Astronomers have detected a “planet killer” asteroid passing through Earth’s orbit and could slowly approach us centuries from now. With a diameter of about 1.1 km to 2.3 km, the asteroid, named…
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NASA’s InSight Mars lander only has weeks to live
The end is near for NASA’s earthquake hunter. So much dust is choking the solar power supply to NASA’s InSight lander that the Mars mission, which is operating well past its expiration…
How the planets can be an anti-aging formula for the stars
An artist’s illustration shows a gas giant planet (lower right) orbiting close to its host star (left), with another star in the distance (upper right). The two stars are themselves in orbit…
‘Carbon time bomb’: climate crisis threatens to destroy Congo’s peatlands
Congo’s peatlands are a huge carbon ‘ticking time bomb’ that could be triggered by the climate crisis, research has found. Peatlands shifted from storing carbon to releasing it into the atmosphere when…
Universe’s Oldest Star Clusters Revealed | Sciences-Environment
A team of Canadian astronomers, including experts from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Toronto, used the James Webb Telescope…
Why do fish look down when they swim
The researchers collected video data from a wooded stream with a sandy substrate and low to medium flow. Credit: E. Alexander/Northwestern University Just as you may look down the sidewalk while walking,…
A cleaner, more efficient way to produce single-photon emitters
Introduction of organic color centers into airborne nanotubes using a vapor phase reaction. a A schematic of a functionalized SWCNT suspended through a trench on a Si substrate. b A scanning electron…
500 million year old fossils reveal the answer to an evolutionary riddle
An exceptionally well-preserved collection of fossils unearthed in China’s eastern province of Yunnan has helped scientists solve an age-old riddle of the evolution of life on earth, revealing what the first animals…
Hubble tension: is cosmology in crisis?
The universe is expanding. This is a well-established fact that scientists have known for nearly a century. It was first proposed by Russian physicist Alexander Friedmann in 1922 and again independently in…
The career prospects I bring back to college after a year at Google
A stint at Google showed Olivier Müller how to make the right choices for himself rather than worrying too much about what others think.Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty In the summer, I left Google…