To avoid being snagged in the talons of a ravenous owl, the greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis) mimics the intense buzz of an angry hornet and thus scares off its potential predators. This is th… [+5355 chars]
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A fateful day some 66 million years ago, a 7.5-mile-wide (12 kilometer) space rock slams into Earth, setting off a series of events that ended the age of dinosaurs. From the dinosaurs’ perspective, i… [+3315 chars]
The path to the Emerald City might travel along the ocean's bottom. The crew of the Exploration Vessel Nautilus caught sight of a strange-looking formation while studying an area called Liliuokalani … [+1395 chars]
What lies at the center of our galaxy? Decades of calculations and data point to a supermassive black hole about 4 million times more massive than our sun. But we've never seen it. That could be abou… [+3516 chars]
SpinLaunch, the company testing a catapult-like system that sends payloads to space with almost no rocket propellant, has shared footage from one of its test launches. The video clip (below) shows S… [+2368 chars]
Until a few decades ago, no human being had ever been away from gravity’s loving embrace. As the era of space exploration dawns, it’s still unclear how long stretches without gravity will affect the … [+2513 chars]
When Russia sent its armed forces into Ukraine amidst accusations of Nazism and NATO aggression, it left most of its credibility behind. What’s left of its credibility is in shreds as Russia lurches … [+7193 chars]
While the Cumbre Vieja eruption in La Palma, Spain, is said to have cost EUR 843 million, thankfully, only one casualty was reported. While the emergency response is celebrated, the event has sparked… [+3389 chars]
The emission of greenhouse gases threatens the global environment, and scientists around the world are increasingly committed to addressing this issue. While many research groups focus on carbon diox… [+1760 chars]
May 9 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith As a result of global warming, the world’s ocean has been subjected to the consistent loss of its year-to-year memory, according to a study reported and co-authored … [+3694 chars]
There are many mysteries on Mars, and scientists might have just solved two of them. Mars sports vast regions of frost that can only be seen in the infrared range of the spectrum, not in visible l… [+3156 chars]
