Newswise — The North Pacific Blob, a marine heatwave that began in late 2013 and continued through 2015, was the largest and longest-lasting marine heatwave on record. A new study using data collecte… [+4190 chars]
Finding a new, high-temperature, off-axis hydrothermal vent field on the floor of the Pacific Ocean at 2,550 meters (8,366 feet) down could change scientists' understanding of the impact such seafloo… [+2189 chars]
For a long time, our view of Ceres was fuzzy, according to a geoscientist. A dwarf planet and the largest body found in the asteroid belt, the region between Jupiter and Mars, speckled with hundreds … [+3885 chars]
The Space Launch System will take off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, USA. You must have watched Shaun the Sheep, a popular animated character. During our childhood, the show had us comple… [+2335 chars]
Bioscientists from Durham University, UK and Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Germany have predicted in their latest research that bird communities will change worldwide in 2080 … [+4150 chars]
Over 140 documents from notebooks and reports that feature first-person accounts of glacial landscapes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are now available to the public through the CU Digit… [+3603 chars]
Using data from the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) and ESA's Gaia satellite, astronomers have detected 21 new high-probability extremely low-mass white dwarfs. The… [+3252 chars]
The Perseid meteor shower, one of the most anticipated and popular night-sky shows of the year, is likely to be upstaged by August's full moon. The Perseids are one of the strongest meteor showers o… [+3270 chars]