Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin A river of ice flows from the Greenland Ice Sheet down a fjord and out to sea Credit: Laura Faye Tenenbaum When scientists in the 1990s measured the amount of ice melting off the Greenland Ice Sheet, they observed it losing 25 billion tons of ice
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Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Just fill in the blanks Free for commercial use (via PIxabay) Let’s say you’re a scientist, and you just got a call from a reporter asking to interview you about something that’s popped up in the news. Maybe the reporter is looking for an outside perspective.
FILE PHOTO: Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, founder and chief executive of online fashion retailer Zozo, who has been chosen as the first private passenger by SpaceX, attends a news conference at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo, Japan, October 9, 2018. REUTERS/Toru Hanai TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa’s search for a
Psychedelics have been a mainstay for a millennia and appreciated in the counter-culture for decades. In 2020, whether consuming, investing, or both, mushrooms are having a moment. PsychedeliTech, a ground-breaking new conference, incubator and discovery platform for psychedelic medicine will host Rick Doblin, Ph.D., Founder and Executive Director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin The wolf moon, the first full moon of 2020, juxtaposed with street lights in London. (Photo by Yui … [+] Mok/PA Images via Getty Images) PA Images via Getty Images Clear skies across much of Europe on Friday, January 10 heralded excellent views of the first
Aurora Borealis, the Northern Lights, over the Vestrahorn mountain in the east of Iceland. (Photo by … [+] Owen Humphreys/PA Images via Getty Images) PA Images via Getty Images You might say it was a bit shocking when sensors at the Polarlightcenter in northern Norway picked up electrical currents flowing through the ground on the
Black holes will devour whatever matter they encounter. Although this is a great way for black holes… [+] to grow, it seems paradoxical, since none of the matter will ever appear to cross the event horizon from the perspective of an outside observer. X-ray: NASA/CXC/UNH/D.Lin et al, Optical: CFHT, Illustration: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss Every Milky Way-sized galaxy
People gather to watch a “blood moon” eclipse in Melbourne on July 28, 2018. (Photo by WILLIAM WEST … [+] / AFP) AFP via Getty Images Did you see Friday’s “Wolf Moon Eclipse,” better known as a penumbral lunar eclipse? Visible from Europe, Africa, Asia and parts of Australia, observers under clear skies saw a
In 2017, there were more than 20,000 work injuries involving ice, sleet, or snow that required at … [+] least one day away from work, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) Boston Globe via Getty Images When we think of outdoor occupational hazards, lightning is
Fire Truck Approaches Distant Smoke Getty Bushfires in Australia are raging on, marking the 5th month of relentless burning. Photos of singed koala feet and charred noses are perhaps the most heartbreaking. But everyone’s favorite furry, eucalyptus-nibbling, not-really-bears-but-actually-marsupials are only one of hundreds of species that have been plunged into desperation. With the staggering death
Luminar’s latest lidar sensor comes with new perception software and a novel subscription plan. Luminar (Updates to clarify subscription options in second paragraph.) Upstart lidar maker Luminar, with one of the most sophisticated laser sensors for self-driving cars, is expanding beyond hardware with the addition of much-needed commercial software and a computing system that makes
Justin Bieber revealed a Lyme Disease diagnosis on Instagram. (Photo by Jayne Kamin-Oncea/Getty … [+] Images) Getty Images Singer Justin Bieber just revealed on Instagram that he has both Lyme Disease and chronic mononucleosis. That’s a tough combo. Here’s the post: He accompanied the picture with the following statement: “While a lot of people kept
LONDON (Reuters) – A new type of therapy using feces and fake rubber hands may be able to help patients with obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) overcome their fears of touching contaminated surfaces, according to new research. A fake rubber hand used to help people who suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is seen in San
A young cluster of new stars, named Price-Whelan 1 (PW 1), is located 94,000 light-years away in the… [+] outskirts of our Milky Way, but was formed by material ejected from the two Magellanic Clouds interacting hundreds of millions of years ago. This new star association is the first evidence of new star formation arising
Blood proteins and molecular changes that occur in our blood could be used to assess our health and wellness and more specifically identify people at greater risk of age-related diseases, according to a new study by researchers at Stanford University and funded in part by NIH’s National Institute on Aging (NIA). 3d illustration universal blood,
Biologists are always learning new information about the genetic makeup of different species. At the end of last year, a group of researchers based in different labs in China, Belgium and the United States announced that they had sequenced the genome of the water lily. The DNA of a water lily holds information about water
DETROIT/LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – Self-driving cars employ lidar, a remote sensing technology using pulsed laser light the way radar uses radio waves, and lidar makers waiting for the automotive market to take off are courting new customers who would use the technology for everything from monitoring cattle to helping a disc jockey synchronize dance music.
For the first time in almost two years, great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) have been spotted in False Bay! Verified by a City of Cape Town official, the shark was spotted at Seal Island on Tuesday morning. This is a difference from the past 20 months, where the waters were eerily calm from the aerial
(Reuters) – NASA is opening an independent investigation with Boeing over a software glitch that prevented its unmanned astronaut capsule from reaching the International Space Station in December, the agency said on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: One of Boeing Co’s CST-100 Starliner astronaut capsules is seen at a production facility in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., January
Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Tektite from China with regmaglypts, structures created by melting and ablation while falling in … [+] Earth’s atmosphere. D.Bressan Around 790,000 years ago, a large meteorite hit Earth. It is the most recent of this magnitude, and the impact was powerful enough to launch debris and