NASA astronauts Suni Williams, left, and Butch Wilmore stand together for a photo enroute to the launch pad at Space Launch Complex 41 Wednesday, June 5, 2024, in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for their liftoff on the Boeing Starliner capsule to the international space station. Credit: AP Photo/Chris O’Meara, File The two NASA astronauts left behind … Read more
Hippos descended from a small herd introduced by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar are seen in the wild in Antioquia Department, Colombia, in April 2023. A Colombian court on Friday called for the hunting of hippos, introduced to the country in the 1980s by drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. The Administrative Court of Cundinamarca set a three-month … Read more
Debris flies through the air in Hai Phong as Super Typhoon Yagi makes landfall in Vietnam. Super Typhoon Yagi uprooted thousands of trees and swept ships and boats out to sea, killing one person, as it made landfall in northern Vietnam Saturday, after blowing past southern China where it left two dead. The typhoon hit … Read more
(A) An artistic poster depicting the autonomous self-healing phenomenon found in nanoscale Ag. (B, C) Sequential high-resolution TEM images showing the autonomous self-healing processes of a nanocrack (B) and nanopore (C) damage, respectively. (D) High-angle annular dark field (HAADF) images and the corresponding geometric phase analysis (GPA) of an overall self-healing process of nanopore. (E) … Read more
An artist’s illustrtaion of the Cluster satellite mission to study Earth’s magentic field. After 24 years diligently studying Earth’s magnetic field, a satellite will mostly burn up over the Pacific Ocean on Sunday during a “targeted” re-entry into the atmosphere, in a first for the European Space Agency as it seeks to reduce space debris. … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain We have used machine learning to identify the biggest plastic pollution hotspots across more than 50,000 towns, cities and rural areas worldwide. Our new global model reveals the most detailed picture of plastic pollution ever created with the highest environmental concentrations in India, predominantly because so much of its waste isn’t … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Is authoritarian populism finally being rejected by citizens around the world? In 2016, Donald Trump successfully fused his angry frustrations with globalism with false allegations about immigrant rapists. Eight years later, he is still doubling down on identity. But this time around, his message seems worn and brittle. He lacks a … Read more
by Bradley J. Moggridge, Jessica K Weir, Katie Moon and Rachel Morgain, The Conversation Kamilaroi Country lies in far northwest New South Wales, past Tamworth and crossing over the Queensland border. Here, the bunyip bird (Australasian bittern, Botaurus poiciloptilus), and the brolga (Grus rubicunda or burraalga in Kamilaroi) have been part of life, lore, spirit, … Read more
This Dec. 2, 2020, file image taken by panoramic camera aboard the lander-ascender combination of Chang’e-5 spacecraft provided by China National Space Administration shows a moon surface after it landed on the moon. Credit: China National Space Administration/Xinhua via AP, File Volcanoes were still erupting on the moon when dinosaurs roamed Earth, new research suggests. … Read more
A northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) attempts to catch a sablefish (Anoplopoma fimbria), captured by Ocean Networks Canada’s high-definition camera at the Barkley Canyon NEPTUNE observatory site, off the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. Credit: Ocean Networks Canada If you’re not susceptible to urban myths and misinformation, there’s a new study from the World … Read more
