Hurricane Lee Is Moving Up to New England and Coastal Canada
Hurricane Lee is still churning out in the Atlantic Ocean. Since the storm formed earlier this month, it has not made landfall over the contiguous U.S. But it has continued…
Scientists Have Discovered Some New Little Guys
Scientists in Japan say they’ve discovered some new little guys—four new species of insect-like creatures called springtails, to be more specific. The animals were found living in decayed wood across…
Newly Discovered Spiders Get Star Trek-Inspired Names
From L to R: A male R. kirk, a female R. spock, and a male R. mccoy.Image: Alexander Sánchez-Ruiz & Alexandre B. Bonaldo, used under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0…
Putin Promises to Help North Korea Launch Its Satellites
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un shake hands during their meeting on September 13 at the Vostochny cosmodrome outside the city of Tsiolkovsky.Photo: Vladimir Smirnov…
Space Kombucha Could Help Sustain Future Colonies on Mars
A microscopic view of cells in space, where the red fluorescence shows photosynthetic pigments, while white-blue indicates the nucleoids – the cell’s control centers.Image: University of Rome and DLR If…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Adjusts Course Ahead of Historic Asteroid Sample Return
This view of asteroid Bennu ejecting particles from its surface was created by combining two images taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on January 19, 2019.Image: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed Martin A…
Heat Pumps Really Bring the Heat During Those Cold Dark Winter Months, Study Says
Heating and cooling homes can be expensive, but thankfully, there are heat pumps. And these electric home coolers and heaters are efficient home systems even in extremely cold temperatures, new…
Webb Telescope Sees Tantalizing Molecular Signals on Possible Water World
The Webb Space Telescope recently turned its focus to a nearby exoplanet and found that it may be a Hycean world, or a world completely covered in a single global…
New Analysis of 1970s Moonquakes Reveals an Unexpected Origin
Sensors placed on the surface of the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission picked up a mysterious tremor, one that regularly occurred as the Sun rose to its peak position…
Microsoft Is Using a Hell of a Lot of Water to Flood the World With AI
As artificial intelligence is increasingly developing and data centers are erected to further this tech, it’s becoming clear that AI has a water usage problem. Warning! Microsoft Wants ChatGPT to…