Whatâs the birthstone for October?
If you were born in October, your birth month has 2 birthstones: opal and tourmaline.
Ice Age manatees may have called Texas home
(University of Texas at Austin) Manatees don’t live year-round in Texas, but these gentle sea cows are known to occasionally visit, swimming in for a ‘summer vacation’ and returning to warmer waters for the winter. New research has found fossil evidence for manatees along the Texas coast dating back to the most recent ice age. The discovery raises questions about whether manatees have been visiting for thousands of years, or if ice age manatees once called Texas home.
Global warming, fires, and crime in Mexico and beyond – Brookings Institution
When a brush fire erupted near Tijuana in early September, a large part of the North American western coast was either on fire or at high risk of fire. The dramatic fire belt stretched from Canada to northern Mexico. Although…
NASA finds wind shear displacing Lowell’s strongest storms
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA’s Aqua satellite provided an infrared view of Tropical Storm Lowell that revealed the effects of outside winds battering the storm.
How Transparent Solar Panels And ‘Quantum Dots’ Could Make Skyscrapers Power Themselves
In labs around the world, scientists and engineers are working to transform skyscrapers into giant solar energy-generating pylons. This has been made possible by a seemingly fictional invention that has appeared over the last few yearsâorganic, transparent solar cells that when inserted into panes of glass, absorb sun and turn it into electricity to power […]
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NASA finds Tropical Storm Lowell’s center north of strongest side
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) NASA’s Aqua satellite used infrared light to identify strongest storms and coldest cloud top temperatures in Tropical Storm Lowell and found them south of the center of circulation.
NASA tracking Beta’s heavy rainfall into lower Mississippi Valley
(NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Slow-moving post-tropical storm Beta continues to drop large amounts of rainfall in Texas as it moves into the Lower Mississippi Valley on Sept. 23. A NASA satellite rainfall product that incorporates data from satellites and observations estimated Beta’s rainfall rates.
Compounding impact of severe weather events fuels marine heatwave in the coastal ocean
Researchers can offer insight into why these storms intensified quickly as they moved across the continental shelf.
Cardiovascular health similarities between chimpanzees, humans
Doctors like to remind patients not to monkey around with their health, suggesting that a good diet and regular exercise improve longevity.
Amid hurricanes and wildfires, Trump gives science a cold shoulder
“I don’t think science knows actually. It’ll start getting cooler,” US President Donald Trump said during a briefing on California wildfires
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