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La Niña is coming, raising the chances of a dangerous Atlantic hurricane season – an atmospheric scientist explains this climate phenomenon
After a year of record-breaking global heat with El Niño, will La Niña bring a reprieve? That depends on where you live and how you feel about hurricanes.
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Coral reefs are experiencing another global bleaching event. Growing corals on artificial reefs could help save them
The University of Miami’s ECoREEF experiment, off the coast of Miami Beach, Florida, is testing the impact of hybrid reef structures on coastal ecosystems.
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Can heavy snowfall trigger earthquakes? A new study suggests a link
Heavy snowfall could be a factor in triggering swarms of earthquakes, a study suggests, based on research into quakes that have rattled Japan’s Noto Peninsula.
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How India got stuck in its own unusual time zone
India’s half-hour time zone is a lingering result of colonialism.
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Boeing's Starliner rolled off launch pad to replace 'buzzing' rocket valve (photo)
Boeing's Starliner spacecraft was rolled off the launch pad today (May 8) to replace a misbehaving valve on its Atlas V rocket.
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A failed star and an ammonia trail could reveal how some giant exoplanets form
The James Webb Space Telescope is teaching us about how planets form.
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World's largest visible light telescope spies a galaxy cluster warping spacetime
New images from the VLT Survey Telescope will help scientists learn about galaxy pasts, and perhaps futures.
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SpaceX launching 20 Starlink satellites from California tonight
SpaceX is set to launch 20 Starlink internet satellites from California tonight (May 9), including 13 with direct-to-cell capability.
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The ‘world’s largest’ vacuum to suck climate pollution out of the air just opened. Here’s how it works
Mammoth will suck in air using giant fans, separate the carbon and transport it underground where it will transform into stone
4 min read - ScienceSpace
NASA's TESS spacecraft resumes exoplanet hunt after recovering from glitch
NASA's exoplanet-hunting spacecraft TESS is back in action after nine days in safe mode, returning to scientific observations on May 3.
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New telescope images reveal ghostly ‘God’s Hand’ in Milky Way reaching across the cosmos
The Dark Energy Camera captured a rarely seen celestial phenomenon in action: a cosmic cloud called “God’s Hand,” which appears to reach out for a spiral galaxy.
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Boeing’s historic Starliner mission now expected to launch no sooner than May 17 after valve issue
Engineers are replacing a valve on the rocket that will power the first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. The launch is now expected no sooner than May 17.
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Axiom Space eyes the moon while continuing to dream big in Earth orbit
Axiom Space, which was founded in 2016, has already organized three private crewed missions to the International Space Station, and it's building the spacesuits for NASA's Artemis moonwalkers.
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Video shows plasma swirling on sun in "exquisite detail"
In the video, the surface of the sun appears furred with dark yellow material as beams of gold swoop overhead.
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Astronomers finally detect a rocky planet with an atmosphere
Astronomers have searched for years for rocky planets beyond our solar system with an atmosphere - a trait considered essential for any possibility of harboring life. Researchers said on Wednesday the planet is a "super-Earth" - a rocky world significantly larger than our planet but smaller than Neptune - and it orbits perilously close to a star dimmer and slightly less massive than our sun, rapidly completing an orbit every 18 hours or so. Infrared observations using two instruments aboard th
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A scorching, rocky planet twice Earth's size has a thick atmosphere, scientists say
A thick atmosphere has been detected around a planet that’s twice as big as Earth in a nearby solar system, researchers reported Wednesday. The so-called super Earth — known as 55 Cancri e — is among the few rocky planets outside our solar system with a significant atmosphere, wrapped a blanket of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. Earth’s atmosphere is a blend of nitrogen, oxygen, argon and other gases.
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These snakes not only fake their own deaths, they use gory special effects to do it
Dice snakes play dead when attacked by predators, putting on a display that includes smearing themselves with their own poop and letting blood ooze from their mouths.
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This diamond exoplanet lost its atmosphere — then it grew another
55 Cancri e is a super-Earth planet that appears composed of diamond-like carbon — now, thanks to the JWST, astronomers have found the world has "grown" a second atmosphere.
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Solar eclipse 2024: Live updates
Stay up-to-date with the latest news on the upcoming solar eclipses, including the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2, 2024.
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Sun explodes in a flurry of powerful solar flares from hyperactive sunspots (video)
Watch the sun explode in a fury as it unleashes yet another barrage of solar flares, including two of the most powerful: X-class.
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China's Chang'e 6 mission to collect samples of the far side of the moon enters lunar orbit (video)
China's Chang'e 6 has entered orbit around the moon ahead of its upcoming landing attempt on the lunar far side where it will collect samples that will be returned to Earth.
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High school students, frustrated by lack of climate education, press for change
Several dozen young people wearing light blue T-shirts imprinted with #teachclimate filled a hearing room in the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul in late February. The high school and college students and other advocates, part of group Climate Generation, called on the Minnesota Youth Council, a liaison between young people and state lawmakers, to support a bill requiring schools to teach more about climate change. Ethan Vue, who grew up with droughts and extreme temperatures in California, now l
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Unprecedented evidence humans occupied ‘lava tubes’ could fill in gaps in the archaeological record, scientists say
People in the Arabian desert once occupied natural underground tunnels thousands of years ago that were made of cooled lava, archaeologists have discovered.
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Private lunar lander to carry 'memory disk' of 275 human languages to the moon in 2024
ispace will send a time capsule of 275 human languages to the moon aboard a lunar lander as part of its Hakuto-R Mission 2 later this year.
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Everyday life and its variability influenced human evolution at least as much as rare activities like big-game hunting
Some anthropologists question how much rare activities like big-game hunting could have affected how our species evolved. Instead they’re looking at daily activities like carrying water or firewood.
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Exoplanet WASP-69b has a cometlike tail – this unique feature is helping scientists like me learn more about how planets evolve
Research on one exoplanet that’s rapidly losing its atmosphere is hinting to scientists why exoplanets tend to look a certain way.
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SpaceX launches 23 satellites from Florida on 1st leg of Starlink doubleheader (video)
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida today (May 8), on the first leg of a planned spaceflight doubleheader for the company.
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Fall into a black hole in mind-bending NASA animation (video)
Black hole week is on, and to celebrate NASA is taking us on a way to plunge past the event horizon of a supermassive black hole and on a time-bending trip around the same cosmic titan.
6 min read - WorldAssociated Press
Kenya declares public holiday to mourn flood victims
Kenya’s President William Ruto has declared Friday a public holiday to mourn the 238 people who have died due to ongoing flooding. The president on Wednesday said the day will be observed by national tree planting activities to help mitigate the effects of climate change. Kenya, along with other parts of East Africa, have been overwhelmed by floods.
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1st astronaut launch of Boeing's Starliner delayed to May 17 to replace 'buzzing' rocket valve
The first crewed launch of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft has been pushed to May 17 so teams can replace a valve on its Atlas V rocket.
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Planet endures record-hot April, as scientists warn 2024 could beat heat records for second year in a row
Record global heat continues its unbroken streak. Last month, the world lived through the hottest April on record, according to new data from Copernicus, the European Union’s climate monitoring service.
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Starliner launch delayed to at least May 17 to replace suspect valve in Atlas 5 rocket
United Launch Alliance decided to replace a suspect valve in the Atlas 5 rocket's upper stage, delaying launch to late next week.
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Boeing's first astronaut launch is off until late next week to replace a bad rocket valve
Boeing’s first astronaut launch is off until late next week because of a bad valve in the rocket that needs to be replaced. The countdown was halted Monday night after a pressure-relief valve in the Atlas V rocket’s upper stage opened and closed so quickly and so many times that it created a loud buzz. Engineers for United Launch Alliance determined Tuesday that the valve has exceeded its design limit and must now be removed, pushing liftoff to no earlier than May 17.
1 min read - WorldAssociated Press
More and faster: Electricity from clean sources reaches 30% of global total
Billions of people are using different kinds of energy each day and 2023 was a record-breaking year for renewable energy sources — ones that don't emit planet-warming pollutants like carbon dioxide and methane — according to a report published Wednesday by Ember, a think tank based in London. For the first time, 30% of electricity produced worldwide was from clean energy sources as the number of solar and wind farms continued to grow fast. Of the types of clean energy generated last year, hydr
3 min read - BusinessWashington Post
Sweetgreen promised to go carbon neutral. Now it’s serving steak.
Sweetgreen, the fast-casual chain known for healthful salads and bowls, on Tuesday introduced steak to its menu for the first time. Customers can now order caramelized, garlic-flavored steak in several new dishes and as an addition to the lineup of existing entrees. Beef - whose production is notoriously climate-damaging - seemed to be an unlikely addition to what the company touts as its “plant-forward, Earth friendly” food.Subscribe to The Post Most newsletter for the most important and intere
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Next-gen satellites will paint a clearer picture of a changing Earth
From tracking hazards in the ocean to predicting the strength of hurricanes, NOAA's GeoXO series continues on the legacy of the GOES-R series — but with exciting upgrades.
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Could alien life be hiding in the rings of Saturn or Jupiter?
The rings that circle gas giants like Saturn are composed mostly of water-ice particles. Could life exist in these beautiful and enigmatic structures?
4 min read - WorldAssociated Press
From flooding in Brazil and Houston to brutal heat in Asia, extreme weather seems nearly everywhere
In sweltering Brazil, flooding killed dozens of people and paralyzed a city of about 4 million people. Voters and politicians in India, amid national elections, are fainting in heat that hit as high as 115 degrees (46.3 degrees Celsius). A brutal Asian heat wave has closed schools in the Philippines, killed people in Thailand and set records there and in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Maldives and Myanmar.
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James Webb Space Telescope suggests supermassive black holes grew from heavy cosmic 'seeds'
The mystery of how early universe supermassive black holes grew so quickly may be solved, with the James Webb Space Telescope finding the first evidence of "heavy seeds."
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'God's Hand' interstellar cloud reaches for the stars in new Dark Energy Camera image (video)
The Dark Energy Camera has imaged a ghostly hand claw reaching out to grab a distant galaxy. There's nothing supernatural about this structure known as "God's Hand," but it's awe-inspiring nonetheless.
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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope mission — Live updates
Read the latest news about NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.
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Over 500 million years ago, weird complex creatures emerged on Earth. Scientists now think they know why
Earth’s magnetic field was once 30 times weaker than it is today. This change may have played a pivotal role in the blossoming of complex life, new research found.
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Boeing forced to scrub first crewed Starliner launch to the space station
Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft blasted off with NASA astronauts onboard for the first time on Monday, kicking off a high-stakes test flight to the space station.
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Scientists document remarkable sperm whale 'phonetic alphabet'
The various species of whales inhabiting Earth's oceans employ different types of vocalizations to communicate. Sperm whales, the largest of the toothed whales, communicate using bursts of clicking noises - called codas - sounding a bit like Morse code. A new analysis of years of vocalizations by sperm whales in the eastern Caribbean has found that their system of communication is more sophisticated than previously known, exhibiting a complex internal structure replete with a "phonetic alphabe
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Scientists are learning the basic building blocks of sperm whale language after years of effort
Scientists studying the sperm whales that live around the Caribbean island of Dominica have described for the first time the basic elements of how they might be talking to each other, in an effort that could one day help better protect them. Like many whales and dolphins, sperm whales are highly social mammals and communicate by squeezing air through their respiratory systems to make strings of rapid clicks that can sound like an extremely loud zipper underwater. The clicks are also used as a
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See this galaxy's bright center? It's home to a voracious supermassive black hole
To launch Black Hole Week, NASA released this new Hubble image of spiral galaxy NGC 4951.
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Black hole collision 'alerts' could notify astronomers within 30 seconds of detection
Astronomers will be alerted to gravitational waves faster than ever before as LIGO and other detectors "listen" to a universal symphony.
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NASA simulation mimics flying into black hole's "point of no return"
The visualization, produced on a NASA supercomputer, allows users to experience flight towards a supermassive black hole.
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Fantasy Baseball Waiver Wire: Jonny DeLuca leads intriguing pickups
Fantasy baseball analyst Andy Behrens offers up a fresh batch of midweek pickups to consider, led by a former Dodgers prospect.
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Warner Bros. Discovery 'hopeful' for NBA deal as earnings miss estimates amid linear TV struggles
Warner Bros. Discovery reported first quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday. Here's what to know.
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