Weather satellites routinely beam images of the Earth using radio waves GETTY IMAGES Signals from weather satellites could be disrupted by 5G mobile data networks in the US, meteorologists have warned. US forecasters have expressed concerns about 5G radio interference before, but now a group of scientific bodies has written […]
A 2016 NASA illustration depicts a different brown dwarf, oribiting further away from its host star. Credit: NASA Once or twice a day, a strange object in the Milky Wayblinks at us. Now, astronomers think they know why. The object is called NGTS-7, and to most telescopes it looks like a […]
An image of the Crab Nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Scientists recently detected the most energetic photons ever seen, and they originate in this nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester, A. Loll (ASU) High up on the Tibetan plateau, scientists just measured the most energetic light ever seen. […]
Scientists and shipboard crew await the arrival of a new sediment core onboard research vessel RV Sonne in 2016. Credit: T. Schwestermann Active margins, where an oceanic plate slides under a continental plate, may cause earthquakes and tsunamis. Further, they are known for shifting sediments from margin slopes into deep […]
The Mount Ulawun volcano is one of the world’s most hazardous Papua New Guinea’s volatile Ulawun volcano—designated one of the world’s most hazardous—erupted Wednesday, spewing lava high in the air and sending residents fleeing. A pilot for Niugini Helicopters flying near the crater witnessed a column of lava spurting vertically […]
Researchers have discovered 56 previously uncharted subglacial lakes beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet bringing the total known number of lakes to 60. Although these lakes are typically smaller than similar lakes in Antarctica, their discovery demonstrates that lakes beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet are much more common than previously thought. […]
Scientists have tracked seasonal rise and fall in backround methane levels but haven’t been able to establish a pattern for the transient plumes The mystery of the Martian methane continues. NASA’s Curiosity Rover last week detected the highest ever levels of the colorless, odorless gas over the course of its seven year mission on […]
A visualization showing predictions of what patterns of cosmic microwave background – radiation left over from the Big Bang – would look like in different universes, with the patterns of our own universe depicted in a single point. Credit: Cornell University As cosmologists ponder the universe—and other possible universes—the data […]
This was only the third time a Falcon Heavy had flown REUTERS Nasa has put a miniaturised atomic clock in orbit that it believes can revolutionise deep-space navigation. About the size of a toaster, the device is said to have 50 times the stability of existing space clocks, such as […]
Olga Dudko uses a charge cord to demonstrate genomic interactions within the nucleus of a cell. Credit: Michelle Fredricks, UC San Diego Physical Sciences The Goldilocks of fairy-tale fame knew something about porridge. It needed to be just right—neither too hot nor too cold. Same with furniture—neither too hard nor […]