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 »
By Jennifer Rigby and Julie Steenhuysen LONDON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – Scientists studying the new strain of mpox that has emerged from the Democratic Republic of Congo say the virus is spreading faster than expected and is often in areas where experts lack the funding and equipment to properly track the virus. That means there are still… 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. The pyramids, pharaohs and artifacts of ancient Egypt capture the imagination, rekindling wonder at the distant past in each generation. Today, archaeologists are still making fascinating discoveries in the Nile… Read More »
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A sudden steam eruption from a geyser basin in Yellowstone National Park sent people fleeing to safety as basketball-sized rocks flew overhead, highlighting a little-known danger that scientists hope to one day be able to predict. There were no injuries after Tuesday’s hydrothermal explosion in Biscuit Basin sent dozens of people… Read More »
Storm chasing for science can be exciting and stressful — we know, because we do it. It’s also been important for advancing today’s understanding of how hurricanes form and behave. The movie “Twister,” released in 1996, brought storm-chasing scientists into the public spotlight and inspired a generation of atmospheric scientists. With the release of the… Read More »
The hunt for dark matter is about to get a whole lot cooler. Scientists are developing super-cold quantum technology to hunt for the universe’s most elusive and mysterious stuff—one of the biggest mysteries in science right now. Despite there being about six times more dark matter in our universe than ordinary matter, scientists don’t know… Read More »
Today, astronomers and space enthusiasts around the world collectively marvel at our mercury presence in the universe, especially as it drifts amidst large asteroids like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. June 30 marks Asteroid Day, an annual holiday to reflect on the possibility of a planet-destroying space rock hitting… Read More »
I remember learning to forecast the weather in college in the late 2000s. My classmates and I would draw maps using existing weather systems and then look at satellite data to help paint the picture of what would happen in the coming hours and days. NOAA’s weather satellites were good back then, but compared to… 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 »
The Earth’s warming rate will reach an all-time high in 2023, with 92% of last year’s astonishing record-breaking heat caused by humans, top scientists have calculated. The group of 57 scientists from around the world used United Nations-approved methods to examine what was behind last year’s deadly heat explosion. They said that despite a higher… Read More »