Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Plaque placed on the volcano Ok commemorating the first vanished Icelandic glacier. Rice University/Dominic Boyer/Cymene Howe Okjökull glacier was pronounced virtually dead by scientists in 2014 when the ice was no longer thick enough to move. Located northeast of the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik atop of

Rubidium fountain clocks at the US Naval Observatory Chad Orzel I went to DC last week to give a talk for the Smithsonian Associates lecture program, based on my most recent book, Breakfast with Einstein. One of the examples I used for how quantum physics shows up in an ordinary morning was my alarm clock,

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin In 2011, a Saturnian storm developed that wound up encircling the entire planet. Although this storm has been observed to recur once every 20-30 years since the late 1800s, the 2011 event is the largest storm in the recorded history of the Solar System. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science

“E-Ferry Ellen”, the world’s largest all-electric ferry, has made its maiden voyage connecting the island of Aerø, population 6,000, to the rest of Denmark. The route is 22 nautical miles long. The ferry, which now connects the Danish ports of Søby and Fynshav, was built at the shipyard on the island of Als through a partnership between Aerø Municipality and

One free-roaming cat appears to have destroyed an entire sanctuary for threatened seabirds in the southwestern part of Australia, according to a recent study “Twinnies.”An adult Australian fairy tern, Sternula nereis nereis, broods her two chicks on the beach at Mandurah Estuary in Western Australia.(Credit: Claire Greenwell / Murdoch University) Claire Greenwell / Murdoch University

Hazel Bishop designed and tested lipstick and other cosmetic formulas in the kitchen of her small apartment before launching her company in 1948. Library of Congress, via https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31811092 Chemist Hazel Bishop, born on August 17, 1906, showed us all how to bounce back from defeat, make something amazing out of a side-hustle, and help win

L.A. Zoo’s science, research, and captive breeding expertise is often utilized in the community and around the world to save endangered species in the wild. Recchio’s team breeds the assurance colony of Southern mountain yellow-legged frog tadpoles in a quiet, temperature-controlled, biosecure closet-like shed that’s big enough for about three people, a few dozen adult

ULA launching another WGS satellite in 2017, a mission some experts say the future Space Force could someday perform with low-cost small satellites from Low Earth Orbit. Photo By: Courtesy of United Launch Alliance The late summer heat is almost unbearable in Logan, Utah. Yet we still come in waves of thousands this year, to

An illustration of an active black hole, one that accretes matter and accelerates a portion of it outwards in two perpendicular jets. The normal matter undergoing an acceleration like this describes how quasars work extremely well. The matter that falls into a black hole, of any variety, will be responsible for additional growth in both

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine speaks to media during a visit to NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility where engineers are preparing to add the final section to the core stage of the rocket that will power NASA’s Artemis 1 lunar mission, in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., August 15, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Bachman WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA Administrator Jim

Specialists are eating the world. Tiger parents push their kids to get an early start and develop enough expertise to distinguish themselves for admissions committees from preschool through college. Academic departments push exquisite depth, seeking scholars to drill down and become world authorities in ever more narrow subjects. Corporate hiring managers seek candidates for roles

Crew inspecting System 001/B. The Ocean Cleanup The Twilight Zone isn’t a place you necessarily want to be. Unless maybe it’s the final step toward cleaning up tons of plastic pollution in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Boyan Slat, an inventor who began an ambitious ocean cleanup of the patch last year, says the effort may

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jupiter, the solar system’s largest planet, may have been smacked head-on by an embryonic planet 10 times Earth’s mass not long after being formed, a monumental crash with apparent lasting effects on the Jovian core, scientists said on Thursday. The collision between a young Jupiter and a massive still-forming protoplanet in the

Virgin Galactic’s Gaia lounge at its new spaceport Virgin Galactic 2019 Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic unveiled the interiors of its new New Mexico spaceport Thursday, giving the public a glimpse of how the first $250,000-ticket tourists will spend their time before boarding suborbital space flights next year. “We’re on the home stretch now,” said Virgin

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The head of NASA is set to announce plans on Friday to name the U.S. space agency’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama as headquarters for its human lunar lander program, signaling progress in its drive to put astronauts back on the moon by 2024, three people familiar with the plan said.

The bioluminescent ‘flashlight fish’ (Anomalops katoptron) is equipped with a specialized light organ under each eye. These organs are home to light-releasing bacteria which give off a ‘blink’ of light at the discretion of the flashlight fish. The flashlight fish uses organs housing light-emitting bacteria for bioluminescence. While the bacteria themselves are always producing light, the

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Genetic research that reconstructed the past population dynamics of the cave bear, a prominent prehistoric denizen of Europe, implicates Homo sapiens rather than climate cooling in the Ice Age extinction of these brawny plant-loving beasts. The skull of an extinct cave bear from the Natural History Museum in Belgrade, Serbia, is seen

Bleach may be great for cleaning floors but not the inside of your body. (Photo: Getty Images) Getty About to drink the Miracle Mineral Solution? Well, put drinking this “miracle” on ice. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning about the Miracle Mineral Solution and similar products: “If you’re drinking ‘Miracle’ or ‘Master’ Mineral

This is what happens when a star turns itself inside out in less than a second. NASA/CXC/SAO It’s one thing to say that supernova explosions are bright. Is another thing completely to understand what that actually means. So let’s go on a little adventure. Supernovas are the deaths of the most massive stars in the

Dr. Sonia Batten, an oceanographer at the Marine Biological Association, first suspected pink salmon were causing problems in the North Pacific when she noticed a ‘see-saw’ effect between populations of pink salmon and the tiny shrimp-like animals they feed on; pink salmon are abundant in odd-numbered years, while their zooplankton shrimp-snacks are abundant in even-numbered years. Catch of pink salmon