Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the cutting edge of science and technology Scientists say the planet Mercury has been actively shrinking over the billions of years it has orbited the Sun, a process that is leaving cracked wrinkles like an old apple. At just one-third the size of Earth, it … Read more
An international team of scientists say they have detected an intriguing signal that could hint at evidence of dark matter, offering a clue that could bring the mystery of the elusive substance one step closer to a solution. Dark matter makes up about 85% of all matter in the universe and is about five times … Read more
AI-based protein structure models could be improved by incorporating data from pharmaceutical companies. Credit: Miyako Nakamura/Getty For drug discovery, protein folding models like AlphaFold have a data problem: There aren’t enough of them in public databases. Some scientists argue that improving the performance of these AI-based tools will require additional data that provides examples of … Read more
James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble discover 27 puzzling new objects orbiting the Sun far beyond Neptune SpaceNASA’s Hubble and Webb find distant Solar System objects that ‘remember’ the past NASA Science (.gov) UVic researchers use tiny icy bodies to study planet formation Sooke News Mirror27 tiny city-sized trans-Neptunian objects discovered, surprise astronomers with unexpected … Read more
Archaeologists in North Dakota have unearthed the first set of footprints of a running T-Rex, after a teacher led them to the “incredibly rare” find. The four giant three-toed footprints of a massive 66-million-year-old T-Rex cover 23 feet and were found in the Hell Creek Formation in the state’s Badlands, The Sun reported Friday. Science … Read more
The smallest planet in the solar system has undergone significant shrinkage, consuming 30 percent more than scientists had previously estimated. Mercury, which orbits closest to the Sun, is a small rocky world that has continuously leaked heat into space since its formation 4.5 billion years ago. As its heavy iron core cools, the entire planet … Read more
Why our solar system couldn’t have had a super Earth, a type of world that abounds throughout the galaxy, has long vexed astronomers. Now, a new study proposes an intriguing explanation: Maybe the sun ate it. Mutlu Yildiz, a professor of astronomy at Ege University in Turkey, used computer simulations to turn back the clock … Read more
SpaceX launched three telecommunications satellites into orbit today (September 13) in a historic mission for the company. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida today at 2:49 pm EDT (1849 GMT), carrying the final three satellites for Luxembourg-based SES’s O3b mPOWER constellation. It was the 700th mission to … Read more
The hole in the ground east of Flagstaff is nearly a mile wide and deep enough to swallow a 50-story building, and in 1903 the official position of the United States government was that it was a volcano. That was the verdict of Grove Karl Gilbert, chief geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey and one … Read more
It may be difficult to spot the Moon right now, but that won’t last long. As the new lunar cycle begins, a little more will become visible each night. What is the moon phase today? As of Sunday, September 13, NASA’s Daily Moon Guide tracker tells us that the Moon is in the Crescent Moon … Read more