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Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin A side-by-side comparison of monsoon rains over India as seen by an existing global weather model … [+] (left) and the new IBM GRAF model (right). IBM/The Weather Company Some of the most powerful hurricanes begin with thunderstorms that move off of Africa. What if a

A New England Patriots’ player lifts the Vince Lombardi trophy, after the NFL Super Bowl 53 football … [+] game against the Los Angeles Rams in 2019. ASSOCIATED PRESS Veterans Day was celebrated earlier this week in the United States. Earlier this month, a group of disabled vets were among those helping clean up 4,000

The remnant of supernova 1987a, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud some 165,000 light years away.… [+] When they reach peak brightness, a type II (core-collapse) supernova will be more than twice as bright as a type Ia supernova ever will be, and will emit both neutrinos and light simultaneously, but that interact differently with

FILE PHOTO: The Boeing logo is pictured at the Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition fair (LABACE) at Congonhas Airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil August 14, 2018. Picture taken August 14, 2018. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Boeing’s multibillion dollar contract to build U.S. astronaut capsules received an “unnecessary” extension from NASA, a watchdog

In 1959, comedian Tom Lehrer set the periodic table of the elements to the tune of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General”, and created an instant classic that has been watched and shared by chemistry students and teachers over the years.  One notable performance of the song was a

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin The plague is still around, but chances of another outbreak are slim. Getty Topline: One of the deadliest pandemics in human history, the Black Death plague, has cropped up again with two cases recently reported in China—although chances of another global pandemic are slim to none,

HUAILAI, China (Reuters) – China on Thursday successfully completed a crucial landing test in northern Hebei province ahead of a historic unmanned exploration mission to Mars next year. A lander for China’s Mars mission is seen after a hovering-and-obstacle avoidance test at a test facility in Huailai, Hebei province, China November 14, 2019. Picture taken

Anaa Atoll is nestled in the Tuamotu archipelago in French Polynesia Geordie Torr The breathtakingly tranquil waters of Anaa, one of many French Polynesian isles that dot the South Pacific, belie the island’s turbulent past. Most recently, a 1983 hurricane devastated the coral-fringed atoll and its lavish supply of coconut trees that gifted the residents

A view of lab-made human skin, made from skin cells and collagen, at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore November 11, 2019. REUTERS/Yiming Woo SINGAPORE (Reuters) – A piece of skin about the size of your thumbnail can be printed in less than a minute, scientists in Singapore say, a game-changing step for the future of

A star was ejected from the Milky Way galaxy by the supermassive black hole at its center. Sergey Koposov About five million years ago, when our earliest Australopithecine ancestors had just branched off from the ancestors of modern chimpanzees, a cosmic catastrophe occurred. A star from the Milky Way galaxy experienced an encounter that would doom

Where we are, where we’ve been, and where we’re headed impacts everything else in our lives. When we examine the movements and decisions people make in their physical environments, we see patterns of human behavior. The science of mapping and understanding patterns critical to business and government is powered by a geographic information system, or

This old-style television set, complete with antennae to pick up broadcast signals, is considered… [+] tremendously archaic by modern standards. Yet these antennae are, in some sense, a very specific type of radio telescope, and can be used by a clever-enough scientist to actually reveal the Big Bang. Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via

While scientists nearly universally believe the theory of the Big Bang is true, there remain details … [+] to be worked out. A new paper might help out. Getty Humanity has long been fascinated by the question of how the universe began, with many ideas proposed over the millennia. Over the last century, researchers have developed

I am constantly scanning the sky. It’s just what I do. On my commute home from the University of Georgia yesterday, I saw something that always excites me. I quickly grabbed my phone, rolled down the window, and snapped the picture below. It is a Sundog. Sundogs have special meaning to me because I think

The full suite of what’s present today in the Universe owes its origins to the hot Big Bang. More… [+] fundamentally, the Universe we have today can only come about because of the properties of spacetime and the laws of physics. Although the Universe is expanding, the total amount of Universe we can observe is

A LiDAR image of a swamp near Manoa, in Rondônia State, Brazil; one of Pachama’s reforestation … [+] projects in South America. LiDAR images feed into machine learning technology to help estimate carbon sequestration forests Pachama When Argentinian entrepreneur Diego Saez Gil found himself between ventures in 2017, he went to the Madre de Dios

The launch took place this morning in Florida. SpaceX SpaceX has launched its first batch of 60 operational satellites in its Starlink mega constellation, as it prepares to blanket Earth in thousands of satellites and beam internet around the globe. Today, Monday, November 11 at 9.56 A.M. Eastern Time, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin On May 9, 2016, the prior transit of Mercury occurred, and was photographed many times on a… [+] practically continuous basis by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Transits of Mercury are rare, occurring approximately during only 4% of all inferior conjunctions (when it passes between Earth and

Kristine Davis, a spacesuit engineer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, wearing a ground prototype of … [+] NASA’s new Exploration Extravehicular Mobility Unit (xEMU), is seen during a demonstration of the suit, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2019 at NASA Headquarters. NASA/Joel Kowsky If NASA can transcend today’s fractious and uncertain political climate, there’s no reason that

It’s more than passing strange that in an age of so much scientific and medical progress so many people remain in the dark about the science of their own private parts. That this can be a cause of embarrassment is one of the least of the harmful consequences of such ignorance. As Dr. Jen Gunter