NASA has an experimental new partnership with private industry intended to reduce costs for American taxpayers and seed a lunar economy . The head of the American space company whose lunar lander failed this week in its mission to reach the Moon expressed optimism Friday that the next attempt would achieve its goal. “I am more … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Forests are an essential part of Earth’s operating system. They reduce the buildup of heat-trapping carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from fossil fuel combustion, deforestation and land degradation by 30% each year. This slows global temperature increases and the resulting changes to the climate. In the U.S., forests take up 12% … Read more
An Israeli company has received a preliminary green light from health officials to sell the world’s first steaks made from cultivated beef cells, not the entire animal, officials said. The move follows approval of lab-grown chicken in the U.S. last year. Aleph Farms, of Rehovot, Israel, was granted the initial go-ahead by the Israeli Health … Read more
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Are improvements to green technologies, like better batteries and more efficient solar panels, enough on their own to tackle climate change? Unfortunately not. Our behavior and lifestyles must change too. Rolling out the solutions to climate change (electric vehicles, solar power, heat pumps) will require confronting the enormous gulf in wealth … Read more
“Trash Truck.” Credit: Glen Keane Productions As a new parent, I’ve had the joy of watching animated cartoons with my two-year-old son. His favorite show is “Trash Truck,” on Netflix, featuring a tight-knit ensemble of five characters: a trash truck, a young boy, a raccoon, a bear and a mouse. The show offers valuable life … Read more
by Brady Reid, Chief Joanne Miles, Chief Peggy (Margaret) White, and Emma Lee, The Conversation In an era of “global boiling” the Canadian government has set ambitious targets to transition towards a net-zero future with important caveats that this transition must be fair and inclusive. However, does this future include vibrant, self-determined Indigenous communities? Research … Read more
An artist’s impression of the the NGC 1851E binary system, looking over the shoulder of the dark mystery companion star. Credit: MPIfR; Daniëlle Futselaar (artsource.nl), CC BY Sometimes astronomers come across objects in the sky that we can’t easily explain. In our new research, published in Science, we report such a discovery, which is likely … Read more
Rothorn Glacier in Hungerli Valley, Switzerland, is a bowl-shaped depression cirque glacier and the study site of rockwall erosion. Key glacial landforms are also identified; talus slopes form due to debris from rockfall events, while moraine ridges are unconsolidated debris deposited at the snout of a glacier and can be clear indicators of its retreat … Read more
A woman walks as snow falls during a storm in New York City on January 19, 2024, but several parts of the country were getting pummelled by blizzard conditions. Unrelenting storms have pummeled the United States over the past week, leading to at least 50 weather-related deaths, officials and US media reported Friday, as large … Read more
In this image made from live streaming released by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), a screen shows landing information as the robotic moon rover called Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM, attempts its lunar landing. Credit: JAXA via AP Japan became the fifth country in history to reach the moon when one of … Read more
