Reverse Time—and Possibly Erase Mistakes - AOL.com Posted at 2025-08-06 05:14:26 Scientists Learn How to Speed Up Evolutionary TimeAitor Diago - Getty Images Heres what youll learn when you read this story: In the physical world, time marches in one direction, but thing… [+3843 chars] Comments (0) Organized scientific fraud is growing at an alarming rate, study uncovers - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-06 05:14:02 From fabricated research to paid authorships and citations, organized scientific fraud is on the rise, according to a new Northwestern University study. By combining large-scale data analysis of sci… [+8744 chars] Comments (0) Prehistoric Air Has Been Reconstructed From Dinosaur Teeth in an Amazing First - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-06 05:13:36 A collection of dinosaur teeth hailing back to the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods has given scientists a new window into the world's prehistoric climate. By studying an isotope of oxygen in the fos… [+4870 chars] Comments (0) Watch a pod of orcas pretending to drown one of their own in macabre training session - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-06 05:13:14 Orca moms teach their young how to pretend-drown each other, first-of-its-kind footage shows. The brutal training session teaches orcas the skills needed to kill the largest animal that has ever live… [+3481 chars] Comments (0) Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit? - Ars Technica Posted at 2025-08-06 05:12:48 Comments (0) One gene reveals clues to why humans thrived and Neanderthals didn’t - The Washington Post Posted at 2025-08-06 05:12:26 Scientists have a new clue in the long quest to decipher what makes us uniquely human: tiny changes in brain chemistry that set us apart from our closest hominin cousins. In a study published Monday… [+5415 chars] Comments (0) It's not just how many, it's when: People judge a potential partner's sexual history by timing, not total number - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-06 05:12:02 A major international study has found that when it comes to choosing a long-term partner, people across the globe consider not just how many sexual partners someone has had, but also when those encou… [+3727 chars] Comments (0) James Webb Space Telescope revisits a classic Hubble image of over 2,500 galaxies - Space Posted at 2025-08-06 05:11:37 The James Webb Space Telescope has returned to the scene of one of the Hubble Space Telescope's most iconic images, the Ultra Deep Field, to capture galaxies throughout cosmic history. This new imag… [+4630 chars] Comments (0) Culprit behind mass sea star deaths along Pacific coast revealed, scientists say - OregonLive.com Posted at 2025-08-06 05:11:12 WASHINGTON Scientists say they have at last solved the mystery of what killed more than 5 billion sea stars off the Pacific coast of North America in a decade-long epidemic. Sea stars often known as… [+3876 chars] Comments (0) Mysterious underground ‘hot blob’ moving towards New York? Scientists puzzled - Hindustan Times - Hindustan Times Posted at 2025-08-06 05:10:50 A mysterious hot blob is moving towards New York City, leaving scientists puzzled. UK scientists have found a massive blob of rock under the Appalachian mountains, and it is headed towards the Big Ap… [+2487 chars] Comments (0) No More Snacks, Exercise, Or Visitors at Goddard And Wallops - NASA Watch Posted at 2025-08-06 05:10:23 Comments (0) Static electricity sense could be factor in evolution of extreme body shapes of treehoppers - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-05 05:25:42 Could detecting static electricity be a factor in explaining why treehopper insects have evolved such bizarre body shapes? That is the hypothesis put forward in a new research paper published in Pro… [+3380 chars] Comments (0) Scientists Discover First Juvenile Pleurosaurus, Solving a 150-Million-Year Mystery - Indian Defence Review Posted at 2025-08-05 05:24:59 A new study published in The Anatomical Record unveils the first clearly identified juvenile specimen of the extinct genus Pleurosaurus, offering rare insight into the developmental biology of a mari… [+5011 chars] Comments (0) Black Holes Are Singing – Scientists Finally Know the Lyrics - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-05 05:24:06 Scientists have uncovered a breakthrough in our understanding of black holes by using a powerful mathematical tool known as the exact Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) method. The study, published in P… [+2928 chars] Comments (0) Our Mighty Mitochondria: Cell Powerhouses Can Be Harnessed for Healing - Good News Network Posted at 2025-08-05 05:22:58 Cell with mitochondria Painting by Dr. Odra Noel, CC BY-NC 4.0 (Article by Jackie Rocheleau originally published by Knowable Magazine) Infusion of the tiny, sausage-shaped structures helps to rejuv… [+10295 chars] Comments (0) Artemis II astronauts discuss mission status ahead of in-capsule training - NASASpaceFlight.com - Posted at 2025-08-05 05:21:55 7Scheduled to launch in February 2026, the Artemis II Orion capsule and Space Launch System (SLS) rocket are currently at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for final integration and stacking. The Artem… [+7810 chars] Comments (0) How far can the most powerful telescope see into space? - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-05 05:21:30 The world's first telescope, crafted in 1608 by the Dutch eyeglass maker Hans Lippershey , led to stunning technologies that would later revolutionize our understanding of the universe. While his te… [+6486 chars] Comments (0) Earth’s Oxygen Dissipation Begins Earlier Than Expected, and NASA Sets a Date for the End of Life - Indian Defence Review Posted at 2025-08-05 05:21:03 The air we breathe may seem like a permanent feature of our planet, but new research suggests its far from eternal. A study published in Nature Geoscienceby scientists from NASA and Japans Toho Unive… [+3387 chars] Comments (0) Skyscraper-size spikes of methane ice may surround Pluto's equator - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-05 05:20:27 Skyscraper-size spires of mehtane ice may cover around 60% of Pluto 's equatorial region — a larger area than scientists previously estimated, new research finds. The study, published July 5 in the… [+4642 chars] Comments (0) NASA's $1 Billion Gamble: "We Are Not Alone" Message Sent to the Stars Ignites Fear and Hope Amid Global Debate - Rude Baguette Posted at 2025-08-05 05:19:59 IN A NUTSHELL Apollo 17 marked the end of the Space Race with a plaque commemorating the final manned lunar mission’s peaceful intentions. SpaceX laun… [+5793 chars] Comments (0) Scientists just recreated the Universe’s first molecule and solved a 13-billion-year-old puzzle - ScienceDaily Posted at 2025-08-05 05:19:25 Immediately after the Big Bang, which occurred around 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was dominated by unimaginably high temperatures and densities. However, after just a few seconds, it had coo… [+4355 chars] Comments (0) Spacecraft equipped with a solar sail could deliver earlier warnings of space weather threats to Earth’s technologies - Space Posted at 2025-08-05 05:19:02 This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The burgeoning space industry and the technolo… [+9740 chars] Comments (0) Unbelievable simulation showing the speed of the International Space Station leaves people stunned - supercarblondie.com Posted at 2025-08-05 05:18:39 This unbelievable simulation showing the speed of the International Space Station is blowing peoples minds and leaving people stunned. The International Space Station is repeatedly doing flybys wher… [+1735 chars] Comments (0) Oxygen Crisis Looms: Lanternfish Extinction Could Set Off Global Marine Collapse - Indian Defence Review Posted at 2025-08-05 05:18:17 A recent study published in Communications Earth & Environmentprovides a stark warning about the ocean’s future: the looming oxygen crisis may threaten key marine species, including the crucial l… [+5173 chars] Comments (0) Reconstructions reveal faces of Neolithic sisters buried 6,000 years ago - Archaeology News Online Magazine Posted at 2025-08-05 05:17:56 More than 6,000 years ago, in the Krumlov Forest of South Moravia in the Czech Republic, two sisters endured a hard life in an ancient mining settlement. Now, thanks to advanced forensic methods and … [+4440 chars] Comments (0) Something Massive Could Still Be Hiding in The Shadows of Our Solar System - ScienceAlert Posted at 2025-08-04 05:25:03 Is there a massive undiscovered planet on the outer reaches of the Solar System? The idea has been around since before the discovery of Pluto in the 1930s. Labelled as planet X, prominent astronomer… [+5470 chars] Comments (0) Mark Allen Walls - The Republic News Posted at 2025-08-04 05:24:18 COLUMBUS Mark Allen Walls, 54, of Columbus, passed away on July 28, 2025, at The Belmont Health & Rehabilitation. Born on December 28, 1970, Mark was the beloved son of Judith Harris and Alvin … [+1090 chars] Comments (0) How do frogs breathe and drink through their skin? - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-04 05:23:56 Unlike humans, frogs and other amphibians don't need to rely on their lungs to breathe; their unique skin helps them exchange oxygen and drink. But how do frogs breathe and drink through their skin… [+3967 chars] Comments (0) NASA unveils 9 stunning snapshots of the cosmos in X-ray vision: Space photo of the week - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-04 05:23:35 NASA has released a compilation of nine new images created by its Chandra X-ray Observatory, with help from Hubble and JWST. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/SAO) What it is: Nine archive images from NASA's … [+2740 chars] Comments (0) ‘Sleeping Giant’ Fault Under Canada Shows Major Earthquake Potential - Gizmodo Posted at 2025-08-04 05:23:13 After 12 millennia of relative inactivity, a geologic fault that stretches across the territory of Yukon, Canada, and Alaska now appears capable of producing a major earthquake, according to a new st… [+3536 chars] Comments (0) A Half-Ton Metal Ring Crashed From the Sky in Kenya, and the Country’s Space Agency Revealed What Many Feared - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-04 05:22:52 A metallic ring weighing over 1,100 pounds crash-landed in Kenya just before New Years Eve, sending shockwavesliteral and figurativethrough the small community of Mukuku, about 115 kilometers southea… [+3063 chars] Comments (0) August brings the meteor shower NYC stargazers wait all year to see - Gothamist Posted at 2025-08-04 05:22:28 Stargazers have a chance to get a good look at the Milky Way and summer constellations in the night skies this August. Some of the planets are beginning to reappear and one of the best meteor shower… [+2371 chars] Comments (0) Chernobyl’s Dogs Are Transforming at Record Speed – What Radiation Is Really Doing to Their DNA - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-04 05:22:07 A genetic study conducted by the University of South Carolina and the National Human Genome Research Institute, published in Science Advances, has uncovered that dogs living within the Chernobyl excl… [+2800 chars] Comments (0) “We Brought the Future Back to Earth” Declares SpaceX After Dragon Lands With 6,700 Pounds of Advanced Robots From Wild Mission - Rude Baguette Posted at 2025-08-04 05:21:45 IN A NUTSHELL SpaceX’s Dragon capsule returned with 6,700 pounds of futuristic gear, marking a milestone in space exploration. The MISSE-20 project t… [+5469 chars] Comments (0) Earth, Mars, Venus — and a long-lost planet — may have once 'waltzed' in perfect harmony around the sun - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-04 05:21:22 Four of the solar system 's terrestrial planets, including Earth and a long-lost world, likely started life waltzing around the sun to a fixed rhythm, according to a new study. The findings also s… [+5207 chars] Comments (0) Ghana has a rare treasure, a crater made when a meteor hit Earth: why it needs to be protected - Space Posted at 2025-08-04 05:18:19 This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Impact craters are formed when an object from … [+5788 chars] Comments (0) Image: Webb takes a fresh look at a classic deep field - Phys.org Posted at 2025-08-04 05:17:44 An area of deep space with thousands of galaxies in various shapes and sizes. Most are circles or ovals, with a few spirals. More distant galaxies are smaller, down to being mere dots, while closer g… [+3123 chars] Comments (0) Scientists Find Planet Orbiting Backwards: A Discovery That Could Rewrite Astronomy - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-04 05:17:21 Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery that defies the conventional understanding of planetary formation in binary star systems. A planet orbiting in a retrograde directionopposite to its b… [+5368 chars] Comments (0) ‘Space Hurricanes’ Swirling Over The Poles Could Throw GPS Into Chaos - The Daily Galaxy Posted at 2025-08-04 05:16:58 Researchers have confirmed that massive space hurricanes are swirling over Earths polar regions, injecting vast amounts of energy into the upper atmosphere and even interfering with GPS signals. Thes… [+2814 chars] Comments (0) How The World Will Look Very Different in 2050, According to Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Root Posted at 2025-08-04 05:16:37 Leave it to Neil deGrasse Tyson to casually predict the next 25 years like its no biggie. During episode 1904 of the Joe Rogan Experience, the astrophysicist, author, and science celeb offered a bold… [+3181 chars] Comments (0) Why does your mind goes 'blank'? New brain scans reveal the surprising answer - Live Science Posted at 2025-08-04 05:16:12 You look up from your phone screen and suddenly realize you weren't thinking about anything. It's not a lapse in memory or a daydream; it's literally a moment when you're not thinking of anything at … [+6407 chars] Comments (0) Earth's "Unthinkable Speed Surge" on August 5, 2025 Sparks Fears and Divides Scientists Over Its Ominous Implications on Our Planet's Future - Energy Reporters Posted at 2025-08-04 05:15:50 IN A NUTSHELL On August 5, 2025, Earth will complete its rotation 1.51 milliseconds earlier, leaving scientists baffled by the unexplained acceleration. <… [+5056 chars] Comments (0) Next Page