Astronomers exploring the distant universe with NASA’s most powerful telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, have found a class of galaxies that challenge even the most talented creatures at mimicking—like the mimic octopus. This creature can imitate other marine animals to avoid predators. Need to be a flatfish? No problem. Need to be a sea… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. In H.G. Wells’ 1897 science fiction novel “The Invisible Man,” the hero invents a serum that controls how the cells in his body bend light, making them transparent. More than 100 years later, scientists have… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more Jupiter’s moon Ganymede may have shifted on its axis after being hit by a large asteroid about 4 billion years ago, according to a new study. The largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede is… Read More »
Rancho Palos Verdes, a coastal town in the Los Angeles area, could be described as a geologically ticking time bomb. The wealthy city sits atop sheer cliffs overlooking the Pacific Ocean, which has been slowly shifting and sinking for centuries. Now, that movement is accelerating. In past years, the ground has slid downward at a… Read More »
The world creates 57 million tonnes of plastic pollution each year, spreading from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintops and into the insides of people’s bodies, with more than two-thirds of it coming from the Global South, according to a new study. Each year, about 52 million tonnes of pollution is enough to fill… Read More »
When the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020, humans were the only species with reported cases of the disease. While early genetic analyses pointed to horseshoe bats as evolutionary hosts for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, no reports had yet emerged indicating that it could be transmitted from humans… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An artist’s depiction of a black hole releasing jets. | Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech An experiment that uses proton beams to probe how plasma and magnetic fields interact may have solved the mystery of how quasars and other active supermassive black… Read More »
On a 95-degree day this summer, New York City’s Third Avenue Bridge, which connects the Bronx and Manhattan, remained open for hours. As heat and flooding scorched the Midwest, a steel railroad bridge connecting Iowa to South Dakota collapsed under surging water. In Lewiston, Maine, a bridge was closed after the pavement buckled from the… Read More »
Sadly, the JOIDES Resolution, also known as JR, may have set sail for the last time. It docked in Amsterdam on August 2, 2024, with no clear path to raise the $72 million per year needed to operate the ship. Most of that funding comes from the US National Science Foundation, which announced in 2023… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A Rocket Lab Electron rocket launches an Earth-observing radar satellite for Japanese company Synspective on August 2, 2024. | Source: Rocket Lab This article was originally published on The Conversation, which contributed it to Space.com’s Expert Voices: Op-Ed &… Read More »