Three New Toad Species Discovered In Nevada’s Great Basin
The last time a new toad species was discovered in the United States was in 1968, and the Wyoming toad is now extinct. The newly found species are at risk already.
NASA Offers Safety Tips For Viewing Aug 21 Solar Eclipse
A total solar eclipse will be visible from many parts of the United States on Aug. 21, as the moon’s shadow moves across the country from west to east. NASA offered safety tips for viewing.
What Is Amazon Spark? E-Commerce Giant Launches Social Network For Shopping
Called Amazon Spark, it “is a place to discover things from people who share your interests,” according to the company, and it is currently available only for its Prime customers.
Superluminous Supernova Brighter Than Milky Way Detected 10 Billion Light-Years Away
The superluminous event was detected and confirmed at a distance of about 10 billion light-years, making it one of the brightest and most distant supernova ever recorded.
Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility, For Subatomic Experiments, Starts Construction
The Long-Baseline Neutrino Facility will start with the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment and study the change in properties of the mysterious particles as they travel over 800 miles underground.
First 51-Qubit Quantum Computer Using Cold Atoms Announced In Moscow
Mikhali Lukin from Harvard University made the announcement at the recently concluded 4th International Conference on Quantum Technologies in Moscow.
Beyond Graphene: New Nanomaterials For Solar Energy, Computers, Curing Cancer And A Lot More
The many unusual properties of atom-thin sheets of carbon have made graphene the poster child of wonder materials for over a decade, but science is moving beyond that now.
Sixth Mass Extinction Coming? Over 30% Of All Vertebrate Species Have Declining Populations, Study Finds
A study of almost half of all known terrestrial vertebrate species found that populations and ranges of over 30 percent of them have declined since 1990.
Rangeomorphs, Earliest Large Animals, Grew Up To Over 6 Feet Tall Due To Nutrient Availability
Till about 635 million years ago, life on Earth was mostly microscopic, but rangeomorphs that appear in the fossil record around that time grew up to over 6 feet tall.
Chinese Space Station Simulation In Beijing Backyard Gets 2nd Set Of Volunteers For 200 Days
A space station simulation in a Beijing suburb received its second set of student volunteers Sunday, who will spend 200 days without any contact with the outside world.
NASA’s Hubble Spots New Stars In Distant Galaxy, Seeing Them As They Appeared 11 Billion Years Ago
The large group of stars in a disk galaxy is so far away that we see them as they appeared 11 billion years, which was just 2.7 billion years after the Big Bang.
Double The Charm For CERN’s LHCb Experiment That Discovers A New Type Of Baryon
The new particle is a baryon and is the first one ever detected with two heavy charm quarks, unlike all other known baryons that have only one heavy quark.
Tesla Powerpack Installation In South Australia Will Be World’s Largest Lithium-Ion Storage Facility
Along with French renewable energy company Neoen, the Elon Musk enterprise won a bid to provide a 100 MW/129 MWh Powerpack system in South Australia.
West Antarctica Glacier, Ice Sheet History Over 11,000 Years As Larsen C Ice Shelf Poised To Calve
As the region loses ice steadily over the last few decades, one of the largest icebergs ever recorded is on the verge of breaking off from the Larsen C ice shelf.
Water Scarcity: Global Shortages Drive Innovation Even As Crisis Continues
Less than three percent of Earth’s water is fresh water, and current desalination methods have large financial and energy costs associated with them. But that could be changing.
100 Billion Brown Dwarfs Could Be Floating Around In The Milky Way
Thousands of these objects — with masses between the largest planets and the lightest stars — have been found already, but there could be 100 billion of them in our galaxy.
Supermassive Black Hole At This Dwarf Galaxy’s Center Suffers From ‘Indigestion’
The supermassive black hole of dwarf galaxy NGC 5195 has been found to be blasting out some of the matter that falls onto its accretion disk into the interstellar medium.
Milky Way’s Fastest-Moving Stars Were Absorbed From Another Galaxy That Orbits Our Own
A new study suggests these hypervelocity stars originated in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits our own at the speed of 250 miles a second.
CERN LHC Update: Large Hadron Collider Breaks Record For Circulating Proton Bunches
The Large Hadron Collider is presently the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator and is currently undergoing a one-week technical stop for maintenance.
China Space Program Is Ambitious, But Long March-5 Launch Failure Could Affect Plans
The Asian powerhouse has a very ambitious plan, including sending a crewed mission to the moon and probes to other planets, but a launch of the country’s most powerful rocket failed Sunday.
Possibility Of Alien Life On Exoplanets Could Be Thwarted By Massive Stellar Eruptions
Large eruptions of plasma and magnetic fields from stars influence space weather and potentially also the possibility of life on planets around those stars.
NASA’s Juno Flyby Over Jupiter’s Great Red Spot Soon After First Orbital Anniversary
On the evening of July 4, the NASA spacecraft will complete one full year and about 71 million miles in orbit around the largest planet in the solar system.
Astronomers Verify Existence Of Orbiting Supermassive Black Holes
The two supermassive black holes, located 750 million light-years from Earth, were observed for 12 years before they could be confirmed as a binary system.
Birds’ Flying Ability, Shape Of Their Eggs Could Be Linked, Study Suggests
While birds’ eggs usually have a largely oval shape, there are large differences in the degree of roundness, symmetry, and distribution of weight.
NASA Releases Uranus, Neptune Mission Concepts To Study Mysterious ‘Ice Giants’
Together called “ice giants” colloquially, the mysterious planets are the outermost in the solar system and despite the moniker, are thought to contain little solid ice now.
Detecting Gravitational Waves From Space Using LISA Satellites Chosen As ESA’s Third Large-Class Mission
Three satellites orbiting Earth in a triangle will be used for the purpose, which was chosen as the European Space Agency’s third large-class mission.
Birth Of A Star Likely Spawned Formation Of Another Protostar
Astronomers observed two young stars in the Orion star-forming region, a massive cloud of gas and dust about 1,400 light-years away from Earth.
Dead Satellites, Other Space Debris Could Be Removed From Orbit By Magnetic Tug
Nearly 17,000 pieces of debris, each larger than an apple and traveling at about 17,500 miles an hour, are regularly tracked by NASA. There are millions of pieces of junk orbiting Earth.
As NASA’s Kepler Finds 219 Possible Exoplanets, Red Dots Campaign Hunts For Worlds Around Nearby Stars
The Red Dots campaign has started gathering data to look for exoplanets that exist in three nearby star systems, all less than 10 light-years away.
Asteroid 6 Hebe Likely Not The Source Of H-Chondrite Meteorites That Hit Earth
They make up more than a third of all meteorites that strike Earth and were thought to be parts of 6 Hebe, a main-belt asteroid between Mars and Jupiter.