More evidence for young Saturn moons
By Deborah Byrd in SPACE for Earth Sky. Scientists have been pondering the ages of Saturn’s moons and rings for some time. Some decades ago,…
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Giraffes in process of ‘silent extinction,’ wildlife group says
By Euan McKirdy for CNN. (CNN)Africa’s wild giraffe population has plunged dramatically and the world’s tallest animals are in the process of a “silent extinction,” a…
SpaceX return-to-flight slips to early January
By Stephen Clark for Space Flight Now. SpaceX’s first mission since a rocket explosion on a Florida launch pad is now scheduled for early January, when a…
US life expectancy declines for first time in 20 years
By the BBC. Life expectancy in the United States has declined for the first time in more than two decades. Data from the National Center…
North Korean Volcano Provides Rare Chance For Scientific Collaboration
By RAE ELLEN BICHELL for National Public Radio. In 2011, when North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il died, the state news agency reported that Mount Paektu took…
Dear Trump: Science deserves ‘critical role’ in future of United States
By Weston Williams for the Christian Science Monitor. Dozens of prominent scientists, including 22 Nobel winners, released an open letter to Donald Trump and the 155th Congress…
LIGO back online, ready for more discoveries
By Jennifer Chu for PhysOrg. Today (November 30), scientists restarted the twin detectors of LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, after making several improvements to the…
New evidence that Lucy, our most famous ancestor, had superstrong arms
By Sarah Kaplan for the Wall Street Journal. In Ethiopia, she is known as “Dinkinesh” — Amharic for “you are marvelous.” It’s an apt name for…
Psilocybin: A Journey Beyond the Fear of Death?
By Richard Schiffman for Scientific American. In one of the largest and most rigorous clinical investigations of psychedelic drugs to date, researchers at Johns Hopkins University…
NASA on a space fire mission: a step towards safer Mars colonization
By Qarla Diokno for stgist. NASA has been igniting samples aboard a spacecraft in space to study fire risks as it develops better environment for space explorers. Before we can…
SpaceX wins NASA contract to launch ocean-surveying satellite
By Loren Grush for The Verge. SpaceX has won another contract from NASA to launch one of the agency’s Earth science satellites in less than five years….
Fireball Spotted in Night Sky Over Florida
By Ashish Parihar for Morning News. A dazzling fireball blazing through the skies of Florida sparked fears of a possible alien invasion. The watchers were so terrified,…
7,300-Year-Old City Excavated In Egypt
By Himanshu Goenka for Yahoo News. Civil unrest, political upheavals and two airplane incidents in recent years have affected the flow of tourists to the land…
West Antarctica is in huge trouble. But now, scientists say the problem may date back to 1945
By Chris Mooney for the Washington Post. Science likes to surprise us. That’s the extraordinary, mind-opening thing about it. It’s possible that is now happening with one…
Did NASA Mars Rover find a signature of past life?
By Leonard David for Space.com. During its wheeled treks on the Red Planet, NASA’s Spirit rover may have encountered a potential signature of past life…
‘Heroic’ Antarctic explorers left sea-ice clues
By Pallab Ghosh by BBC News. Log books from the early Antarctic expeditions indicate that the area of summer sea-ice around the continent has barely…
Europe’s New Mars Orbiter Begins Testing Science Gear
By Mike Wall for Space.com. Europe’s new Mars probe is making its first science observations at the Red Planet, if everything is going according to…
Meet the crab with the ‘mighty claw’
By Helen Briggs for BBC News. The claws of coconut crabs have the strongest pinching force of any crustacean, according to research. What’s more, their…
Why scientists are backing an asteroid-deflection mission
By Weston Williams for the Christian Science Monitor. How do you stop an asteroid headed directly at Earth? That’s the question that scientists have been asking…
Space Poop Challenge: NASA Seeks Solutions To Astronauts’ Potty Problems
BY AVANEESH PANDEY for International Business Times. Imagine, if you will, that you are an astronaut out on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, when…