Asteroid impact monitoring system goes live

The asteroid impact monitoring system Sentry-II is analyzing near-Earth asteroids to look for ones that could intersect with Earth’s orbit.

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Rising Lithium Prices Risk Pushing EV Dreams Off The Road

As demand for electric vehicles grows amid a push for a greener economy, carmakers globally are grappling with rising prices of everything from semiconductor chips to copper and aluminum. Now the expense of lithium, a metal found in every commercial…

The Link Between Internet Use and Global Warming – The Wire Science

A view of the data centre at the University of Washington, Seattle. Photo: Taylor Vick/Unsplash On December 12, 2015, the Paris Agreement, a legally binding international treaty on climate change, was brought into effect, with 196 parties resolving to ensure…

Scientists Discover How Intricate Spider Webs Are Made By Brains That Are a Fraction of the Size of a Human’s

Johns Hopkins University researchers discovered precisely how spiders build webs by using night vision and artificial intelligence to track and record every movement of all eight legs as spiders worked in the dark. Their creation of a web-building playbook or algorithm brings new understanding of how creatures with brains a fraction of the size of […]

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Why Do Dogs Tilt Their Heads? Scientists Look at What’s Going On in Their Minds

You’ve probably seen dogs tilt their head. It’s adorable, but why do they do it? According to scientists, it may be a sign of concentration and memory recall. Several animals, including humans, present an asymmetry in the way they move or perceive the environment through their senses. For instance, one can prefer an ear or […]

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DART mission to strike and move an asteroid

The DART mission should launch in late November, headed to the moonlet of asteroid Didymos, where it will crash in to and push the moonlet to a small degree.

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Methane Pledge debated by Barnaby Joyce and Mike Cannon Brookes highlighting lack of net zero transition plan

Bush Summit 2021 with Clare Armstrong, Barnaby Joyce and Mike Cannon-Brookes Nationals Leader Barnaby Joyce said he took credit for preventing Australia signing the Global Methane Pledge as part of Australia’s Net Zero 2050 Plan. It was one of the…

Another Astra launch is imminent

A test payload for the U.S. Space Force to launch from the Astra spaceport in Alaska in early November 2021 will be Astra’s 4th attempt at reaching orbit.

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Climate change: Over 99.9% of studies agree that global warming is mainly caused by humans – Daily Mail

Global warming is our fault, according to a new study that analysed tens of thousands of climate change papers, finding that over 99.9 per cent of them agree.   In total 88,125 studies published from 2012 to 2020 were reviewed by…

Virtual reality universe unveiled

Researchers have amassed terabytes of data from a slew of telescopes to create the Virtual Reality Universe Project, a map of our cosmos.

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