Classic sci-fi writer Jules Verne once imagined a whole subterranean landscape deep inside the planet, complete with lost prehistoric species and plant life. The book was aptly titled Journey to the Centre of the Earth. We might not actually find dinosaurs down there, but new research is revealing features in the underworld resembling structures on the
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The British Columbia Coroners Service has asked the public to help identify a foot found in West Vancouver, on the shores of the Salish Sea. It might sound like a gruesome find at first, but it’s actually a surprisingly common occurrence in these parts. Detached human feet in various states of decay have been appearing
Our Sun can let out some solar flare rip-snorters from time to time, but it’s actually pretty quiet when compared to some other stars out there. Particularly, it seems, turbulent young stars. And astronomers have just caught one belching out a real corker. It’s called JW 566, a young star about 389 parsecs (1,269 light-years)
It’s a puzzle piece that has eluded shark scientists for years: just why exactly did the ancient Otodus megalodon, the largest shark to ever swim in our planet’s oceans, disappear? While recent movies and mockumentaries have toyed with the idea that “the Meg” is still alive, it is unquestionably extinct according to marine biologists. Theories have
This article was first published in the SN Military.Space newsletter. If you would like to get our news and insights for national security space professionals every Tuesday, sign up here for your free subscription. During a recent conversation with a senior defense official about the changes coming to military space, he pointed out that under the proposed reorganization
A new study shows that Mars may very well be volcanically active. Nobody’s seen direct evidence of volcanism; no eruptions or magma or anything like that. Rather, the proof is in the water. In the past, Mars was a much warmer and wetter place. Now, Mars is still home to lots of water, mostly as
[Illustration] Life in the Ediacaran Sea.Open Source | Ryan Somma | Wikimedia Commons According to the fossil record, much of life as we know it today appeared on Earth nearly 540 million years ago in an event that paleontologists refer to as the Cambrian Explosion. The fossilized remains of many of these marine critters (such as
WASHINGTON — Small launch vehicle developer Relativity has added three people, all of whom previously held key positions at SpaceX, to its leadership team as it refines the technologies it will use on its rockets. Relativity announced Feb. 14 that it has hired Tim Buzza as a distinguished engineer. Buzza joined SpaceX months after its
Behind this sentence lies a solid bedrock of mathematics, one that has been shown to govern all human languages. Linguists have found the hoots and hollers, gestures and expressions used by chimpanzees obey some of the same basic principles, demonstrating the foundations of language have deep evolutionary roots. A study led by the University of
An invisible force is having an effect on our Universe. We can’t see it, and we can’t detect it – but we can observe how it interacts gravitationally with the things we can see and detect, such as light. Now an international team of astronomers has used one of the world’s most powerful telescopes to
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. It’s not enough. When it comes to the crisis of mounting plastic waste, we’re still coming up short on ways to plug the flow. Soon, we might be able to add ‘rewind’ to that list – thanks to a new technique for turning the polypropylene that makes up a proportion of plastic
In a sensational test of technological independence, Russia is making plans to cut off its internet from the rest of the world, with a giant ‘unplugging’ experiment that will affect over 100 million Russian internet users. The action – which the nation has boasted of doing for years – would be a temporary test, designed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A relatively complete skeleton of a long-necked, long-tailed plant-eater excavated from a rocky cliff above a Tanzanian river is providing insight into the early evolution of a dinosaur group that later included Earth’s largest-ever land animals. The Cretaceous Period dinosaur Mnyamawamtuka in its environmental setting is seen in this illustration released in
Sirius, also called the ‘Dog Star’, is just 8.6 light years distant.Getty Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky and the fifth closest star to our solar system, will be briefly occulted Monday by an asteroid hurtling around the Sun. The first time this event has ever been predicted by astronomers, it will be visible as
WASHINGTON — SpaceX has filed a protest over the award of a launch contract to United Launch Alliance for a NASA planetary science mission, claiming it could carry out the mission for significantly less money. The protest, filed with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) Feb. 11, is regarding a NASA procurement formally known as RLSP-35.
On shadowy paws in the dark of the night, the rare black leopard is rarely seen by human eyes. But now its breathtaking beauty has been captured in exquisite detail, thanks to trail cams and camera traps set up in Laikipia County in Kenya. San Diego Zoo caught the gorgeous animal on remote video cameras
Earth is getting a special celestial visitor this week in the shape of comet C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto – this sparkling, green-hued hunk of ice and minerals is already visible in the night sky through telescopes and even binoculars. It’s the first binocular comet of 2019 – which means a comet that’s visible from Earth through
Greenland is covered in one of the largest ice sheets on the planet, but underneath its frozen exterior, the landscape is more pockmarked than we once thought. Buried underneath two kilometres of ice, researchers think they have found a second huge impact crater, hiding in the northwest corner of the world’s largest island. As scientists
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Opportunity, a remarkably durable NASA rover designed to roll along the surface of Mars for three months, has stopped communicating with Earth after 15 years of service, officials said on Wednesday, ending a mission that astounded the U.S. space agency. Engineers lost contact with the solar-powered vehicle on June 10 during
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Opportunity took this self-portrait in December 2004NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell On Wednesday, NASA officially concluded the mission of its Opportunity rover. The spacecraft, which first landed on Mars in January 2004, was continuously operating on Mars providing valuable scientific data until NASA lost contact with it during a dust
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