Weather prediction will always have a worthy adversary
Why should there be a strict limit, however, on predicting a day’s weather? How can human progress and understanding — having eradicated smallpox, built supercomputers, and sent humanity to the…
Why more heat will pummel California
Another blast of heat will sting California. The National Weather Service expects much of the fire-ravaged state will experience unusually hot early September temperatures over Labor Day weekend and beyond,…
Hubble captures the remains of a dead star, a gorgeous orange space ribbon
Space is pretty. As the Hubble Space Telescope nears the end of its long-running mission, photo releases like this one are a constant reminder of how much we benefit from…
‘Microsoft Flight Simulator’ gives players a close look at Hurricane Laura
As the destructive Hurricane Laura has been making it way up from the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday and Thursday, players in the recently released Microsoft Flight Simulator noticed that they…
Hurricane Laura has strengthened into a beast
Hurricane Laura intensified into a potent storm over Tuesday night — and then continued strengthening. The large cyclone packed 140 mph winds as of Wednesday afternoon. Now officially a major…
NASA: Dwarf planet Ceres is an ocean world
Image: nasa Ryan Whitwam for Extreme Tech 2020-08-26 13:35:38 UTC Scientists considered Pluto to be a planet when it was discovered, but it later became the first dwarf planet. It’s…
California fires are supercharged by this potent factor
Potent fires have been erupting in California since mid-August. That’s when a lightning siege of over 13,000 strikes, from passing storm systems, started igniting the land. The siege sparked some…
Fat bear is already so big that he has trouble walking
The struggle is real. The wild bears of Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska — who are livestreamed on the explore.org webcams — have grown impressively fat this summer,…
NASA celebrates 15 years of Mars orbiter with stunning photos
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) recently passed its 15th anniversary leaving Earth behind to observe the red planet, and NASA is celebrating by recapping some of the robot’s best images.…
This high tech shelter keeps you cool without an A/C
A team of researchers from the University of British Columbia, Princeton University, the University of California, Berkeley and the Singapore-ETH Centre have created a bus stop-like pavilion that can cool…