LONDON — When the sun reaches its highest point above the meridian line that travels north to south from London’s 351-year-old Royal Greenwich Observatory, it is noon Greenwich Mean Time, a tangible, physical reference point that helped establish the world’s time zone system. Measuring time has long been based on the Earth’s spin and the … Read more
Christina Koch in January 2026, at the Kennedy Space Center. Photo: Charles Boyer Christina Koch, who flew Orion around the Moon after its launch from the Kennedy Space Center in April, is trading her flying status for a leadership position at NASA headquarters. The agency announced that she will become acting deputy chief engineer on … Read more
The emerging deep-sea mining industry could end up in flames after researchers discovered that some rocks collected from the ocean floor can heat up and even spontaneously combust once they surface and are exposed to air. In a recent paper published in Scientific Reports, researchers from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) warn that some … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Researchers in Italy have discovered a potential association between the common erectile dysfunction drug Cialis (tadalafil) and muscle regeneration. The study, published in the journal Molecular Biology Reports, tested the drug on mouse muscle cells in a laboratory. Over a seven-day period, the researchers observed how the … Read more
A spectacular cloud of “space jelly” was visible in parts of the Southeast and mid-Atlantic Tuesday morning after a SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch, powered by a Falcon 9 rocket, carried the Cargo Dragon spacecraft. The spacecraft, which has made three previous trips to orbit, carries more than three tons of scientific … Read more
In many water-scarce regions of the world, the signs are obvious. Just look at the dramatically reduced Colorado River or the parched bed of the Danube. Much less striking is the global water crisis unfolding under our feet, although it is serious. This is according to a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of … Read more
In the circle of life, nothing just disappears, especially something as massive as an elephant, which can weigh up to seven tons during its 70-year lifespan. Research published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences details how elephant carcasses shaped the savannah until nearly a decade after their deaths, finding that they … Read more
London — When the sun reaches its highest point on the meridian line that travels north to south from the 351-year-old Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, it is noon, Greenwich Mean Time, a tangible, physical reference point that helped establish the world’s time zone system. Timekeeping has long been based on the Earth’s spin and … Read more
The origami variant called kirigami (‘cut paper’ in Japanese) also starts with a sheet of paper, but allows you to cut the paper to increase the number of shapes you can create. It is this technique that [Matthew Lim] It is used to create a series of three-dimensional designs that can be converted between a … Read more
They don’t produce anything like the torrent of “shooting stars” associated with August’s Perseids or December’s Geminids, but the Taurid meteor showers have something else going for them: fireballs. The Taurids are famous for occasionally producing exceptionally bright, slow-moving meteors that can dramatically streak across the night sky from September to December. As an added … Read more