• How an astronomer accidentally found a star stuck in a cosmic waltz
    Friday, March 14, 2025 from SPACE.com
    While unraveling the mystery of why some planet-forming disks fall onto their stars, an astronomer stumbled upon a surprise: a hidden star.
  • 'Their loss diminishes us all': Scientists emphasize how Trump's mass NOAA layoffs endanger the world
    Friday, March 14, 2025 from SPACE.com
    "From our perspective down in the trenches actually working for the government, it feels like the people up top just have no clue about anything."
  • Total lunar eclipse March 2025: Best photos of the "Blood Worm Moon"
    Friday, March 14, 2025 from SPACE.com
    Relive the 2025 "Blood Worm Moon" total lunar eclipse with these breathtaking photos.
  • Book Review: How Our Digital Infatuation Undermines Discourse
    Friday, March 14, 2025 from Undark
    Technology writer Nicholas Carr contends in “Superbloom” that our obsession with digital technology is causing us to live in a perpetual state of sensory and communication overload. In the process, our devices are exacting a...
  • RFK Jr: Recruit Dr. Vinay Prasad to Run an RCT of the Routine Vaccine Schedule
    Friday, March 14, 2025 from Science-Based Medicine
    I only feel comfortable suggesting an RCT of routine vaccines because I am confident it wouldn't get off the ground. The post RFK Jr: Recruit Dr. Vinay Prasad to Run an RCT of the Routine Vaccine Schedule first appeared on Science-Based...
  • JWST Cycle 4 Spotlight, Part 1: Exoplanets and Habitability
    Friday, March 14, 2025 from Universe Today
    JWST Cycle 4 Spotlight, Part 1: Exoplanets and Habitability
  • Video: Blood Moon Total Lunar Eclipse: When and How to Watch
    Friday, March 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    Earth’s shadow will block most of the light that illuminates the lunar surface, creating what is known as a blood moon.
  • Hubble Finds a Potential Triple Kuiper Belt Object
    Friday, March 14, 2025 from Universe Today
    A distant trio of worlds may shed light on planetary formation in the early solar system. Sometimes, good things come in threes. If astronomers are correct, a system in the distant Kuiper Belt may not be two but three worlds, offering an...
  • NASA study shows unexpected ocean level increase
    Friday, March 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    The world's sea levels grew far more quickly and by a larger amount than anticipated in 2024, mostly due to warming water temperatures, a new NASA analysis shows.
  • Germany's Spies: COVID Likely Started in a Lab
    Friday, March 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    Germany's spy agency is in sync with the CIA in regard to the origins of COVID: Both think it likely originated in a lab in China. After its own analysis, Germany's BND foreign intelligence service thinks there's an 80% to 90% chance...
  • You could train your brain to be less fooled by optical illusions
    Friday, March 14, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Nature, Environment, Climate Change, Ecology, Ecosystems
    Shifting your focus could help you overcome the trickery of optical illusions
  • It's Time to Stop Being Surprised by Surprising Weather
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Universe Today
    The increasing frequency of so-called ‘1-in-a-1000-year' weather events highlights how global warming is disrupting rather more typical weather patterns beyond what scientific models can reliably predict. A recent paper proposes a...
  • Saturn Now Has 274 Moons after New Discovery
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com
    A team of astronomers from Taiwan, Canada, the United States, and France has observed 128 additional moons orbiting the gas giant Saturn, bringing its total number of confirmed moons to 274. The post Saturn Now Has 274 Moons after New...
  • Climate Change Could Soon Raise Our Exposure to Viruses From Sewage
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Discover Top Stories
    Learn how viruses lingering in sewage can enter bodies of water, posing a public health risk that may be on the rise as climate change brings more rain.
  • Nostalgia and Thinking About the Past Helps Us Hold Onto Our Friendships
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Discover Top Stories
    Learn more about the friendship-fueling powers of nostalgia, which may lead people to recognize the importance of their relationships.
  • Early Mammals Had Dark and Dusky Grayish-Brown Fur, Study Suggests
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com
    Pelage coloration, which serves numerous functions, is crucial to the evolution of behavior, physiology, and habitat preferences of mammals. The post Early Mammals Had Dark and Dusky Grayish-Brown Fur, Study Suggests appeared first on...
  • Global sea level rose faster than expected last year alarming scientists
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    Rising sea levels bring potentially deadly storm surge farther inland and impact urban infrastructure
  • Weighing in on a Mars water debate: Analysis challenges previous findings
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    More than 3 billion years ago, Mars intermittently had liquid water on its surface. After the planet lost much of its atmosphere, however, surface water could no longer persist. The fate of Mars's water—whether it was buried as ice,...
  • 1.4 Million-Year-Old Hominin Is the Oldest Face of Western Europe
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Discover Top Stories
    Learn more about Homo affinis erectus, Western Europe’s oldest human ancestor.
  • Former Google chief Eric Schmidt takes the reins at rocket startup Relativity Space
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from SPACE.com
    Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has assumed the top job at the startup Relativity Space, which aims to compete with SpaceX and other big launch companies.
  • Snakes' secret language of ultraviolet color: A hidden world of predator evasion and camouflage
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    In the study of why and how animals look the way they do, color is king—at least, the range of color humans can see. A University of Michigan study has examined a color range that humans can't see and often ignore: color in the...
  • NOAA to layoff 1,000 more workers at already depleted weather agency: ‘There’s going to be pain and a lot of it’
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    A former NOAA official says another round of ‘malicious’ layoffs will affect more than 1,000 additional employee
  • A planetary boundary for geological resources: Exploring the limits of regional water availability
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    Geological resources such as critical metals and minerals, essential for the diffusion of technologies such as renewable energy and energy storage towards a decarbonized society, are indispensable for supporting modern life in the form...
  • Adding extra protein to ultra-processed foods helps reduce overeating
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Nature, Environment, Climate Change, Ecology, Ecosystems
    The health problems associated with ultra-processed foods may be explained by the way the products encourage overeating. Adding more protein to the foods might help people limit their intake – but it isn’t a complete solution
  • NOAA cancels monthly climate and weather update calls
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Nature, Environment, Climate Change, Ecology, Ecosystems
    The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says it is discontinuing its regular update calls due to staffing problems, but its researchers may also fear political retaliation for discussing climate change
  • Astronomy's dirty window to space: A detailed map of dust in the Milky Way
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    When we observe distant celestial objects, there is a possible catch: Is that star I am observing really as reddish as it appears? Or does the star merely look reddish, since its light has had to travel through a cloud of cosmic dust to...
  • Greenland Inuit face health risks from 'forever chemicals' in diet
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    Scientists warned on Thursday that the long-term health of Inuit hunters in eastern Greenland was under threat, due to so-called "forever chemicals" in the atmosphere and their diet of polar bear and seal meat.
  • Antarctica breakthrough as map shows huge undiscovered mountains under ice
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Nature, Environment, Climate Change, Ecology, Ecosystems
    The British Antarctic Survey have released the most detailed map yet of the landscape beneath Antarctica's ice sheet
  • JWST Findings May Suggest Our Universe Exists Inside a Black Hole
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Discover Top Stories
    Observations about the directions in which galaxies turn have a head-spinning implication: our entire Universe might exist inside a black hole.
  • Tom Hanks at 'Moonwalkers' film premiere predicts getting busy on moon
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from SPACE.com
    Tom Hanks knows there are two things that are going to happen in the future: the moon will become a home to astronauts and the other — well, it is best to hear it from him.
  • European spacecraft captures rare images of Mars moon Deimos
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    Hera snapped rare pictures of the mysterious Deimos from 5600km away.
  • White House Withdraws Nominee for C.D.C. Director
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    Dr. Dave Weldon was to have appeared on Thursday in a confirmation hearing before the Senate health committee. He has close ties to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary.
  • ‘We Hear You, Mr. President’: The World Lines Up to Buy American Gas
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    Facing Trump tariff threats, governments and companies are proposing major investments in American liquefied natural gas projects.
  • Woman Who Lived to 117 Had Microbiota of a Child
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    After Maria Branyas died last year at age 117, genetics professor Manel Esteller said "she was dealt a great hand and has played her cards very well." The yogurt may have helped as well. Esteller and other researchers say Branyas had a...
  • As next hurricane season nears, study explores impacts of 2024's storms
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
    When major storms hit Houston last spring and summer, losing power was a nightmare for residents, but for many, the financial fallout was just as devastating. A new report finds that more than half of Houston-area workers lost income due...
  • Researchers develop method to identify dormant cells that carry HIV
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
    Study findings provide a new gene pathway for potential treatment of the virus affecting millions.
  • Chocolate -- with potential health benefits
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily
    Many people will soon load up Easter baskets with chocolate candy for children and adults to enjoy. On its own, dark chocolate has health benefits, such as antioxidants that neutralize damaging free radicals. And a new report suggests...
  • Serendipitous discovery reveals how stress and chemistry etch mysterious spiral patterns
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    UCLA doctoral student Yilin Wong noticed that some tiny dots had appeared on one of her samples, which had been accidentally left out overnight. The layered sample consisted of a germanium wafer topped with evaporated metal films in...
  • Nearby Supernova Explosions May Have Caused Several Mass Extinctions on Earth
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com
    According to new research from Keele University and the Universidad de Alicante, near-Earth explosions of giant O- and B-type stars occur at a rate of 2.5 per one billion year. The post Nearby Supernova Explosions May Have Caused Several...
  • The 1st full live-action 'Lilo and Stitch' trailer just dropped and fine, we admit it: it looks fantastic (video)
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from SPACE.com
    This nostalgic remake of the 2002 animated classic arrives on May 23, 2025.
  • Bay of Plenty fireball captured on camera, lights up night sky
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    David Greig's camera recorded the fireball at 10.49pm on Wednesday night.
  • Total lunar eclipse tonight: Blood moon visible in Tauranga and Rotorua
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Science (2)
    Jupiter and Mars will be visible during the eclipse, weather permitting.
  • For one former logging company, nature’s green is gold
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Nature, Environment, Climate Change, Ecology, Ecosystems
    The Amazon rainforest faced another difficult year. Despite bright spots, humanity is still asking too much of the forest. One company says it has an answer.
  • Asteroid probe snaps rare pics of Martian moon
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare images of the red planet's mysterious small moon Deimos, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Thursday.
  • Fossils reveal what the fur of early mammals looked like
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Nature, Environment, Climate Change, Ecology, Ecosystems
    A study of the fossilised fur of six mammals from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods has found they were all greyish-brown in colour, which would have helped them hide from dinosaurs
  • Spinning, twisted light could power next-generation electronics
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    Researchers have advanced a decades-old challenge in the field of organic semiconductors, opening new possibilities for the future of electronics. The researchers, led by the University of Cambridge and the Eindhoven University of...
  • AI reveals new insights into the flow of Antarctic ice
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    As the planet warms, Antarctica's ice sheet is melting and contributing to sea-level rise around the globe. Antarctica holds enough frozen water to raise global sea levels by 190 feet, so precisely predicting how it will move and melt...
  • DNA and 90 million-year-old pollen fossils reveal new insights into evolution of Asian tropics
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from Phys.org - spotlight science and technology news stories
    In a new study published today in Science, researchers from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG Kew), together with global partners, combine results from two newly discovered prehistoric palm fossils with DNA from global palm collections...
  • Destruction of Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam left behind a toxic legacy
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Nature, Environment, Climate Change, Ecology, Ecosystems
    The 2023 breach of the Kakhovka dam drained a huge reservoir and exposed a vast area of toxic sediment, creating a debate about how best to rebuild after the Russia-Ukraine war
  • Watch moon dust fly as private Blue Ghost lunar lander touches down (video)
    Thursday, March 13, 2025 from SPACE.com
    Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost moon lander just beamed home up-close video of its epic March 2 touchdown, showing how its thrusters kicked up plumes of lunar dust.
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