Category: 7. Science

Continue Reading

  • Stormy space weather may be garbling messages from aliens, new research suggests | Alien life

    Stormy space weather may be garbling messages from aliens, new research suggests | Alien life

    Earth’s leading alien hunters believe extraterrestrials could be out there, they’re just having a hard time getting through to us because it’s stormy in space.

    Reminiscent of ET’s struggles to “phone home” in Steven Spielberg’s 1982

    Continue Reading

  • Chinese scientists map chemical composition of the Moon’s far side using AI model

    Chinese scientists map chemical composition of the Moon’s far side using AI model

    Photo: Deep Space Exploration Lab

    Chinese scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in mapping the Moon’s chemical composition by building an AI-based model using the measured data from the first sample collected on the Moon’s far side by…

    Continue Reading

  • Webb reveals mysterious cold region inside Jupiter’s northern lights

    Jupiter’s aurora is larger, stronger, and far more constant than Earth’s northern lights. Scientists have now discovered something unexpected within that glowing chaos: a sharp cold patch and dramatic swings in density high above the giant…

    Continue Reading

  • ‘Future depends on the choices that we make’

    ‘Future depends on the choices that we make’

    New scientific analysis from the Antarctic Peninsula warns that decisions made in this decade will shape the southern continent’s future “for centuries to come” and have worldwide impacts, as a university report detailed.

    What’s happening?

    The

    Continue Reading

  • ‘More advanced’ farming women married hunter-gatherer men in Europe thousands of years ago, ancient DNA reveals

    ‘More advanced’ farming women married hunter-gatherer men in Europe thousands of years ago, ancient DNA reveals

    When ancient DNA studies began to gain attention, little more than a decade ago, the view took hold among geneticists that everything we thought we knew about the peopling of Europe by modern humans was wrong. The story was simpler than anyone…

    Continue Reading

  • Space launches are changing the chemistry of Earth's atmosphere, studies warn. Here's what can be done – Phys.org

    1. Space launches are changing the chemistry of Earth’s atmosphere, studies warn. Here’s what can be done  Phys.org
    2. SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites. Here’s how that could impact the atmosphere and the night sky  CBC
    3. Don’t let…

    Continue Reading

  • NASA’s DART actually changed the orbit of an Asteroid around the Sun.

    NASA’s DART actually changed the orbit of an Asteroid around the Sun.

    NASA’s DART actually changed the orbit of an Asteroid around the Sun.

    We knew that DART changed the orbit of Dimorphos, but that was orbiting another larger asteroid called Didymos. Now, scientists have…

    Continue Reading

  • Macaques have a special ability thought to be uniquely human

    Macaques have a special ability thought to be uniquely human

    Two macaque monkeys have demonstrated the ability to tap in time with musical rhythms and maintain that timing even when rewards disappear.

    The result places a key element of musical timing inside a primate brain, complicating the long-held belief…

    Continue Reading

  • Smallest rhynchosaur fossil ever seen changes what we knew

    Smallest rhynchosaur fossil ever seen changes what we knew

    A fossil skull barely 1 inch long has proved to be a newborn reptile from Brazil’s Late Triassic, a period more than 230 million years ago when early reptiles dominated land ecosystems.

    Its tiny jaw already carries the cutting surfaces seen in…

    Continue Reading