Follow Us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter Lucid dreaming, in which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming and can sometimes influence the trajectory of the dream, is a skill that can be honed, a new study finds. And researchers found that doing this is surprisingly … Read more
The Moon is starting to look a little less full as we move through the Waning Gibbous phase, and the third quarter Moon is next on the lunar calendar. What is the moon phase today? As of Friday, October 30, NASA’s Daily Moon Guide tracker tells us that the Moon is in the Waning Gibbous … Read more
The world’s worst nuclear disaster didn’t just affect humans. When the Chernobyl nuclear power plant experienced a catastrophic explosion on April 26, 1986, radioactive fallout forced Soviet authorities to abandon the area, declaring a giant exclusion zone covering some 2,600 square kilometers (1,000 square miles). Since then, studies have shown that animals came to thrive … Read more
Finding the shortest route between two locations is something that navigation apps like Google Maps do every day. Behind the scenes, sophisticated algorithms analyze road networks and intersections to identify efficient paths. But what if a computer needed to calculate the shortest distance between every possible pair of locations on a huge network? That challenge … Read more
Remember that spectacular meteor that lit up the blue skies of Massachusetts on May 30, crashing into Cape Cod Bay and setting off a sonic boom across the region? A group of scientists and researchers from around the world have reconstructed the origins of the meteor, compiling an extraordinary amount of information not only about … Read more
Shelest already had the ISM dust map. The plan was to combine that map with a map of the ultraviolet radiation that heats the ISM. By chance, Bialy located one such map while striking up a conversation at a conference with astrophysicist Troy Porter of Stanford University, who had made a map but had not … Read more
A pink meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in 2022 has been identified as a 4.1 billion-year-old piece of the Red Planet, a NASA study determined. The nearly two-pound meteorite was found in Mali. It was named Teghaza 001, after the salt plain where it was discovered, NASA said in a news release. Studying the … Read more
NASA’s furthest spacecraft scared mission control when it inexplicably went silent and missed two days of planned checks. The scathing incident occurred just two weeks ago, when the Deep Space Network did not receive a call from Voyager 1 on either October 18 or 19. But before the agency could send repair commands, the spacecraft, … Read more
Astronomers say they may have found a new dwarf planet in the far reaches of our Solar System, beyond the orbit of Pluto. Called 2026 ED138, the potential dwarf planet is big and bright, astronomers say, and if confirmed, would be one of the largest dwarf planets ever seen in that part of the Solar … Read more
Deep in a limestone cave in southeastern France lie some of the oldest works of art ever made by man. Chauvet Cave is fragile and important enough to history that officials keep the location secret and close the entrance behind a large steel door. Researchers have now found a safe way to study the paintings … Read more