Scientists Find First Adult T. Rex Trackway – And The Footprints Are Human-Sized - ScienceAlert
Very few, if any, animals single-handedly represent an entire geological episode lasting nearly 100 million years. But Tyrannosaurus rex is no regular animal.
Earth May Be Harboring a Hidden Stash of Water, Up to 1,800 Miles Below The Surface - ScienceAlert
The phrase "water is life" is true – water makes all known life on Earth possible.
Time is running out to see the Milky Way's brightest display in 2026 - USA Today
September may be a good time to catch a sight of the Milky Way's center while it's still easily visible in 2026 across the US. Here's how.
Rocket Lab is seeing red about NASA’s decision on a Mars spacecraft - Ars Technica
NASA’s award decision appears to be inconsistent with the eligibility criteria."
Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain - Sci.News
Paleontologists from Fundación Dinópolis have identified the first confirmed fossils of the genus Diplodocus found outside North America.
Kīlauea Volcano Eruption Update for Monday, September 14 - Big Island Video News
(BIVN) – Klauea volcano remains in a precursory phase – at this point the longest precursory phase of the current eruption – with a pause in visible lava activity Monday morning. Overnight, there we… [+5764 chars]
Scientists Thought Ancient Water Carved Martian Gullies. New Analysis Says Otherwise - Gizmodo
Turns out Mars' mysterious gullies likely aren't evidence of water, after all.
CERN Detects Quantum Entanglement in Particles Born From The Higgs Boson - ScienceAlert
Something spooky has been spotted in CERN's Large Hadron Collider.
Bright fireball lights up the sky. May have fallen in Great Lakes - Detroit Free Press
An unconfirmed meteor lit up the Michigan sky Sunday evening, with reports suggesting it fallen into Lake Huron.
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS likely formed where its star's light couldn't touch it - Space
"Every one of these objects we study helps us understand a little more about how planets form around other stars."
Scientists searching for dark matter spot a signal that defies explanation - CNN
Finding dark matter would help to understand what the universe is made of. The LZ experiment may have made a breakthrough in detecting the invisible substance.
Speedy electrons for brilliant laser light: Research paves the way for compact, inexpensive free-electron lasers - Phys.org
Extremely short, intense light flashes are in high demand to investigate atoms, molecules and new materials. Free-electron lasers (FELs) produce these flashes. But around the world, beam time available at large-scale user facilities is in short supply, and wa…
In 2018, JTC and NParks sank eight reef structures on bare sand off Small Sister's Island; by February 2022 the two left unplanted carried 95 coral colonies from seven genera - Space Daily
Nature's patience outpaced human intervention: untouched reef structures attracted more coral than their carefully planted neighbors.
The Planet Mercury Appears to Have Shrunken Drastically, "Like a Balloon Left Out in the Cold" - Futurism
Scientists say that the planet Mercury has been actively shrinking over the billions of years that it's orbited the Sun.
Beyond Golden Hour: How to Take Better Landscape Photos All Day - PetaPixel
Discover how to take better landscape photos beyond golden hour with Matt Suess’s tips for shooting from dawn to dark, even in harsh midday light.
California Scientist Looking for Frogs Finds a 10,000-Year-Old Mastodon Tooth - Yahoo
A scientist working on a project for threatened frogs ended up finding something much larger. Brigid Lynch discovered a fossilized mastodon tooth in a Califo...
Feather Preserved in Dinosaur Dung Could Explain Why Birds Survived Mass Extinction - Good News Network
A dinosaur ate a bird around 66 million years ago, and its dung preserved the best example of a feather ever found from the dinosaur age.
The surprising history of woolly rhinos: They weren't always creatures of the frozen north - phys.org
Woolly rhinoceroses (Coelodonta antiquitatis) were fascinating creatures: giant, lumbering Ice Age beasts with thick fur and massive horns that died out about 11,000 years ago. Previous genetic studies had left open the question of whether their genetic diver…
Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar Over Webb Telescope’s ‘Little Red Dots.’ - Quanta Magazine
The James Webb Space Telescope spots mysterious “little red dots” everywhere. A bold new theory suggests they’re suns dozens of times larger than our entire solar system.
No cities on the moon — there isn't enough water, scientists say (op-ed) - Space
Even a small city would run dry after just a decade or so.
Chemistry textbooks have been getting this wrong for nearly 100 years - Science Daily
A foundational chemistry concept found in textbooks for almost 100 years may have been taught incorrectly. Researchers say the inductive effect in neutral molecules appears to extend only across one chemical bond, rather than gradually weakening over three or…
Look up Monday for the crescent Moon and brilliant Venus - WRAL
Skywatchers can catch a thin crescent moon near exceptionally bright Venus on Monday evening as the planet approaches its greatest brilliance.
Scientists Can Predict Where the Next Devastating Earthquake Will Hit - Yahoo News Canada
Although predicting the timing of seismic catastrophes remains tricky, these geophysicists’ algorithm could help communities located near subduction zones.
Ultracold cesium atoms reveal Bethe strings predicted nearly a century ago - Phys.org
In 1931, physicist Hans Bethe predicted that, in certain one-dimensional quantum systems, particles can bind together to form multi-particle states known as Bethe strings. Unlike ordinary molecules, which are held together by chemical bonds, Bethe strings ari…
Bizarre galactic radio source remains active for two decades with no detectable X-rays - Phys.org
Astronomers have identified a peculiar radio transient in the Milky Way that has remained active for more than two decades, defying the behavior expected of known classes of galactic radio sources. The paper posted to the arXiv preprint server on Aug. 21 disc…
Is there a hidden 'Planet 9' in our solar system? - Space
For more than a century, astronomers have been captivated by the idea that an undiscovered planet could be lurking in the furthest reaches of our solar system.
Scientists Say the Universe Isn’t Slowing Down After All - SciTechDaily
The universe still appears to be expanding at an accelerating rate, despite a recent study that suggested it may have started slowing down.
62 Facts About The Universe And Space That Sound Completely Impossible But Are Actually True - Bored Panda
Even though our universe is around 13.8 billion years old, it’s constantly growing, which is why most of us can barely keep up with all of its changes. Almost 95% of the cosmos still remains unknown to humankind, which makes it all the more mysterious and int…
James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble discover 27 puzzling new objects orbiting the sun far beyond Neptune - Space
These observations push Hubble's and JWST's abilities to the limit.
Thirty-nine of the 47 registered Beefalo whose genomes were sequenced carry no detectable bison ancestry, including the foundation bull that sold for $2.5 million in 1975 and whose pedigree recorded him as more than a third bison - Space Daily
The American Beefalo Association defines the breed as three-eighths bison. A genome-wide survey of frozen semen, drawn largely from animals collected at or near the founding of the breed, found that not one Beefalo in the data set meets the standard, and foun…
Scotland's Forth Road Bridge hangs from two main cables containing 11,618 steel wires apiece, but inspectors found corrosion running all the way into their centers and an estimated 8 to 10 percent loss of strength — engineers now pump dry air through the c - Space Daily
A half-century-old Scottish bridge is slowly unraveling from the inside, one invisible wire at a time, forcing engineers into a desperate race to hear failure before it arrives.
The James Webb Space Telescope has found the most distant galaxy ever seen, at the dawn of the cosmos. Again. - BBC Sky at Night Magazine
At a redshift of z = 14.44, MoM-z14 usurps the former record holder JADES-GS-z14-0. Quick guide to Webb's discovery.
University of Oklahoma paleontologists identified only the second crinoid fossil ever found with preserved soft tissue — the tube feet of Dendrocrinus simcoensis, dated to about 450 million years ago and spotted in a small museum collection in Montreal - Space Daily
A student at the University of Oklahoma spotted pinhead-sized structures on a crinoid fossil sitting in a small Montreal museum. They turned out to be the tube feet of Dendrocrinus simcoensis — only the second crinoid ever found with preserved soft tissue, an…
Rings aren’t exclusive to giant planets: Chariklo, an icy body only about 250 kilometres across—shorter than Tasmania is long—carries two narrow rings, and Webb observations suggest they are changing on timescales of years. - Space Daily
Webb data indicate Chariklo's dense inner ring grew more opaque while its tenuous outer ring faded, though wavelength-dependent grain behaviour remains an alternative explanation.
About 176,000 years ago, Neanderthals built enormous rings from broken stone formations 336 meters inside a French cave — more than two tonnes of material arranged in total darkness for a purpose archaeologists still cannot explain - Space Daily
The discovery forces archaeologists to reconsider what Neanderthals were capable of—and what drove them into the deepest darkness.
Bacteria at a plant in Grangemouth eat the leftovers of Scotland's whisky industry — almost 750,000 tons of spent barley and two billion liters of pot ale a year — and excrete acetone, ethanol and butanol, with the butanol close enough to gasoline to burn in an - Space Daily
Scotland's whisky makers have accidentally created a renewable fuel source—if they can figure out what to do with billions of liters of industrial waste.
The universe's first stars probably ignited 100–250 million years after the Big Bang and died within a few million years. Their ancient light can still reach Earth, but individual stars are so distant and rare that none has been conclusively identified—althoug - Space Daily
Population III stars remain inferred rather than individually confirmed. Extreme cluster lensing may give Webb the magnification needed to isolate one ancient, metal-free source.
Scientists find evidence for an ancient supercontinent that covered 80 percent of Earth's surface - Yahoo
A new global isotopic map has revealed vast fragments of ancient Gondwanan crust buried beneath younger mountain belts across Asia, Europe and North America,...
Behavioral scientist shares 10 questions that will make people fall madly ‘in like’ with you - Yahoo
A Harvard researcher shares 10 questions backed by science that can make you instantly more likable in conversation.
Thawing Permafrost Is Releasing Carbon, but Something Unexpected Happens - SciTechDaily
Much of the ancient carbon released from thawing Arctic permafrost appears to end up trapped in seabed sediments rather than quickly returning to the atmosphere.
Luminescence dating pushes age of South Dakota's Mammoth Site back by more than 100,000 years - Phys.org
Deep within an ancient sinkhole lie the remains of dozens of mammoths, prehistoric wanderers who waded into the warm springs to their deaths. These deaths had long been accepted as having occurred roughly 26,000 years ago, but new dates published in the journ…
Gravitational-wave analysis narrows the search for black hole impostors - phys.org
Black holes are regions of spacetime where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. When two black holes orbit each other and merge, they produce gravitational waves (i.e., ripples in spacetime) that can resemble those emitted by mergers…
Japan's Mars moon project explained in lecture - nhk.or.jp
An expert on Mars has given a lecture in central Japan to raise awareness of a Japanese project to explore one of the red planet's satellites.
Researchers pinpoint key early-universe measurement with record precision - phys.org
An international team, including researchers from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, has reached a major milestone in "precision cosmology" by measuring the amount of helium created in the universe's first five minutes with unprecedented accuracy.
How to Play IBM Stock as It Teams Up with NASA to Launch a New Open-Source Model - barchart.com
Scientists Find a Hidden Rule Guiding Evolution - ScienceAlert
The basics of evolution are pretty straightforward to grasp: organisms better equipped to survive and reproduce tend to have the advantage over others.
Your 80-year-old self will thank you for doing these 5 simple midlife exercises - BikeRadar
The functional movements you should still be doing after 50 – and why they matter
