"Once-in-a-lifetime" cosmic explosion is likely this summer, NASA says.
CBS News has the details on the "nova, which happens when a white dwarf lights up suddenly and often strikingly in the night sky."
"Once-in-a-lifetime" cosmic explosion is likely this summer, NASA says.
CBS News has the details on the "nova, which happens when a white dwarf lights up suddenly and often strikingly in the night sky."
"Echidnapus" hints at a lost age of egg-laying mammals.
From Science News: "The extinct creature's bizarre mix of features are reminiscent of platypuses and echidnas."
Here's the original research: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03115518.2024.2348753
Who were the victims of Maya sacrifice? Ancient DNA reveals an unexpected finding.
CNN reports on a new study from the journal Nature: https://flip.it/Iyq0Da
Here's the original study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07509-7
For similar content, follow @archeology-today-science
Who’s the father? For these baby animals, one doesn’t exist.
Vox reports: "More animals can occasionally reproduce asexually than scientists realized."
A 4,000-year-old Greek hilltop site mystifies archaeologists. It could spell trouble for new airport plans.
AP reports on the find "from Crete’s Minoan civilization, famous for its sumptuous palaces, flamboyant art and enigmatic writing system. Resembling a huge car wheel from above, the ruins of the labyrinthine, 1,800-square-meter (19,000-square-foot) building came to light during a recent dig by archaeologists."
I'm sad to report the death of Ed Stone, the NASA scientist who was the heart & soul of the Voyager program. Spending time with him for my Discover magazine profile was a highlight of my career.
I did my best to capture the experience:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/voyager-the-man-behind-the-mission #science #space #nasa #astronomy
Surreal beauty in this Sol 4206 panorama for which we keep getting more images.
by the Mars rover Curiosity, June 5, 2024
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk
#Curiosity #Mars #Sol4206 #rover #CuriosityRover #space #science #Martian #landscape #panorama #photography #STEM
Human spaceflight’s new era is fraught with medical and ethical questions.
Science News reports: "Even short trips to space have lasting effects on the average human, private missions hint." Learn more about a new project known as the Space Omics and Medical Atlas, or SOMA.
"A study in 2013 showed that globally, livestock account for about 14.5 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, more than all the world’s cars and trucks combined."
@KnowableMag reports on new efforts to combat global warming by cleaning up cow burps: https://flip.it/qONU0s
#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Agriculture #Cows #Farming #Climate #Methane #Science
Elephants are more like humans than we realized, according to new research.
Vox reports: "A new study reveals elephants can call each other by name. What does that mean for the movement for their rights?"
The Northeast and Midwest U.S. are enduring what is, in some places, the worst outbreak of spongy moths on record.
@grist explains what's behind the caterpillar invasion: https://flip.it/Pbg.iG
#Moth #Insects #Entomology #Drought #InvasiveSpecies #Science
The Hubble Telescope launched into orbit 34 years ago and is planned continue its journey around the planet until the mid-2030s. Then what? In 2022, billionaire Jared Isaacman announced a proposal to save the program, but NASA turned it down. Space.com tells us why: https://flip.it/ncqMk5
#Science #Space #HubbleTelescope #SpaceExploration #NASA
Cell biologist and biochemist Leonard Rome’s lab discovered an odd, abundant component of cells in the 1980s — and he’s still trying to figure out what it does. Could solving the cell’s biggest mystery help cancer patients someday? Science.org has more. https://flip.it/Y41lCe
#Science #Health #Cancer #Cells #Biology
Donald Dorff could hear the crowd roaring as he snatched the quarterback’s throw from the air. All that stood between him and the goal line was a 280-pound defender. “I decided to give him my shoulder,” he told National Geographic magazine in 1987. “When I came to, I was on the floor in my bedroom.” CNN describes how Dorff went from retired grocery manufacturer to the first patient to be diagnosed with a new sleep disorder. https://flip.it/C4pesM
#Science #Humans #Health #Sleep #SleepDisorders
William Anders, a NASA astronaut who was part of the 1968 Apollo 8 crew that was the first to orbit the moon, died Friday in a plane crash in Washington state, his son Gregory Anders confirmed. He was 90 years old. Anders took the famous "Earthrise" photo that showed our world with the lunar horizon in the foreground. NBC News has more on the crash and Anders’ life. https://flip.it/0sR1e7
#Science #NASA #Space #SpaceExploration
Conditions such as autism are poorly researched in low- and middle-income countries, but as interest in studying them grows, so do worries about “parachute” research. This is where investigators from affluent countries collect data from vulnerable populations without the participation of local researchers, leaving without sharing their insights with local communities.
@thetransmitter’s Linda Nordling writes more about this.
#Health #Science #Autism #InternationalRelations #NewstodonFriday #Newstodon
Why fireflies are only spotted in summer and where lightning bugs live the rest of the year.
CBS News reports: "Their time aboveground before dying is brief, with fireflies actually spending the bulk of their lives living underground."
D-Day shipwrecks were a WWII time capsule. Now they are home to rich ocean-floor life.
BBC reports on the 80-year-old sunken wrecks that line the coasts of Britain and France: https://flip.it/uAQ6F6
This is a wild headline from NPR: "A fungus is turning cicadas into horny zombies — but don’t panic."
"[The fungus] Massospora cicadina has been observed in cicadas in more than half a dozen states — both those belonging to Brood XIII, which emerges every 17 years and is concentrated in Illinois, and of Brood XIX, a 13-year group that is distributed across much of the southeast."
Where do you see yourself?
#ActOnClimate #ClimateChange #geography #deforestation #RenewableEnergy #geografia #FossilFuels #ActNow #environment #EndFossilCrimes #ClimateCrisis #Science #warming #Nature #climate #development #gasemissions #ClimateEmergency #climatecrisis #biologia #ClimateAction #photo #photography #GlobalWarming #cartoon #pollution #news #earth #amazon #Politics
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