
- Ars Technica
- Jan 15, 2021
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Scientists can't agree on why these hills in the Russian Arctic ripple with stripes....
Space freaks me out, y'all....
Waves and creases along the banks of Siberia's Markha River appear to look more like stripes in recently published images, yet it remains unknown if the geological......
Having dominated the planet's surface for hundreds of millions of years, dinosaur diversity came to a dramatic conclusion some 66 million years ago at the hot end of an asteroid impact with what is today Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula....
Lightning strikes that we see here on the surface are only one kind of storm phenomenon, and others happen in places we can’t see from the ground. Lightning also produces incredible sights in the space above the clouds, extending into the atmosphere in color…...
How a single cell slime mold makes smart decisions without a central nervous system. Having a memory of past events enables us to make smarter decisions about the future. Researchers at the Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) and …...
Astra, the Alameda-based space launch startup that recently announced its intent to go public via a SPAC merger, has secured a contract to deliver six cube satellites to space on behalf of NASA. Astra stands to be paid $7.95 million by the agency for fulfilme…...
Although its main mission is staring at the Sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will take any opportunity to send data back home to Earth....
A study released this week shows how the tyrannosaurus consumed different resources at multiple stages of growth. Modern meat-eating mammals can easily be arranged in a chart showing average adult …...
A problem with another one of the eight prevalves in the Artemis 1 Core Stage…...
The long-awaited launch of Amazonia-1 is a major test for Brazilian science...
It was the brightest supernova in nearly 400 years when it lit the skies of the southern hemisphere in February 1987. Supernova 1987A – the explosion of a blue supergiant star in the nearby mini-galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud – amazed the astronom…...
Hayley Arceneaux, child cancer survivor who became a PA at St. Jude's where she was treated, is now to be the youngest person to enter space....
When a muscle grows, because its owner is still growing too or has started exercising regularly, some of the stem cells in this muscle develop into new muscle cells. The same thing happens when an injured muscle starts to heal. At the same time, however, the …...
In June 2019, the automated survey ATLAS (Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System) found a new object moving against the background stars. Initially called 2019 LD2, it was thought to be an asteroid orbiting the Sun out near Jupiter. However, an amateur…...
Seismologists at Caltech working with optics experts at Google have developed a method to use existing underwater telecommunication cables to detect earthquakes. The technique could lead to improved earthquake and tsunami warning systems around the world....
It is increasingly likely that a NASA astronaut will fly on a Soyuz mission to the space station in April as NASA finalizes an agreement with Roscosmos....
Superb lyrebirds are among nature's best mimics, have the most developed vocal organ of all songbirds and copy other birds' songs, animals and even chainsaws....