Bumblebees blocking the way from your house to your car? No problem. New research suggests an interesting and hugely entertaining way to ward them off. Give the creatures a little wooden ball…
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Is there evidence for the multiverse? (The Galaxy Report)
Posted on November 1, 2022 in Science Today’s stories include scientists who just discovered a whole new way to measure the time of a spotted ‘planet killer’ asteroid, how random events have…
Testing a fundamental force: New study advances our understanding of the universe
Proton spin structure function g2 depending on the invariant mass O. Credit: Natural Physics (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41567-022-01781-y Research by a team of physicists from the University of New Hampshire is helping to…
NASA prepares to say “farewell” to the InSight spacecraft – NASA’s InSight Mars lander
Comparison of InSight selfies Using its robotic arm’s camera, NASA’s InSight lander took these selfies on December 6, 2018 – just 10 days after landing on Mars – and April 24, 2022….
Dramatic image captures ‘ghostly’ aftermath of giant star’s death 11,000 years ago
The space organizations didn’t let us forget that it was Halloween on Monday. The NASA Exoplanets Twitter account has become NASA Hexoplanets and NASA Goddard was NASA Ghoul. The James Webb Space…
NASA prepares to say ‘farewell’ to the InSight spacecraft
Preserve data The most important of the InSight mission’s final steps is to store its wealth of data and make it accessible to researchers around the world. Data from the lander provided…
NASA’s first test of its next-generation heat shield is postponed until at least November 9 | Engadget
The friction exerted during atmospheric re-entry is enough to turn spacecraft into glowing scoria comets if not properly attenuated – but otherwise. The Space Shuttle, when still in service, was designed to…
Evidence of Mars’ Ancient Ocean Increases Likelihood of Past Life
New maps of Mars’ topography provide evidence for the existence of an ocean on the planet in its ancient history, with implications for its ability to once support life. A map of…
NASA’s first test of its next-generation heat shield is postponed until at least November 9
The friction exerted during atmospheric re-entry is enough to turn spacecraft into glowing scoria comets if not properly attenuated – but otherwise. The Space Shuttle, when still in service, was designed to…
Have Supermassive Black Holes Collapsed Directly From Giant Gas Clouds? It could depend on the magnetic fields
This artist’s impression shows a possible germ for the formation of a supermassive black hole. Credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss About half a century ago, astronomers realized that the powerful radio source coming from…