Iceberg Size Of Delaware Poised To Break Off From Antarctica
By Google News Iceberg Size Of Delaware Poised To Break Off From Antarctica NBCNews.com An oblique view of a massive rift in the Antarctic Peninsula’s…
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Surprise! Monster Burst of Radio Waves Arose in Tiny Galaxy
By Google News Surprise! Monster Burst of Radio Waves Arose in Tiny Galaxy Space.com For the first time, scientists have directly traced an incredibly intense,…
How long does it take to hatch a baby dinosaur egg? Too long.
By Google News How long does it take to hatch a baby dinosaur egg? Too long. Christian Science Monitor New research suggests that dinosaur eggs…
A surprising factor in the extinction of the dinosaurs may have been how long their eggs took to hatch
By Google News. A surprising factor in the extinction of the dinosaurs may have been how long their eggs took to hatch Business Insider Approximately…
The Arctic is showing stunning winter warmth, and these scientists think they know why
By Google News The Arctic is showing stunning winter warmth, and these scientists think they know why Washington Post Last month, temperatures in the high…
Rumblings of Italy’s supervolcano: Will the sleeping giant awaken?
By Google News Rumblings of Italy’s supervolcano: Will the sleeping giant awaken? Christian Science Monitor Campi Flegrei has not erupted since 1538. But now, there…
A supervolcano caused the largest eruption in European history. Now it’s stirring again
By Google News A supervolcano caused the largest eruption in European history. Now it’s stirring again. Washington Post The Italian name for the caldera –…
The shortest day of the year is here
By Google News The shortest day of the year is here The Boston Globe Wednesday marks the winter solstice for us – the shortest…
Cosmic Bling: Jupiter Sports Stormy ‘Pearl’ in New Juno Photo
By Tariq Malik for Space.com. Saturn’s rings may be the jewels of the solar system, but Jupiter wears “pearls,” and a NASA spacecraft has the picture…
Tiger Tail Seahorse Genome Sequencing Helps Understand Evolution Of This Unique Fish
BY HIMANSHU GOENKA for the International Business Times. The seahorse is an evolutionary marvel. It is a fish but doesn’t have a tail fin or a…
Drill Issue Continues to Afflict Mars Rover Curiosity
By Mike Wall for Space.com. SAN FRANCISCO — Mission controllers have a better understanding of the problem that cropped up recently with the Mars rover…
Meet Chewie, the Biggest Australopithecus on Record
By Ewen Callaway for Scientific American. The sound was more like a squish than a thud, as the tall male australopith strode across the East African…
Here is the worst defense of climate change skepticism that you will ever see
By Philip Bump for the Washington Post. Anthony Scaramucci is a Wall Street guy who serves on the executive committee of Donald Trump’s transition team. He…
Asteroid Or Comet Strike May Lead To Extinction: Here’s How Scientists Plan To Save The Earth
By Allan Adamson for Tech Times. A 2015 study by researchers from New York University that was published in the journal Monthly Notices of the…
A Trump team member just compared climate science to the flat-Earth theory
By Chelsea Harvey for the Washington Post. An adviser on the Trump transition team turned heads Wednesday when he likened modern climate science to the ancient belief…
Mars One just delayed its (highly unlikely) Mars mission — again
By Loren Grush for The Verge. Today, Mars One announced a five-year delay to its projected timeline for starting a human colony on Mars, claiming it will…
Speaking Donald Trump’s Language On Climate Change
By Frederick Hewett for WBUR. What does it take to get some face time with President-elect Donald Trump? It helps if you’re a former vice president. And…
New Report Questions Ice in Greenland
By Jeff Nesbit for US News and World Report. A new study in Nature indicates that the bedrock at the bottom of Greenland may not have…
Ancient eclipse records show that days on Earth are getting just a little longer
By Deborah Netburn for the LA Times. The latest findings in Earth science are brought to you by ancient astronomers who observed the heavens as much as…
Salto a Christmas miracle: someone taught this tiny robot to do parkour
By James Vincent for The Verge. Leaping out of the labs at UC Berkeley and straight into my heart, it’s SALTO: a robot designed not to…