ESA studies human hibernation for space travel
In movies and books, fictional astronauts enter âsuspended animationâ to cross the vastness of space. Recently ESA investigated how real-life crew hibernation would impact a space mission to Mars.
Why Nile hasnât changed course in 30 million years
Scientists say they’ve solved the geologic mystery of the Nile Riverâs unchanging path, and also discovered the river is about 30 million years old – 6 times older than previously believed.
Who knew? Plants âpanicâ when it rains
Using a spray bottle to simulate rain, researchers found a “panic-like” response in plants. Complex chemical warning signals were passed from leaf to leaf and even communicated to other plants.
As Climate Risk Grows, Cities Test a Tough Strategy: Saying ‘No’ to Developers
VIRGINIA BEACH. — Glimpsed from a kayak on West Neck Creek, this swampy piece of land, a pocket of red maple and loblolly pine tucked behind growing subdivisions, doesn’t look like the stuff of existential debate. But this is where…
Her Message About Climate Change: It’s Not Too Late
This article is part of our Women and Leadership special section, which focuses on approaches taken by women, minorities or other disadvantaged groups challenging traditional ways of thinking. Kate Marvel is an energetic spokeswoman for climate science at a time…
Come to know the Pleiades, or 7 Sisters
At this time of year, for all of us around the globe, the Pleiades star cluster culminates – reaches its highest point in the sky – around midnight.
Yes, The Mach-E Is A Real Mustang
The closest people on the sidewalk jumped a bit. Two men on scooters abandoned their wheels, and exploded out of the bike lane onto the sidewalk. Even people who weren’t frightened were definitely looking my way, just in case. Moments earlier, the light had just turned green, and I had used my right and left feet to unleash a monster on the streets of downtown Los Angeles. The Shelby GT350R, with its 5.2L flat-plane crank V8 engine, let out a growling sound that awakens humans’ inner fear of large, growling animals
Fly me (partway) to the moon
(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) Last week, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of Guelph sent a telescope to the top of the sky, almost to space itself. The trip was a moonlight-gathering mission that has yielded some of the best measurements ever taken of the brightness, or more specifically the surface reflectance, of Earth’s nearest neighbor, the Moon.
New danger for corals in warming oceans: Metal pollution
(Cornell University) Metal copper from agricultural runoff and marine paint leaching from boat hulls poses an emerging threat to soft coral sea fans in the waters around Puerto Rico.
Exoplanet axis study boosts hopes of complex life, just not next door
(Georgia Institute of Technology) There’s new hope that we aren’t alone in the universe, that advanced beings may exist on exoplanets. But they’re probably not close by, says a new study on the stability of planetary tilts — and orbits — needed to encourage the evolution of complex life.
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