Category Archives: Science

Hundreds of mountain goats flew to their new homes. Very few survived.

For three summers, wildlife managers wrestled mountain goats in Washington state’s Olympic National Park, blindfolded them, and then flew them into remote areas of the state’s Cascade Mountain Range. This was an ambitious project to increase the goat population in an area where goat populations were once widespread. Researchers released a total of 325 goats… Read More »

Experts evaluate after death on Singapore Airlines plane

One passenger died and 30 others were injured on a Singapore Airlines flight that hit “severe turbulence”, authorities said Tuesday, but experts say such deaths are rare, even as researchers warn climate change could cause more extreme cases of turbulence. The National Transportation Safety Board said that since 2009, the United States has not had… Read More »

Do all planets have magnetic fields?

Red and blue lines emerge from Earth’s north pole. One of the defining characteristics of the Earth is its magnetic field. It creates a protective shield against high-energy particles thrown by. Sun and thus it could be argued that it provided a safer place for life to develop into the complex array of organisms we… Read More »

Rare Lunar Phenomenon May Reveal Stonehenge’s Connection to the Moon

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. For those gathered for centuries at Stonehenge, the majestic prehistoric monument that dominated the Salisbury plains of south-west England for nearly 4,500 years, it was probably obvious how the sun may have influenced the design… Read More »

How I used modern astronomy to investigate the ancient Egyptian sky goddess and her connection to the Milky Way.

This article was first published at: Speech. The publication was contributed to the article by Space.com. Expert Voices: Commentaries and Insights. Or Graur He is associate professor of Astrophysics at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation at the University of Portsmouth, honorary associate professor at University College London (UCL) and research fellow at the American… Read More »

The James Webb Space Telescope may have solved the mystery of a puffy planet. Here’s how

A surprisingly low reservoir of methane could explain how a planet around a nearby star has become strangely swollen, according to new observations. James Webb Space Telescope (JWST(). The finding shows that planets’ atmospheres can swell to significant amounts without using esoteric theories of planet formation, astronomers say. “The Webb data tells us that planets… Read More »

Perseverance rover’s Mars rock sample may contain best evidence of possible ancient life

The chief scientist of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is excited about the material stored in the rover’s sample tubes, both falling on the Martian surface and on the rover itself as it rotates inside Jezero Crater. Considering the Martian samples Perseverance has collected so far, could one of those samples be what the rover was… Read More »

These Mexicans are trying to save the axolotl volcano, a beloved and endangered amphibian

MEXICO CITY — Leonidas Otlica Reyes is suffering from the drought in the town of Río Frío de Juárez in the state of Mexico. Rains here have been decreasing for a year, causing streams to turn into swampy puddles crossing the arid landscape. . “We have a big problem right now with no rain. There… Read More »