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Awaiting the next historic solar storm
Researchers uncovering eyewitness accounts of powerful solar storms of the past say we should expect at least one super-storm from the sun per century.
March 31, 2021
Evidence of a brand new physics?
Physicists at the LHCb Collaboration at CERN have found particles not behaving the way they should according to the guiding theory of particle physics. Could it be evidence of a brand new physics?
March 28, 2021
Space debris lights up the sky over Pacific Northwest
A SpaceX rocket launched on March 4 that failed to perform a deorbit burn reentered Earth's atmosphere on March 25, 2021. It created a startling light display over Seattle and Portland.
March 26, 2021
How to make beneficial insects welcome in your garden
Ladybugs, lacewings, spiders, and bees can help your garden grow. How to help these beneficial insects.
March 26, 2021
Milky Way mosaic took 12 years, 1250 hours
Through 12 years of photographing and stitching together individual astrophotography images, Finnish astrophotographer J-P Mestavainio has created a 1.7 gigapixel panorama of our Milky Way galaxy.
March 24, 2021
Air pollution returning to pre-Covid levels
In early 2020, satellite data showed a decline in air pollution coinciding with Covid lockdowns. One year later, as lockdown restrictions loosen and regular activity resumes, air pollution is bouncing back to pre-Covid levels.
March 24, 2021
Long trip to Mars may cause astronauts to misread emotions
A study here on Earth simulating the weightless conditions of space travel showed that the longer the participants were exposed to a low-gravity environment, the more they perceived facial expressions as angry.
March 24, 2021
Billions of cicadas may be coming soon to trees near you
One of the largest groups of 17-year cicadas, Brood X, last emerged from underground in 2004. The next generation will begin arriving in April 2021.
March 16, 2021
Small temperature increase can cause bigger wildfires, more often
A new study shows that just a half a degree of global temperature rise markedly increases fire danger on the most widely inhabited continents.
March 14, 2021
