A groundbreaking study warns of an impending mass extinction due to unprecedented global warming that could endanger almost all mammals in about 250 million years. A study predicts a mass extinction of mammals in 250 million years due to extreme heat from the formation of a supercontinent. The research highlights the deadly combination of warmer…
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By University of St. Andrews 25 September 2023 The collision of two huge galaxy clusters, including El Gordo, challenges the predictions of the Lambda-cold dark matter (ΛCDM) cosmological model, suggesting a need to reassess our understanding of cosmic structure formation. A collision of two massive clusters of galaxies when the universe was half its current…
Scientists are talking to plants through light-based messages to see if they can warn them of impending dangers and trigger defense mechanisms that can mitigate the damage. Working with the tobacco plant Nicotiana benthamianawere they able to activate the plant’s immune response using light as a stimulus in an achievement that could revolutionize our relationship…
While NASA’s VERITAS Venus mission remains on hold, team members have been perfecting technologies on Earth in places that resemble the Hell Planet. Early last month, one such field campaign took the mission’s science team to a barren and rocky region of Iceland. There they studied rocks and surfaces near an asset volcano called Askja….
TARRAGONA, Spain — Neanderthals were among the world’s earliest seafood aficionados, challenging long-standing stereotypes that paint them as primitive cavemen, a recent study explains. While seafood today graces the tables of many high-end restaurants, it appears that our ancient relatives enjoyed these delicacies around 90,000 years ago. Excavations south of Lisbon in a cave called…
The asteroid sample collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has just experienced its second landing in just two days. The sample — a cache of dirt and gravel that the probe captured from asteroid Bennu in October 2020 — landed in the Utah desert on Sunday (Sept. 24), thrilling mission team members and scientists around the…
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched 21 new satellites from California into low Earth orbit early Monday morning. MINNEAPOLIS — While Minnesota’s night sky is famous for stunning displays of the Northern Lights, you can see a celestial spectacle of the man-made variety if you look in the right place at the right time. We’re talking…
MINNEAPOLIS — While Minnesota’s night sky is famous for stunning displays of the Northern Lights, you can see a celestial spectacle of the man-made variety if you look in the right place at the right time. We’re talking about Starlink, a series of thousands of satellites launched into the sky by Space X that orbit…
That most comprehensive atlas of so-called ‘adventure circles’ to date was published on Monday, a new study reports. In the atlas, the researchers documented 263 new fecircle sites in 15 countries and on three continents, including sites in Madagascar and Asia. Alas, none have yet been officially documented in North America. “Our study provides evidence…
