The newly discovered Kupoupou stilwelli would have once swam in the waters around Chatham Island near New Zealand. Illustration by Jacob Blokland, Author provided A new species of extinct penguin has been discovered. It’s helping us bridge the gap between modern penguins and their counterparts from the Paleocene epoch – the 10-million-year period following […]
These large moons’ complex combination of properties could be best explained if they grew slowly from pebbles. The Galilean satellites Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto are the four largest moons of Jupiter. (Credit: NASA/JPL/DLR) Even in a backyard telescope, the four largest moons of Jupiter are big enough to be […]
Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than in the 1990s and is tracking the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s high-end climate warming scenario, which would see 40 million more people exposed to coastal flooding by 2100. A team of 96 polar scientists from 50 international organizations has produced the […]
The effects of the white spots increase in volume as they spread across the surface of the brain. Here marked in blue. Credit: NTNU Scarring in their brain’s white matter does more harm than previously thought. It’s quite possible that you are one of those people with white spots on […]
The midnight sun casts a golden glow on an iceberg and its reflection in Disko Bay, Greenland. Much of Greenland’s annual mass loss occurs through calving of icebergs such as this. Credit: Ian Joughin, University of Washington Greenland is losing ice seven times faster than in the 1990s and is […]
Blue Origin’s New Shepard space capsule and rocket on the pad at the company’s West Texas Launch Site in January 2019. The same rocket will launch the NS-12 mission on Dec. 11, 2019. (Image credit: Blue Origin) Editor’s update for 10:21 am ET: Blue Origin has called off its launch attempt […]
The ESA’s new, four-armed garbage-collecting robot is on a mission to clean up the atmosphere — and die trying. An artist’s rendering shows the ClearSpace-1 satellite using its robotic arms to capture the conical piece of space debris called Vespa. (Image: © ClearSpace) The largest garbage dump on Earth might […]
In a rapidly urbanizing world, the conversion of natural habitats into urban areas leads to a significant loss of biodiversity in cities. Credit: Pixabay / allemii Researchers assess direct and indirect effects of urban growth on a global scale. Leipzig/Halle/Arlington. In a rapidly urbanizing world, the conversion of natural habitats […]
A red giant (AGB star) produces heavy elements such as molybdenum and palladium, which form dust (red squares), while elements like cadmium and some palladium escape as gas. Supernova explosions also produce heavier elements and eject them into space as dust (blue triangles) and gas. In the interstellar medium, the […]
Anomalies in nuclear physics experiments may show signs of a new force. Shutterstock A team of scientists in Hungary recently published a paper that hints at the existence of a previously unknown subatomic particle. The team first reportedfinding traces of the particle in 2016, and they now report more traces in a different […]