New England’s abandoned stone walls are as iconic of the region as lobster pots, town greens, sap buckets and autumn leaves. They seem to be everywhere; a lattice of dry, lichen-encrusted stone ridges separating a patch of otherwise moist soil. Stone walls can be found here and there in other states, but in New England… Read More »
Grizzly bears will be reintroduced to Washington state’s North Cascades mountain range, the federal government said this week; This decision came after years of bitterly divided debate. But given that the complex process requires trapping the bears, transporting them by truck and transporting them by helicopter from British Columbia or northwestern Montana, it could still… Read More »
This article was first published at: Speech. The publication was contributed to the article by Space.com. Expert Voices: Commentaries and Insights. Jonti Horner He is an astronomer and astrobiologist based at the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, Queensland. On the heels of the disappointing Green Comet, astronomers have discovered a new comet that has… Read More »
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — From ancient fertilizer methods in Zimbabwe to new greenhouse technology in Somalia, farmers across the African continent heavily reliant on agriculture are looking to the past and the future to respond to climate change. Africa, with the world’s youngest population, faces the worst impacts of a warming planet while contributing least… Read More »
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. Scientists can extract surprising information about the past from a grain of bone. Analysis of ancient DNA extracted from human remains has illuminated the characteristics and ancestors of historical individuals… Read More »
Late last year, NASA scientists launched a highly anticipated space mission. Essentially, they launched a spacecraft towards an asteroid that may have been made entirely of metal; It’s a rare combination – at least near our solar system. The robot adventurer’s name is Psyche, and her namesake is the giant rock that guides her journey:… Read More »
After working for five months to restore communication with the furthest launched human-made object in existence, NASA announced this week that the Voyager 1 probe has finally called home. For the engineers and scientists working on NASA’s longest-duration mission in space, it was a moment of joy and intense relief. “We all went in that… Read More »
Apparently, the so-called “great instability” event that caused chaos between planets gas giants Their advance through space until they settled into the orbits we know today occurred between 60 and 100 million years after its birth. solar system. This is the result of careful scientific detective work that establishes a connection to some kind of… Read More »
About a trillion tiny particles called neutrinos pass through you every second. These “remnant” neutrinos created during the Big Bang exist throughout the universe, but they can’t harm you. In fact, in your entire life, only one of them is likely to touch an atom in your body. Most neutrinos produced by objects such as… Read More »
Scientists suggest that some dead stars made of the densest material in the known universe, called “neutron stars”, may serve as traps for dark matter particles that crash into each other at high speeds and annihilate each other. The crew says the destruction process will likely heat the dead stars from the inside out. Dark… Read More »