Activists gather at the base of Mauna Kea to protest the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope. (Image: © Ronit Fahl/Zuma/Newscom) Astronomers at the Mauna Kea observatories in Hawaii are returning to work after pausing their operations in response to the gathering of thousands of activists over the past four weeks. The […]
The Milky Way: a pattern of stars, or a pattern of gaps? LCommons,uke Busellato/Wikimedia CC BY-SA Almost every person throughout the existence of humankind has looked up at the night sky and seen more than just a random scattering of light. Constellations of stars have helped us shape our own […]
People take photos as they walk along a hiking trail above Rio de Janeiro—part of a projected 8,000-kilometer trail across Brazil Luiz Pedreira walks with other hikers beneath the Atlantic Forest’s thick canopy in Brazil, where an 8,000-kilometre (5,000-mile) trail stretching the full length of the country is being opened […]
In this Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019, photo, evidence of a Cascadia earthquake’s awesome destructive power is visible at the beach in Neskowin, Ore. A “ghost forest” of Sitka spruces juts up from the beach in the tiny town. The trees were likely buried by tsunami debris 2,000 years earlier, and […]
Decades of uncontrolled and excessive depletion of groundwater reserves, rising sea-levels, and increasingly volatile weather patterns mean swathes of Jakarta have already started to disappear Time is running out for Jakarta. One of the fastest-sinking cities on earth, environmental experts warn that one third of it could be submerged by […]
Reference Article: Facts about Albert Einstein, his life and influence on multiple scientific fields. Portrait of Albert Einstein circa 1939. (Image: © MPI/Getty Images) Albert Einstein is often cited as one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century. His work continues to help astronomers study everything from gravitational […]
China’s Chang’e-4 lander as seen on the moon in a photograph released on July 9. (Image: © China Lunar Exploration Project) China’s Chang’e-4 mission has completed eight full days of science work on the far side of the moon — and in between the experiments, the lander and rover have sent home […]
Mechanical Engineer Brett Hobson with MBARI’s long-range autonomous vehicle before deployment. Credit: MBARI Every drop of seawater contains thousands of cells that can reveal the diversity of life in our ocean. Using a self-contained robotic laboratory and an autonomous underwater vehicle, MBARI scientists and engineers are developing advanced collection techniques […]
The destructive fire broke out in the early hours of Tuesday on Greece’s second-largest island, prompting the evacuation of four villages including Platana Greece deployed Thursday nearly 400 firefighters backed by EU firebombers to try to put out a massive wildfire on the island of Evia burning through a pristine […]
Turkey will on Saturday mark the anniversary of the 7.4-magnitude quake that hit Izmit—around 100 kilometres east of Istanbul—on August 17, 1999, leaving at least 17,400 people dead Twenty years after a devastating earthquake ravaged the northwest of Turkey, Istanbulites live with the knowledge that another “Big One” is unavoidable, […]