WASHINGTON (AP) — A breaking new study finds that human-caused climate change has turned up the thermostat and increased the likelihood of this month’s killer heat that scorched the American Southwest, Mexico and Central America. Sizzling daytime temperatures that triggered cases of heatstroke in some parts of the United States were 35 times hotter and… Read More »
When it comes to tools, the more they are used, the less reliable they become. And of course, by the way Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph Experiment (LASCO) device at NASA and European Space Agency‘S SOHO (Solar and Heliospheric Observatory) The spacecraft did an excellent job providing us with images. recent strong geomagnetic solar stormsis… Read More »
Summer will officially arrive in the Northern Hemisphere on Thursday, June 20 at 4:51 PM EDT (2051 GMT) – the June Solstice. At that moment, Sun It will reach the northernmost point of the celestial equator. To be more precise, when the solstice occurs, the sun will appear to shine directly overhead at a point… Read More »
K’ahk’ Uti’ Witz’ K’awiil knew his past. The Mayan ruler’s dynasty ruled Copan, a city-state near the border of present-day Honduras and Guatemala, for 11 generations. From the fifth to the seventh centuries AD, scribes transcribed the genealogies of their ancestors into manuscripts and engraved them on stone monuments throughout the city. Around 650, a… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft was preparing to celebrate its biggest achievement this month: launching two NASA astronauts on a round trip to the International Space Station, proving that the long-delayed and over-budget capsule was ready for… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers are witnessing a sight never before seen in the universe: the awakening of a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy. In late 2019, a team of astronomers noticed an otherwise… Read More »
Despite the ongoing bird flu epidemic in dairy cows, the popularity of raw milk has increased further. Proponents claim that raw milk has superior health benefits to pasteurized milk. But there is little evidence to support these claims, and the risk of serious disease is much higher. Food scientists Juan Silva and Joel Komakech of… Read More »
Lynn Conway may hold the record for the longest delay between being unfairly dismissed and receiving an apology for it. In 1968, IBM, a company that now covers its logo with a rainbow flag every June for Pride Month, fired Conway, who died at age 86 on June 9, 2024, when he expressed his intention… Read More »
It was a shock when British doctor and well-known TV presenter Michael Mosley was found dead after a walk in scorching heat on the Greek island of Symi earlier this month. But this is one of a series of tourist deaths and disappearances in Greece, which suffered a strong heatwave in early summer, with temperatures… Read More »
Just 900 million years after the Big Bang, a pair of quasars have been discovered spiraling towards a massive merger, illuminating the “cosmic dawn”. They are the first quasar The couple was detected this far back in cosmic time. Quasars are growing rapidly supermassive black holes in the nuclei of the hyperactive galaxies. Showers of… Read More »