Our solar system’s biggest planet, Jupiter, will soon come closer to Earth than it has in the last 70 years. On September 26, when it is at opposition, the planet is at its brightest and easiest to see. Seen from ...
An experimental vaccination against COVID-19 was given the go-light by South Korean authorities in June, making it the first drug in history to be based on a human-created protein. Researchers developed the vaccine about a decade ago, via a laborious ...
New results show how many different types of samples the agency’s geologists and future scientists working on the Mars Sample Return program will have to analyze. The soil that NASA’s six-wheeled Mars rover, Perseverance, has been travelling on since arriving ...
Recent findings provide light on a hitherto unexplored area of Mars with a wet history and the potential it holds for the NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return mission. The Perseverance rover, now deep in its second scientific campaign, is drilling rock ...
There are vast kelp and seaweed forests below the surface, considerably larger than we had imagined. There aren’t many people even mentioned by name. However, a vast variety of aquatic life thrives under their verdant canopy. The Great African Seaforest ...
A recent discovery of a 380-million-year-old heart left researchers in awe, but it is quite the deal when it comes to evolutionary history. The 380-million-year-old heart, the oldest ever found, coupled with a separate fossilized liver, stomach, and intestine (can ...
The classic scientific explanation for why the dinosaurs aren’t here nowadays is that a huge asteroid of about 5 km in its radius smashed into Earth about 66 million years ago. Unfortunately for our giant friends or not, they didn’t ...
Greenhouse gas emissions continue to concern experts, as the weather across the world is not looking too good, either. United in Science issued a new worrying report, warning that governments had been sloppy when it comes to efforts to prevent ...
The Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia, once home to a massive ancient ocean, hides many mysteries. It stretches for over a thousand kilometers and is now a scrubby desert on limestone bedrock. Recent discovery tries to shed light upon the ...
Chinese scientists have found a brand-new mineral called Changesite-(Y) in lunar samples returned by China’s Chang’e-5 lunar spacecraft in December 2020. The mineral resembles a diamond a lot due to its crystal clear appearance. China is, at present, the third ...
To make matter even colder than the darkest parts of space, a team of researchers has managed to chill it to within a billionth of a degree of absolute zero. The experiment, run at the University of Kyoto in Japan, ...
New data reveal that Doomsday Glacier is perilously close to collapse than experts believed. What’s more concerning is that there’s nothing we can do anymore. The glacier had episodes of fast retreat during the previous several centuries, which might be ...
Choosing climate-friendly foods is simpler than you would imagine, especially if you are concerned about the environment, climate change, and sustainability. But where to start? Researchers developed an algorithm to calculate the environmental impact of 57,000 food items using publicly ...
According to significant research, considerable areas of Amazon may never recover, and that’s probably one of the saddest things to happen to our planet. Scientists found that in some regions of the Amazon, environmental devastation is so severe that the ...
Scientists warn that we’re not ready for the next supervolcano eruption, and that’s quite shocking. Before we start panicking, which shouldn’t be the case, Earth already has a lot of threats, some of which we have just recently encountered. That ...
NASA discovered previously unknown Antarctic ice loss that’s concerning. The loss from ice shelves is now estimated to be twice as much as it was once, and new research, including the first map of iceberg calving, shows how the continent ...
Smoking cannabis is usually known as not being a good idea for people’s health. It can lead to lung infections, a daily cough, and more. But scientists from Cambridge University and King’s College London now come to contradict a bit ...
PEDP is a protein pigment epithelium-derived factor, which safeguards retinal support cells, and the loss of it may hasten age-related alterations in the retina, highlights a recent National Eye Institute (NEI) research. That being said, age-related macular degeneration-like symptoms can ...
A new study delivers a ‘warning to humanity,’ urging swift action to preserve the planet’s 60,000 tree species. The trees’ future seems bleak. Significant biodiversity losses would result from the widespread extinction of tree species. About 75 % of bird ...
According to recent research, Zimbabwe was the home of one of the oldest dinosaur species ever found on Earth and the oldest confirmed dinosaur species ever found in Africa. Mbiresaurs raathi, a 230 million-year-old dinosaur whose neighbors lived in Brazil, ...
A new ‘Stonehenge’ arises, and it’s actually one of Europe’s largest Neolithic standing stones. The stone was discovered by archaeologists in southwest Spain, close to Huelva, at a future avocado farm. Archaeologists have begun their mission immediately, trying to solve ...
According to new data, the pan-Arctic (Greenland, parts of Canada, Russia, Scandinavia, and Alaska) has seen a decline in lake size during the last two decades and is completely drying. The results provide data on the causes of the mass ...
The jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii can live forever (at least in principle), according to research conducted by a team at the Universidad de Oviedo in Spain. In a recent study, the researchers discussed sequencing the genomes of two closely related species ...
Scientists have discovered that a significant sea-level rise from the melting of the Greenland ice sheet is now unavoidable, even if the fossil fuel burning causing the climate catastrophe were to stop tomorrow somehow. As concerning as that could be, ...
The huge eruption in Tonga caused a series of world-circling tsunamis, which may have originated as a single pile of water around the height of the Statue of Liberty. These tsunamis circled the whole planet. In addition to this, the ...